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Allen, Jack – Social Education, 1985
Merrill Hartshorn, for three decades the driving force behind the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), died in 1985. This tribute, written by a former NCSS president and longtime friend of Hartshorn, describes Hartshorn as "the torchbearer of a social studies tradition." (RM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Beadle, Gordon B. – Social Education, 1984
How the novel "1984" evolved out of Orwell's mind and experience is examined. The novel was meant to be much more than an attack on the Soviet Union and communism. The real target is the deadly combination of advanced technology and unbridled exercise of power over the individual. (RM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Communism, English Literature, Experience