The Wingspread Conference on the Social Studies, sponsored by the National Association of Independent Schools in June 1968, has offered important leadership in bringing history and social science education into the 20th century. A significant departure from other innovative efforts within the profession was the heavy involvement of classroom…

Three major areas of confrontation within the educational system stem from power shifts taking place within the social system as a whole. The taxpayer's revolt against increased school expenditures as juxtaposed to teachers' collective demands for salary increases forms the nucleus of one major confrontation area. Secondly, urban schools face a…

The plights of southern farmers and the self-perceptions of their problems are the main topics of this study. Using U. S. Department of Agriculture criteria for determining low income and low level of living for rural areas, Fayette County, Alabama, was selected for this pilot study. Some 171 rural farm and nonfarm households, randomly selected,…

Within the context of institutional educations' attempt to respond to compelling social problems, Antioch College developed a program designed to test the assumption that "overlooked" minority group students with the potential for academic success would benefit from attendance at Antioch and would also contribute positively to the college. Since…

A specially developed 96-item English Teacher Role Inventory was used to question 52 supervisory teachers and 49 student teachers to determine (1) the kinds and amounts of agreement existing between experienced and novice teachers about the role of the high school English teacher, and (2) the ways in which males differ from females in viewing the…

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Youths' demand for radical changes in our society are discussed. Although their efforts are often misinterpreted as being destructive and unreasonable we cannot ignore the profound dissatisfactions of those whose main goal is to make the institutions which man has created responsive to man's basic needs. Most young people are aware of the…

This book contains game-planning ideas which will help instructors and students design games to fit the needs of their own particular schools and communities. The strategies and plans are recommended for classes of social problems, human relations, psychology, and can also be used with summer camp groups, chambers of commerce, clubs, and church…

This publication contains papers read at the Conference on Urban Geography for Secondary School Teachers in Hong Kong, 1973, and experimental teaching materials on urban studies based on some of the ideas of the American High School Geography Project. The following papers are included: (1) "Teaching Urbanization" provides general…

This study, a monitor of four experimental training programs in the field of social policy planning, has as its purpose to assess program development and outcomes and to relate any significant findings useful in educational program development for social policy professionals. The programs are discussed at two levels: individually in terms of their…

This book demonstrates how science fiction offers new insights into current social issues and helps students become more creative in their thinking about the future. Chapters begin with a discussion of science fiction through "what if" questions. From there chapters explore the concept of ecological balances through a combination of sciences…

This paper explores the responsibility of social researchers in contributing to the policy formation of our governments regarding financial assistance to the poor, to blacks, and to varied social reform programs. It is suggested that, regardless of the intent on the part of authors of social research, their findings have been used as justification…

Six papers serve to provide an in-depth look at a psychology graduate program in which the clinical faculty and some graduate students and their wives assisted in the initial training of public school staff and students. The focus was on interracial conflicts. The first paper discusses the general goals for the graduate students, the school staff…

The subject of this paper is a black twelfth grade experimental class in the Problems of American Democracy conducted in the fall of the 1969 school year. They were concerned with studying the local black community in its past and present forms from a cross-cultural anthropological point of view. A conceptual scheme of natural history involved the…

Based on students' generally shallow knowledge of geographic concepts on the one hand and a new and almost universal awareness of man in his milieu on the other, the author seeks to draw attention to the discipline of geography, and more specifically, political geography as an essential, fundamental component of international studies. The…