Attempts to present a graphic representation of actual and potential patterns of relationship among the many cultures which comprise the total American society. Argues that typical existing relationships are unhealthy and spawn lack of respect for other cultures and the seeds for disruptive conflict. (Author/AM)

This article reveals the nature of the images of society in traditional approaches to geographical education and explores the implications of these in terms of the ideology involved. The data include student interviews, geography textbooks, and geography curriculum writings. (Author/JDH)

Answers in the affirmative the question of whether school integration is still a good and desirable goal. (Author/RK)

Discusses interaction among students, adults, and school subjects with an accent on the effectiveness of socialization in the school. (RK)

A selective review of attempts to investigate urban systems that includes a 66-item bibliography. (MLF)

This study looks at changes which took place between two major ethnic groups in a plural society by examining their patterns of participation in the same formal educational institutions in that society over a period of forty years." (Author/SE)

Focus is the measurement of power at the community level considering the social organizational context. (SE)

Economics teaches that alternatives always exist, even if the choice is only between a new action and the existing status quo and that, in order to evaluate choices, one must know exactly what the relevant alternatives are. (Author)

Uses social systems theory to analyze the interaction of an informal group of family and friends formed around an individual in an intensive care unit. Discusses contributors to dissension including ambiguity of the task structure, fluidity of leadership and power, and failure of a utopian defense. (Author/JAC)

The imminent educational crisis is at once economic, political, cultural, and ideological. Curriculum is discussed in relationship to Marxist ideology, conflict in the labor force, and political practice. (JN)

Proposes changes in roles of school guidance workers. High school students have access to networks of informal helpers to discuss family troubles, sexual matters, and peer relations. When this system is well developed, it provides feedback about appropriateness of adolescent behavior. (Author/BEF)

This article uses an examination of the formal instruction of the Bumbudye association in Zaire to point out problems that exist in anthropological writings concerning primitive and modern schooling in nonindustrial, non-Europeanized nations. (Author/EB)

Described are laws governing the Yugoslavia educational system from 1940 to present, with an emphasis on people's universities and workers' universities. The result has been the transformation of a predominantly illiterate, poorly skilled, and nonparticipant society into a more highly educated, trained, and self-managed political culture. (KC)

From a study of 46 nations over the period 1957 to 1973, it is argued that regional educational inequality indicates the presence of other regional social, political, and economic inequalities, and it is all of these factors together that generate feelings of relative deprivation and the pursuant political instability. (Author/SJL)

The nature of adult education is determined by the kind of political entity controlling it: liberal democracy, communist state, or developing country. Adult education in these different national structures and its significance in social and economic development is discussed, with emphasis on the need for continuity despite political changes. (MF)