This book examines the news media of modern Africa--newspapers, radio, television, news agencies, and magazines. The first half of the book presents a general overview of African news media, including the following topics: the context of Africa as related to the media, the background of each form of media, government involvement, the patterns of…

This general bibliography contains listings on economics, education, housing, land use, architecture, politics, recreation, and social services. The listings provide current information on these topics and date from 1973 through 1975. The bulk of the documents are commercially available books, project reports, studies, and conference proceedings.…

The 1927 Radio Act established the foundation for broadcast regulation in the United States. This paper examines the politics of the debate at the 69th Congress and gives a chronological outline of major dates and events which set the overall perspective. The Federal Radio Commission, which was created as a result of a political deal, was one of…

The professional preparation of educators is intensely and intrinsically political; this constitutes the external environment of the dean or chief administrator. What is true in the external environment of professional education is also true in the internal environment of the chief administrator of such programs. The different roles and functions…

There is presently little world-wide interest in Micronesia. Attitudes toward the U.S. administration vary from the pro-American bid for Commonwealth status by the Marianas to the movement for independence in the Marshalls. The polarization of these attitudes from the northernmost to southernmost reaches of the territory seems to be in direct…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the variables affecting the power relationships between an elementary principal, his superordinates, and his subordinates as they relate to the conversion of policy decisions into organizational practices. With the centralization of school districts, the increased pressure for community participation in…

For the third year in a row, Hofstra University has cooperated with the American Council on Education (ACE) in their survey of freshmen. Responses to almost all the questionnaire items by Hofstra freshmen over the last 3 years are included in this report. Hofstra students followed the national trends on several items: expectations about graduate…

The educational programs and materials of the churches involved in the World Council of Churches must be a part of the response that the poor nations of the Third World are demanding from the developed countries. Change is a key concept to these educational concepts and can only be effected by political action. Actions that must be taken on the…

Planning (including educational planning) is by nature a political activity. Educational planning begins with, operates through, and ends with politics. Since politics is a crucial factor in determining the nature and effectiveness of a plan, to be efficient planners, management personnel and other planners should study politics and calculate the…

Seventeen papers presented at a symposium on "Mexican Americans and Educational Change" funded by Project Follow Through, U.S. Office of Education, are contained in this document. The papers deal with such topics as educational change in historical perspective, politics of educational change, cultural democracy, bicultural education, bilingual…

When evaluating alternative designs of subscriber terminals that have been proposed for two-way cable television (CATV) systems we need to use political as well as economic criteria. The political objective a two-way communication system should serve is making government more responsive to feedback from citizens. At the national and state level…

This paper reviews the Westley-MacLean communication model, suggests some important research questions generated by it, and discusses recent research in mass media. A brief review of recent research suggests that the concept of agenda setting may be usefully superimposed on the Westley-MacLean model to reveal partial answers to some of these…

Discusses the political activity of the principal in intraschool departments as well as in external agencies and resources in the school community. (Author)

Reports on a study revealing that members of the Israeli Parliament elected after the 1973 Yom Kippur War showed a higher level of exposure to the news media, and a greater appreciation of the media's contribution to their knowledge of public opinion, than members elected before the war. (GW)

Reports that, for Dutch viewers, the televised debates between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter helped develop a presidential preference, regardless of the viewers' own political orientations, and that the debates may have benefited Carter. (GW)