The Aspen Institute formed a National Commission on Coping with Interdependence to investigate the capacity of Americans to cope with interdependence and consider how that capacity can be enhanced. This paper responds to two questions: to what extent do our existing institutions perceive the predicament, analyze its implications, and act in…

The effects of participation as a salaried professional in a reform oriented organization on the participants' subsequent career is considered in this paper and studied in the context of the OEO sponsored Legal Services Program. Because of the paucity of literature on the consequences of participation in reform organizations, a related literature,…

Three separate teacher and student books for the Project 18 course are included in this packet. The objective is to help students develop a positive attitude and to motivate them toward political participation. Teaching strategies for six sections, which run the gamut from simulation to lecture, focus on practical politics. The six sections are as…

The purpose of this study is to provide an insight into the socialization process of urban, culturally deprived children by focusing upon the attitudes of their mothers who were respondents not selected on the basis of their willingness to cooperate. As part of a preschool project for culturally deprived children in Ypsilanti, a community on the…

This article presents a longitudinal analysis of the Florida Parent Education Programs which were designed to provide intervention services to socioeconomically disadvantaged parents of young children through home visits by paraprofessional personnel. The programs include the: (1) Parent Education Project (PEP); (2) Early Child Stimulation through…

This symposium report contains various statements of the theory of change and societal growth and maintenance viewed from the perspectives of major social disciplines. Comparative theories in these areas can provide guidelines for predicting, planning, and carrying out social development programs. The theme of the symposium was the problem of…

The major reason for using the outdoor history museum as a field laboratory is to provide for small in depth studies of "real life" problems relevant for today's students. An authentic New England village of 1790-1840 provides the background for the sequential development of various concepts in the social studies learning unit. Concepts are…

The purpose of this curriculum is to guide the child in decision-making in the areas of citizenship and human relations, to develop an understanding of his immediate environment and the larger environment of the world in which he lives, to help the child to adapt to our changing society and its changing demands. We hope to accomplish these goals…

The objectives of this report are to determine whether there is a need to establish a statewide policy of early education in Ohio, to define what priorities are implied by such a need, and to suggest relevant recommendations for the establishment of a policy, if needed. Sixteen chapters (nine-tenths) of this report present information from…

This thesis attempts to analyze one particular aspect of the development activities of some fifty social studies projects, namely, the role of political science and its materials within the projects. The paper is divided into four chapters. The first seeks to give a brief analysis of the curriculum development projects in recent years in terms of:…

The collection of papers bearing on language and poverty comprising this book includes: "Some Preliminaries and Prospects" (F. Williams); "Teaching Reading in an Urban Negro School System" (J. Baratz); "A Sociolinguistic Approach to Socialization" (B. Bernstein); "Some Philosophical Influences Underlying Preschool Intervention for Disadvantaged…

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which selected experimental curriculum units emphasizing avenues of political involvement, creative conflict, and change might influence the acquisition of political knowledge and development of feelings of political efficacy and cynicism among Anglo, Black and Mexican-American…

This paper examines the power of particular affect and rejection socioquestions to produce characteristic patterns across all the sociometric choices of 576 fifth-graders in 18 classrooms. Of particular concern are the degrees of centrality exhibited in response to socioquestions which pertain to academic competence and failure and the overall…

The Soviet view of education as a chief resource for achieving national, social, economic, cultural, and scientific objectives is reflected in this report of the first U.S. mission to the U.S.S.R. The following topics are covered: The Administrative System of Soviet Education, Nurseries and Kindergartens, Schools of General Education, Extraschool…

This study guide for high school and college students examines selected, revolutionary political films made by Godard, Rocha, Solanas, Sanjines, and others, notably Czech and Cuban film-makers. This guide stresses an aesthetic, auteuristic approach and touches upon film production procedures. The films recommended for study range in technique from…