The complexities of digital age pose challenge to existing instruction technology theory as it applies to a distance learning environment. Through the lens of Activity Theory, this study takes a broad picture of an online course and examines the socio-cultural factors affecting the success of a distance course as well as their complex…

Currently, sex education covers the mechanics of reproduction; details of venereal disease, and birth control information. This paper argues that this field should be augmented by the inclusion of the emotionally enriching, interpersonal, and sociocultural elements of human sexuality. A fundamentally Freudian sketch of sexual development is…

In order to study the broadening of the field of possibilities for individuals or for society as a whole, a phenomenological study needs to be made of the individual's psychology in his relations with his products or with those of the social system. (Author)

Analyzes the function silence performs in personal, social, and political communication, citing numerous examples. (RB)

A multicultural program for training educational administrators has to face the problems of the nature of the school, its purposes, and its functions in society. By recognizing the fact that there is a multiculture, certain assumptions about schools and administrator roles are no longer tenable. (Author)

Presents components of Indian pluralism and explains the forces that have divided and, at the same time, united her struggling nation. (RK)

Role of work in our society will change; fertility patterns will affect the direction of change and the climate in which choices will be made. (Editor)

The hypothesis is supported that the most extended, complex familial systems should be found among societies in an intermediate range of societal complexity, particularly among settled agricultural peoples. Among the simple hunting-gathering groups and in modern industrial states is found the nuclear family system: small, independent, nonextended…

Noted historian provides new dimension for understanding of impact of scientists on changing society wherein promise exists for freeing of the "body and spirit from concerns of the past. First of two articles on engineers in this issue. (Author/CJ)

Historically rooted curriculum designs cannot meet the challenges facing today's schools, let alone those of the future. (Author)

Examined in this review are personal ethics, changes in actual sexual behavior, social and personal factors influencing behavior, impact of sexual relations, and research theory and design. (CJ)