Mentally retarded citizens have been denied their human and civil rights, not only by the public, but by professionals--including social workers. The author claims that most programs for the mentally retarded are, at best, dehumanizing. Professionals have an ethical obligation to refuse to refer children to such programs. (Author)

Black adolescent parents need counsel from social workers who are able to intervene with a discerning knowledge of concepts, such as neocolonialism, survival, and liberation, that are important to them and to the black community. (Author)

A unit surveys human rights in history and the present day, outlines case studies and class activities, and suggests source materials for teachers and students. (Author/KM)

The theoretical and practical issues involved in teaching peace studies are debated and modes of action suggested for the classroom teacher. (Author/KM)

This article describes in detail how the inquiry teacher performs in the classroom and what the possible alternatives in the process are. The major goal is to clarify the components of inquiry teaching and to indicate the exact junctures where major decisions need to be made. The operations subsumed under instructional decision are spelled out and…

Maintains that opportunities for equal education are inextricably related to other societal factors such as health, welfare, employment, and housing; suggests that equitable distribution of society's finite resources, diversification of educational programs and systems, desegregation, and a redefinition of the Federal government's role in…

Reviews Canadian anti-poverty programs according to which of five dimensions is dominant in their activities--biological and demographic, geographical and ecological, structural, psychological and cultural, and/or poverty-as-social-problem. (JM)

Student answers about lying revealed that too many young people live in a world which encourages dishonesty, by failure to structure a social environment which eliminates the need to lie. Students expressed the need for learning to live moral lives; responsibility for making this possible may rest on the schools. (Author/JB)

Use of the format of a congressional hearing, instead of traditional teaching methods, appears to enhance direct student involvment, interest, and knowledge. Described are the social setting and procedures, research protocol, analysis and evaluation, and conclusions and limitations of the experiment. (KM)

Author attempts to evaluate the possibilities or agreement that might be reached in interpreting the various aims of moral education. (RK)

Article implies that the gathering pessimism concerning the beneficent impacts - actual and potential - of technology applied to social purposes might gradually be reversed by a more efficient and socially responsive application of technology. (Author)

Today's white researchers are perhaps counterproductive in black communities not because they are white, but because they are poorly trained: equally if not more important are the values which the researcher acquires as a result of his professional training. (Author/JM)

Describes the development of a career as a drug dealer of a black ghetto-raised youth, including the changing perspective in which he orients himself with reference to others, and the patterned sequence of social positions he came to occupy. (Author/JM)