Nonprofit Prophets is a program in which teams of California high school students select social or environmental topics and collaborate with nonprofit organizations to develop mutually beneficial World Wide Web sites. Discusses the technology, particularly interactive videoconferencing, used to train and support those involved in the project.…

Describes the summer program at St. Agnes School, in Kentucky, which puts on musicals about social issues. Focuses on the theme of this summer's musical, which is the futility and danger of violence. Discusses the awareness that the summer program musical has brought to the children. (AJL)

Postsecondary institutions are in a unique position to help alleviate social problems. Service learning, which integrates community service and academic study, is an active pedagogy of involvement that takes students beyond monocultural campus settings to multicultural community contexts. A University of Montana teacher-education class that places…

Analyzes how the figure of the child has been used to authorize a series of boundaries that have been constituted the limit points of educational theories or philosophies. Concludes that the meaning-space that the child can occupy has been important to depicting Utopian and cosmological imaginings at different historical moments. (Contains 37…

Focuses on teaching new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, within deviance or social problems courses. Provides information about the conceptions and theories of deviance. Includes three illustrations of how to use deviant religions in a deviance course and offers insights into teaching religion as deviance. Includes references. (CMK)

Recommends incorporating the works of author Anzia Yezierska into high school and college courses in order to increase students' multicultural awareness and tolerance of diversity. Notes that in five novels and many short stories, she raises cultural, gender, and religious issues still relevant today. Themes in her works include obedience to…

Looks at male promiscuity and the gender bias that holds females accountable for sexual activity. Examines communication patterns, family structure, and other factors. Argues that family therapists can alter family communication patterns, redefine boundaries, and promote healthy parental involvement to make an impact on the issue of male sexual…

Reviews the vision of nineteenth century geographers who believed geography education should promote cooperation and tolerance. Explores why these value-laden methods were forsaken. Reports on geographers who call for geography to address social issues. Argues that social justice be adopted and focus on the constructivist methods of Paulo Freire.…

Examines ways in which policy is constructed in a UK multi-agency partnership established to challenge the exclusion of children from primary schools. Considers current social-exclusion policies focusing on problems and dilemmas of multi-agency partnerships. Drawing on data from one study, examines partnership in one specific context, combining…

Reviews statistics on the illiteracy problem in Guatemala. Offers a personal account of an immersion trip to the country with a group of American Catholic youth ministers. Describes the work of the Society for the Development of the Integrated Guatemalan Family. Discusses Guatemala's social problems and educational needs. (PAA)

Discusses ways in which early childhood teachers can find their credo of education and credo of life. (BB)

Reports on a movement conducted by social workers to decrease the infection of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome by changing human behavior through public education. Stresses that the focus is to draw attention to behavior modification. (RT)

Describes a class activity in which students receive copies of requests for charitable contributions, research the charities and issues, write a persuasive appeal for the charities, and debate the merits of the various causes examined by the class. Argues that students learn to analyze persuasive appeals, separate emotional from factual arguments,…

Summarizes the major issues and perspectives related to dropout prevention. Reviews general strategies and school-based efforts, with emphasis on community involvement and the teacher-student relationship. Discusses related social and cultural issues, and examines the alternative school approach. Contains 23 references. (SV)

This article identifies several directions in which health education currently channels its energies, and suggests more appropriate alternatives. Topics include: individual behavior versus a broader environmental focus, questionable links between risk factors and health promotion efforts, and the relationship of education and morality to health…