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Sternberg, Eugene D.; Sternberg, Barbara E. – 1971
An overview of the social and planning concepts which serve as a foundation for the location, programming, and operation of various types of community centers and student unions is offered in this book. Pointing up the vital role of these institutions in meeting current community needs, it takes a look at community centers and student unions from…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Community Centers, Community Influence, Conceptual Schemes
DeLuca, Nicholas M. – 1975
It is the purpose of this paper to suggest a role community assessment can play in the development of effective communication links between the public schools and the communities they serve, and to outline a process by which the public schools can develop their own community assessment activities. Community assessment, in the broader sense, can be…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Community Study, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
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Butsika, George – Journal of Career Education, 1978
Emphasizing that career education is no substitute for basic education, a labor union education director says that career education's blend of classroom and work experience has created problems for the labor force. Local economy and employment level must be considered, with effective input from labor representatives. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Influence, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
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Weiss, Melford S. – Journal of Social Issues, 1977
This paper comments on an anthropologist's field experience with a Chinese community in an American city. This particular community had mixed feelings about being studied, was composed of competing groups, and overtly attempted to manipulate the anthropologist's participation in community affairs. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Chinese Americans, Community Characteristics, Community Influence
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DeGrove, William – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1977
The contributions of several core variables to the white suicide rates in 24 Florida counties were examined. A prediction equation including age, crime rate, insanity, and alcoholism was found that accounted for 79 percent of the variation in the suicide rates across counties. (Author)
Descriptors: Age, Behavior Problems, Community Influence, Death
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Foley, Linda; Kranz, Peter – Integrated Education, 1977
Suggests that if a new environment is conducive to positive interracial contact, the resulting changes will be positive. In this form of intervention two factors are important: the amount of time spent in the environment and the characteristics of the contact situation. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bias, Change Agents, Community Influence, Community Involvement
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Cohen, Gaynor – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1977
Explores effects of husbands/ career pressures upon role structures within a section of middle-class families at the childrearing stage of the family life cycle. It examines the process through which instrumental relationships between women gave rise to a distinctive subculture which offered support to women in domestic affairs and child rearing.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Community Influence, Family Life
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Hidalgo, Hilda A.; Christensen, Elia Hidalgo – Journal of Homosexuality, 1976
Puerto Rican lesbians (N=61) were interviewed as well as members of the general Puerto Rican community (N=264). Attitudes of both groups were analyzed. Lesbians feared rejection from the community, which was the dominant attitude of community members. Cultural values and a literature review are also presented. (HLM)
Descriptors: Community Influence, Ethnic Groups, Females, Homosexuality
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Eblen, David R. – Administrator's Notebook, 1975
Reports on a new examination of the Iannaccone and Lutz model of local school district politics that suggests the model's explanatory power is limited. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Influence, Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Sanchez, Lionel – EPOCA: The National Concilio for Chicano Studies Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communication Problems, Community Influence, Educational Problems
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Grissom, Catherine E. – Childhood Education, 1971
Straight talk for teachers with the courage to acknowledge need for help in talking with urban, working-class parents who may have differing values but who share a common concern about the welfare of their children. (Editor)
Descriptors: Community Influence, Cultural Differences, Educational Objectives, Individual Needs
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Ladd, Edward T. – School Management, 1970
Approaches suggested for school superintendents in mediating between an intellectual profession and a non-intellectual, sometimes anti-intellectual, community. (Author)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Civil Liberties, Community Influence, Court Litigation
Hoyman, H. S. – J Sch Health, 1969
Descriptors: Community Influence, Contraception, Population Trends, School Role
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Marvell, J. – Journal of Moral Education, 1974
This article describes that part of the research related to the formation of moral values in a multi-racial group of students. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Influence, Family Influence, High Schools, Moral Development
DiNitto, Diana – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1982
Describes patterns of problem drinking in rural areas, suggests factors which may influence the comparatively lower rates of alcoholism among rural residents, discusses the types of alcohol treatment available in rural communities, and offers preliminary ideas for applying the alcoholism-reducing factors of rural life to preventing alcoholism in…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Blacks, Community Influence
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