The author contrasts the views of two theorists on leadership and communications, Raymond B. Cattell and Kurt Lewin. Cattell takes the authoritarian view that leaders are born, not made, and proposes the application of eugenic measures to develop the leaders that society needs, also stressing the importance of research to help to identify leaders.…

Lifelong education and its implications must be defined in order to embark on a rational and effective educational policy. Experiments in adult education in the nineteenth century gave rise to the idea of adult education as remedial, intended to correct the unfair treatment the lower classes received at the hands of an elitist educational system.…

This book presents an account of the Hillview project, designed to help young teacher trainees to get to know and understand the lives and values of working class children. The children were aged 15 and for the most part on the verge of leaving school. The project involves the student teachers in informal relationships and does not require that…

The University of New Haven, a private urban institution, has consistently published a strong commitment to service to the "community" and the "New Haven student." This paper tests the degree to which the university complies with its commitment. A social structure of the surrounding communities was extracted from the U.S.…

Criticizes Erving Goffman's theory that human gestures express cultural assumptions which, in turn, legitimize social structure. Contends that Goffman blurs the distinction between his own observations as a social scientist and the interpretations of behavior by people within social situations. (JMF)

Proposes an approach to French language instruction which stresses themes, such as literature, law, economics, and management, rather than specific occupational levels, so as to respect the needs of adult continuing education students of all socioeconomic levels. (AM)

Uses cross national data to examine how economic, political and educational structures affect both the participation of women in the labor force and their employment in more powerful and well rewarded positions, and assesses the relevance of comparative studies of women as a status group to national public policy considerations. (Author/JM)

Innovative programs need to address themselves to staff development and organizational change. Teachers need to be involved in continuing education and incorporation of educational personnel into new programs, and also in producing structural transformations in the system. Paper prepared for the Chicago, 1975 Convention of the American…

A number of issues have arisen from the publication of "Becoming Modern" by Inkeles and Smith. This paper raises each issue in turn and attempts to support the major assertions of that study. Included are such issues as the reasons for studying the individual, the role of personality characteristics, the personal features of modernity,…

Black novelist John Killens expresses perceptions and feelings about community college teaching in light of his experiences as a Black writer in the United States. Killens discusses influences on his writing, and his views of art in society and contemporary politics. (DMM)

Teachers and principals have a lot of power, but the power of teachers is different as the students over which they have power are more vulnerable. Teachers should acknowledge their power and the opportunities they have been given to open doors for children. (MD)

Analyzes how and why upper-middle-class children did not receive reading remediation during a summer program designed for this purpose. Explores reasons that people may resist (covertly or overtly) while simultaneously helping to sustain a particular set of social relations, institutional practices, and ideological legitimations. (CMG)

Applies a socio-psychological approach to social systems to examine the community mental health center (CMHC) movement, traces the historical evolution of the task mandate and the professional and organizational structures of the CMHCs to their legislative origins and considers possible future directions of the CMHC movement. (Author/JM)

This study describes an emerging sociological prototype and examines the degree to which urban stresses and conditions are absent or present and the manner in which they reveal themselves. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the erosion of America's faith in public education as a cultural and social element in building a sense of national community, calling for a mobilization to insist that the public schools concentrate as they never have before on the task of building a sense of civic cohesion among all people of the country. (JM)