Inhumane working conditions led to a strike of Japanese silk spinners and formation of a union. Company repression provoked public opinion, resulting in acceptance of worker demands for recognition of human rights in the workplace. (SK)

Describes the contributions to deep ecology of Henry Thoreau, who advocated acting upon strongly held convictions; John Muir, who adopted a biocentric view of nature; and Aldo Leopold, who formulated an egalitarian ecosystem ethic. While deep ecology is moving toward a new vision of humankind's relation to nature, it has yet to coalesce into a…

This paper reviews the professional counseling literature of the past 45 years and examines the implications of these studies for the future roles of university counseling centers. The research reviewed consists primarily of investigations of the following issues: (1) the problems students experience and present to counseling centers; (2) student…

This 1943 National Education Association yearbook was written to teach rural educators about conservation education in the United States. The general purposes of the book are: (1) to describe the major problems of conservation education; (2) to give specific illustrations of what specialists believe rural schools should teach; (3) to present…

The author provides a comprehensive study of one of the most cited but least studied authorities on Black educational history, Horace Mann Bond. The author highlights both the social conditions that confronted all Black Americans during the first three decades of the twentieth century and the Black academic response of that time. (Author/CT)

Recounts the inception, philosophy, and successes of Cleveland Ohio's Major Work Program, a course of study founded in 1922 for gifted students. (JW)

This paper briefly highlights the past four decades of the often contentious relationship between school districts and the environmental movement revealing the difficulties that environmental policy has had on the nation's educational systems. It reveals the public's increasing awareness of environmental factors within the school that jeopardize…

Suggests that the years between cataclysmic wartime occurrences and the period during which Japanese Americans became viewed as the "successful minority" were a period of crisis rather than a period of transition. Discusses "social amnesia" in terms of issues never fully resolved by Japanese Americans. (MK)

Surveys media coverage of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), concluding that there was a general lack of press attention to NEPA and that Congress constructed its own social reality with respect to NEPA in the absence of an agenda-setting role by the press. (GT)

The central lesson that educational reformers can derive from historical antecedents is that pedagogical practice is highly contextual, making the success of every reform contingent on the extent to which it can be interpreted and adapted in the light of particular conditions. (IAH)

Charts a brief history of the teaching of basic writing, suggesting that fieldwork has been shaped by three overarching metaphors--growth, initiation, and conflict. Argues that recent views of the basic writing classroom as a "contact zone" fail to offer a compelling view of public discourse as a forum expressing and negotiating cultural…

Explores the modern history of homework, beginning with its origins in eighteenth-century England. Discusses early educational reformers' resistance to homework. Reports that former Soviet space advances spurred a U.S. reexamination of homework through the 1960s and 1970s. Examines the contemporary view of homework as an inexpensive means of…

A social constructivist approach is used to study apprenticeship in the textile industry in medieval Paris. Issues of inertia, the dynamics of change, diversity, access to corporations, and the effect of social interactions and conflict on solving problems are examined. (SK)

Presents overviews of librarian and library support staff education from 1887 to the present. Discusses current forces in education for librarians; the balance between professional and university environments; differences between education for librarians and library technicians; persistent themes; the role of information science in library…

Describes founding in 1870 of a German gymnasium in Buffalo, arguing that it illustrates both the continuing European influence on American educational institutions and the process by which such institutions are adapted to conditions in the United States. (Author/CMG)