Traditionalists at UCD support the accomplishments of the school's agricultural engineers, chemists, and founding administrators. Opposing them is a loose coalition of environmental scientists and social reformers pushing for change. The battle over UCD's direction extends well beyond the university community. (LBH)

A suggested approach to curing our massive social ills is a curriculum division of social problems into: (1) a study of the most significant of these problems (from subject matter and basic democratic principles' approaches); and (2) a problem-solving approach toward controversial issues about which both the public and experts disagree. (MJB)

The field of curriculum is neither ready to identify social problems, nor to discuss them, nor to influence what really happens in the schools, because it has not clarified its own essential nature and functions. (Author/MJB)

Summarizes issues regarding the development of nuclear power in Canada and reasons for the organization of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. (RH)

A review is given of (1) the history of education as providing stability within populations, (2) the role of the university in an industrial society, (3) the need for education and society to interact fruitfully, and (4) the need for secondary education to prepare individuals for continued learning as adults. (AV)

Suggests that despite assurances of the pollsters that antisemitism is not a serious problem, the Jewish community is gripped by a sense of urgency and uncertainty. (Author/AM)

Philosophical challenges as well as major social problems are at the root of current criticisms of science. The author presents the case that the suspension of belief in modern science should be the focus of contemporary studies of the social dimensions of science. (Author/AJ)

This paper should not be interpreted as stating that T.V. violence can not cause aggression; rather, it argues that no such link has been demonstrated to date. Further, it questions the applicability of laboratory experimentation for this policy related issue. (Author/AM)

Considered is the continuing rise in the number of children entering foster care and despite efforts to rehabilitate families and to place children for adoption, foster care tends to be interminable for many children. (Author/MH)

Some of the implications of the failure of graduate schools to help students find constructive solutions to societal problems are considered. This issue is seen as a crucial one since graduate students are not only teaching assistants, with a major share of the burden of undergraduate education, but become university professors and secondary…

Argues that the problems of democracy concern how to permit intelligence and effectiveness to be brought to bear in the reestablishment of self-governance, self-determination, self-adjustment, and self-definition. This problem is the basic one, and begins to be resolved the moment that we start acting and thinking as self-governing,…

Reports on a study which focussed attention on advisers' attitudes toward political reporting in school news media and on the nature and scope of such reporting. (MB)

The arguments put forth in the 1930s against indoctrination in American education from the standpoints of the social reconstructionists and of the followers of the Bode-Hullfish position are presented. The only viable alternative to indoctrination was seen to be the study of social problems. These views continue to shape classroom practice. (RM)

Using a newly developed coding method, the Geriatric Interaction Analysis system, the interactions of doctors with a matched sample of older and younger patients were audiotaped and scored. Patients and doctors raised fewer psychosocial issues in interviews with older patients than with younger patients. Doctors also responded less well to these…

Describes experiences in a Black English course in which teacher and students mounted the charge of making schooling relevant and useful when they decided to mobilize on behalf of a Black classmate whose unarmed brother was killed by white policemen in Brooklyn, New York. (JOW)