Members of a stigmatized group may protect global feelings of self-worth by: (1) attributing negative feedback to prejudice; (2) comparing outcomes with those of their ingroup; and (3) selectively devaluing areas in which their group does poorly and valuing dimensions in which their group excels. (SLD)

Argues that children's writers have a responsibility to create an early awareness of such issues as race, terrorism, poverty, and other disasters of human society. Suggests that if children learn to confront life as it is, they may learn to strive to make it better. (MM)

Discusses risk assessment, including risk assessment as a modeling process, models and social values, political decision making, the public, and risk assessment techniques in the biology classroom. (MKR)

By skillfully structuring volunteer assignments, organizations can be successful in persuading a significant number of retirees to accept assignments and to devote a minimum of two days a week to those assignments. (Author/JOW)

Asserts that the strengths perspective, which posits that the strengths and resources of people and their environment should be the central focus of the helping process in social work, can be used to reformulate problem-focused, pathology-centered approaches to social policy development. Discusses methods for initiating this integration. (JPS)

Presents a script for a 1-act play about a 17-year-old girl whose mother neglects her and her alcoholic absentee father. Relates how the protagonist, Tara, becomes pregnant by a classmate who she barely knows, and plans to leave home to raise her child alone after graduating high school. (PA)

Paulo Freire's keynote address and subsequent talks with participants at the 1994 International Conference on Experiential Learning in Washington, D.C., reveal his frustration and anger that so many do not have formal education and are dying of hunger. He suggests that we must have hope to emancipate ourselves from those who abuse power. (JOW)

Examined the worldviews of 33 activists serving as liaisons between their organizations and British Columbia's Save Georgia Strait Alliance to determine whether variations in their interpretations of sustainability could be associated with their experience, or lack of experience, in other social movements. Results suggest positive potential of…

Discusses the role and function of the Center for Applied Humanities at the University of South Florida. Pays particular attention to programs relating literary perspectives to social and psychological problems. (RS)

Focuses on the importance of nurses working to expand service delivery in schools by highlighting the crisis that exists in the current health care and school systems and by describing efforts and challenges in the development of comprehensive school-based programs. (Author)

Traces the decline of rhetoric and the underlying social changes that hastened its fall from grace. Argues the need for a reconstructed rhetoric. Creates a context for considering a visual rhetoric. Suggests that abstraction and scientific reductionism fail to address issues of human agency. Cites five examples of social or cultural problems that…

Discusses narcissism, child-rearing practices that lead to child-centeredness, and social insensitivity and their implications for instruction. Considers moral education and the moral sense; cultivating the moral sense through technology; and idea and product technologies. Also includes a commentary on the article by Jonathan Ross and a response…

Utilizes fathers (N=3) and their developmentally disabled children, who ranged in age from 2 years 10 months to 4 years 5 months, to explore the impact of parent training. Also examines child compliance and inappropriate behaviors. Parent training resulted in desirable changes on a range of target behaviors. Discusses implications of the findings.…

Political education is back on the agenda, following the Labour Party's election in Britain and the end of Communist one-party rule in Central/Eastern Europe. This paper explains the formal teaching of political literacy to students in Scottish secondary schools through the Modern Studies curriculum. Contains 37 references. (MLH)

Presents a content analysis of the depiction of abortion and adoption in 62 marriage and family textbooks. Findings show that books devote more attention to abortion than to adoption and cast abortion as a macro, societal issue while depicting adoption as a micro issue. (Author/MKA)