This booklet addresses the growing importance of health in adult learning and the interest in joint action. Section 1 describes the context, one in which substantial, but unevenly spread, progress has been made in improving global health. Section 2 examines the social aspects of health and explains how what is defined as health or sickness depends…

Families, schools, community organizations, and local practitioners have an important role to play in bringing about changes in the larger physical and psychosocial environment. The environmental strategies of policy, enforcement, education, communication, and collaboration can all have a significant impact. These environmental strategies for…

This guide discusses preparing volunteer tutors for success in educational environments and describes the startup year of these programs. Research and experience in the field suggest that a good beginning is key to the long-term survival of new programs. The startup year is the most challenging. It requires leadership to muster the energy and…

Outlines the problems that schools and students in Chicago have had in developing and maintaining a music education program. (RK)

Community vascillation, the inability to adequately identify the opposition or support, and the difficulties of defined audience communication tested basic principles and philosophies of the Rochester Board of Education. (Author/SJ)

Graduates of compensatory early childhood programs in Knox County, Kentucky demonstrated few differences when compared with matched subjects in first grade. (WY)

Describes how Dade County, Florida, adjusted to the large influx of Cubans. (JF)

Respondents in a 1969 survey (n=400) of undergraduate men at the University of Michigan were resurveyed as alumni in 1979 (n=215). Former activists were disproportionately employed in human services areas of government and had shifted their main involvement from national to community affairs. (Author/PN)

A multiframework mega model of community education for community action is presented which details ethical, policy-oriented, planning oriented, organizational, pedagogical, and evaluational aspects of education for employment and income generation in rural areas. (JN)

Presents a case study of participatory evaluation which suggests an evaluation method which not only provides meaningful data for decision makers but also provides important feedback to the community. Shows the steps leading to self-evaluation workshops and reviews the evaluation methods that were utilized. (Author/CT)

The efforts of an ad hoc committee formed to lobby for federal legislation to allow tax deductions to nonitemizers for charitable gifts are described. Suggests that decline in charitable contributions could be disastrous to colleges, churches, etc. (MLW)

The author discusses the growth of community action in Northern Ireland and the significance of adult education to further social change during a time of conflict. He describes two different approaches to community education: adult education as the "education arm" of the activist movement, and adult education as a general community…

The status of two of life's necessities, air and water, is of crucial importance to the future of American parks and recreation programs, and continued cooperation among federal, state, local and private sectors is necessary to preserve them. (JD)

Describes attitudes and strategies used by two small rural towns to foster economic development and improve local housing, schools, professional facilities, and recreational programs for youth and adults. Emphasizes individual leadership qualities useful in creating a vision for community survival, communicating the vision through town meetings,…

Examines five major curriculum theories: (1) information-based; (2) behavioral approaches; (3) community problem solving/action research; (4) integrated; and (5) bonding with nature. These theories touch on the role of action in environmental education programs. Also discusses the Action Learning Triangle--learning through action, learning from…