About 90 students (grades 7 through 12) participated in a peer counseling program in Palo Alto, California. After a 12 week training program that taught communication skills, adolescent concerns, and the strategies and ethics of counseling, students were assigned to small group practicums that met once a week and provided ongoing supervision.…

Alternatives to the capitalistic Western model of develoment are suggested. Three problems afflicting Western society--alienation, resource exploitation, and eviornmental stability--are discussed and a model which advocates both political and technological change is proposed. (SM)

Presents a series of value statements for use as the applied humanities'' stem of the professional curriculum, and suggests four relevant curriculum items for helping professional-oriented students recognize the societal nature of professional problems. (For Part Two of this article, see SE 509 329, volume 63 number 8, pages 599-602, May, 1973.)…

Social studies materials for secondary grades containing case studies of social problems which require critical thinking skills are assessed and described. (SM)

Reports a study intended both to determine disadvantaged children's concern with and emphasis on the social issues in their environment, and also to examine the extent to which opinion prejudice and race prejudice affect these children's belief systems. (Author/JM)

Discusses the development of Ethiopian school systems as well as its structural arrangement. (RK)

Until community educators direct their efforts to the development of sound theory from which to test the results of social and educational problem-solving activity, there is little hope for universal adoption of community education as a viable movement. (Author)

Professional education should aim to develop in its students social and cultural orientation, including an awareness of the social consequences of their acts. To accomplish such an objective, a redesigning of professional curricula is necessary. (CK)

Speech delivered at the Annual Meeting, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), November 28, 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)

"This article is based on a report prepared for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Editor)

A framework involving five elements--cause, change agent, change target, channel, and change strategy--provides a useful framework for social action analysis. (Author)

A decision-making rationale and curriculum model are given. (SE)

A candid examination of Problems of the Seventies," Students of the Seventies," and Approaches of Professional Economists" provides the background for the authors' selection of criteria for a one-semester, twelth grade economics course. (Author)

This paper describes five major problem areas, implies roles health education practitioners can play in the resolution of these problems, and suggests the author's perceptions of curricular programs found in primary and secondary teacher training institutions and selected schools of public health. Presented at Public Health Association, Houston,…