This paper argues that the amorality evident among U.S. citizens may be the result of individuals and society's inability to understand the relationship between the public and private life of the citizen and the role and function of ethics in that relationship. The argument has three premises. First, U.S. citizens have developed a sort of cultural…

Author urges educators to be guardians and promulgators of the basic social verities. Parity in education must take the place of elitism. (Editor)

Discusses an essay assailing the new pluralistic consciousness as a danger to individuality and personal autonomy. (Editor)

Liberal arts colleges, with an emphasis on development of the whole person and on freedom of the mind and spirit, provide a significant link with the traditions of democracy. (Author/KE)

The higher education system of the United States evolved from the English college, the land grant college, and the German university. The land grant college, which combined lofty idealism with hard practicality, and which established the concept of education for the masses, is a true forerunner of our community colleges today. (DC)

Instrumental to successful democratic leadership is the use of committees to solve management problems. In democratic leadership, a leader encourages participation and uses a guidance approach to direct a group toward consensus. This document offers leaders guidelines in effective democratic management of meetings. The authors first discuss the…

SOCIAL CONTROLS SUPPORTING THE BIRACIAL SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES ARE PRIMARILY LEGAL AND ARE OFTEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE PREVAILING MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS. THE NEGRO PROTEST IS NOT ONLY AGAINST WIDESPREAD DEPRIVATIONS, BUT ALSO AGAINST RELATIVE DEPRIVATIONS OR BARRIERS DESIGNED TO PREVENT THEM FROM ENJOYING CERTAIN RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES…

A RESOURCE UNIT FOR TEACHERS IS PRESENTED. IT AIMS AT EXPLAINING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF A CITIZEN, DEVELOPING THE PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY, AND DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT QUESTIONS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. SUGGESTED METHODS FOR TEACHING THE UNIT INVOLVED--THE USE OF CASE STUDIES, MASS MEDIA…

TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS OFTEN CONCEAL THE TRUE NATURE OF A SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY FEAR THE JUDGMENTS OF THEIR SUPERVISORS. THIS CONSCIOUS DECEPTION BECOMES AN UNCONSCIOUS SELF-DECEPTION, WHICH IS GENERATED IN THE SAME WAY THAT NEUROTIC DEFENSES ARE DEVELOPED. WHEN TEACHERS MUST TEACH FEARING THAT THEIR CAREERS ARE IN JEOPARDY, CREATIVE AND…

Americans have long equated popular education with social cohesion and social mobility. After the American revolution, the school became a focus for patriotism and the institution where individuals learned how to become citizens. The testbooks of the mid-19th and early 20th century emphasized white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant values. While the values…

This curriculum guide for use in Liberian schools, K-12, describes the responsibility and burden of social studies education as that of providing method for implementing and strengthening democratic attitudes and behavior, knowledge, understanding, beliefs and loyalty in all Liberian citizens. This is elaborated through 21 more specific objectives…

The similarities between the conditions that brought on the American Revolution and our present social conditions need to be stressed in textbooks and classrooms.

Reports results of a survey of the establishment, aims, operations, financing, and procedures of the 32 press councils that have been formed in industrial democracies; notes that they all aim at preserving press freedom and helping the press assume its social responsibilities, but that they differ in their determination of how these goals should…

Presents eight propositions for different kinds of diversity, in order of importance, based on relevance to democracy; specifically, relevance to openness in the marketplace of ideas, and to creation of the system of communications which is least restrictive of freedom of speech and of the press. (JMF)