Discusses a strategy used to incorporate value-related issues into introductory chemistry. Indicates that the approach, necessarily limited to few topics each year, encourages students to reflect on the causes and effect of science-related social issues and to define their personal values. (JN)

Discussion of the problems which confront African library administrators in the establishment of a new university library focuses on administrative, social, political, and economic problems. Educational systems in Africa are seen to be the prime key to development of more and better university library services. Footnotes are included. (EJS)

Psychology teachers have been encouraged to teach psychology both as a scientific enterprise and as applications to personal and social problems. Classroom problems that arise, e.g., Should a psychology teacher provide psychological counseling to a needy student? are discussed. (RM)

Describes experiences in helping women students discover their own voices and grounding that voice in their own experience. (CRH)

Offers opinions and recommendations by four educators on including women's studies in high school and college curricula. (CRH)

Avi Hofstein and Robert E. Yager recently published "Societal Issues as Organizers for Science Education in the 80's" (EJ 273 207). Objections to their thesis are discussed indicating, among others, that their suggestions would be counterproductive to their stated goals and open to dangerous manipulation by anti-scientific factions and social…

Offers a defense of societal issues as organizers for school science programs in response to criticisms of this thesis discussed in SE 534 649. Indicates that there appears to be no evidence that using nontraditional topics as organizers will make science more subject to manipulation and perversion. (JN)

Responds to the argument in Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973) by Goldstein, Freud and Solnit that the parent awarded custody should have the right to allow or refuse the other parent access to the child by contending that these guidelines are not in the best interests of children, and proposes the adoption of uniform statues regarding…

Some practical suggestions for a business-like approach to community mental health, particularly transitional residences. (Editor)

Three projects are described that were observed during a two-month study tour to Latin America in 1975: urban and rural community development in Bolivia; nonformal initial education in Peru; and international education in Argentina. The projects are carried out in situations involving particularly difficult social problems. (ND)

Suggests that anthropology has been an instrument of imperialist intervention and control in the Third World as it has been used against the oppressed and colonized people of the world. It becomes the responsibility of the revolutionary and socialist anthropologists to make the discipline a tool of liberation. (Author/AM)

Errors in the planning, procedures, and logistics of the babylift are discussed, including the problems of the childrens health and physical safety, and whether many of them are actually orphans. Frequent criticisms raised by the babylift effort are also analyzed. (Author/AM)

Serves as an introduction to four subsequent articles of this issue and notes that these articles identify and examine a number of issues central to the school law social change relationship. (Author/AM)

Suggests that one of the reasons why many of the older self-help organizations rejected professional help may be that the help that was offered was of the more authoritarian variety. (Author/AM)

The "new" student is described as more socially concerned and committed to reform of the health care system than students of the 1950s. Data suggest partial support for the hypothesis of decreasing liberalism among entering freshmen after 1973, increasing conservatism among graduating seniors, and a high level of conservatism among physicians.…