This report presents 5 papers that comprised the program sponsored by the College of Education during the 175th anniversary celebration of the University of Tennessee (U.T.). The papers concern: (1) university life in a global village; (2) an organizational approach to understanding student behavior; (3) relationships between U.T. faculty and…

Written by experts in the field of geriatrics, this book is composed of a group of papers. Among the subjects covered in the papers are the news media, the values of the later years, the sciences and aging, and a history of the Home. Several of the articles are written by ministers connected with the religiously oriented facility. Additional…

This report of the Federal Council for Science and Technology Committee on Intergovernmental Science Relations contains the efforts of the committee in attempting to achieve the following objectives: (1) to inventory and evaluate the impact of federal policies and programs on the scientific and technological activities of state and local…

The eight books examined in this study were the most recent editions of: Observing People and Places; Exploring Our Needs; At Home in Our Land; The Social Sciences: Concepts and Values; Communities and Social Needs; Learning About Communities: One Plus One; Investigating Man's World: Local Studies; and, Communities and their Needs. A group of six…

The contention that the future of sport and physical education can be shaped by its history is the foundation of this discussion. The paper begins with a brief mention of six social forces at work and ten concomitant professional concerns. It then presents Heilbroner's concept of the future as history; discusses the idea of progress; suggests some…

Among the problems facing the black aged are less income resulting from less education and less choice in work opportunities, housing, and negative self attitudes. (AM)

Georg Simmel's influence in the area of general theoretical orientations and with respect to research traditions on the stranger and social distance is reviewed. (Author/DE)

Reviews various Danish legislative actions leading up to the lifting of the ban on pornography, and discusses possible consequences of such liberalization by analyzing police statistics from a five year period. (MH)

Supports teacher organizations for improving education, teachers' and society's attitudes toward the educational system. (LS)

Discusses the need for intelligent management of geologic and biologic resources. (MLH)

Data extracted from the 1960 and 1970 censuses and from a 1976 community survey indicate that community of residence is a crucial factor in shaping attitudes towards social problems. For this reason, community should be viewed as an independent moral order through which individuals attempt to decode the larger society. (Author/WI)

Discusses William Branch's play "In Splendid Error," a portrayal of events in the lives of Frederick Douglass and John Brown; points out that such plays can increase audiences' awareness of social and racial injustices. (GW)

Discusses social issues outside science education that directly affect policies, curricula and instruction in science. The role of personal values and cultural paradigms in social change, limits to growth and the role of science education in the emerging ecological society are among the ideas discussed. (HM)

The waste of human intellectual resources resulting from the dynamics of early nutritional deprivation is a serious social and public health problem. An undernourished child develops more slowly, demanding and receiving less attention than a well-nourished child, and is thus less able to compete in school and in society in general. (Author/GC)

Reports that social class indicators explain relatively little variance in environmental attitudes accounted for by "class." Education is subordinate to age as a predictor of environmental attitudes and much of the gross effect of education is the result of the generally high educational backgrounds of young adults. (Author/MA)