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Weissberg, Robert – Academic Questions, 2007
Contemporary university administrators are usually wimps, and timidity in facing easily enraged campus radicals only invites outrageous demands which, in turn, subvert intellectual life. This must be changed. For much of human history leaders had to display physical valor and this trait should be restored to the college administrator job…
Descriptors: College Administration, Activism, Civil Disobedience, Dissent
McKay, Bidge – 1971
The handbook for secondary students advocates nonviolent action, not passivity nor retaliation toward injustices. Emphasis is upon helping students to understand nonviolent action; to be familiar with training information on courses, time requirements, problems, costs, and procedures; and to deal with direct objectives toward peaceful social…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, Conflict Resolution, Dissent
Lakey, George; And Others – 1972
This manual contains an outline for a fifteen hour training course intended for hypothetical peace groups and includes skills and techniques for trainers to transmit to adult participants. The group discovers through role playing that tolerance, openness, non-retaliation policies, and preparation can effectively implement social change. Materials,…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Civil Disobedience
Gibson, John S.; Kenosian, Elisabeth M. – 1969
Case studies in each of the parts deal with specific problems in the mainstream of United States history and are designed to help the general level student relate the case study and the theme of the past to similar problems today. Each theme deals with the resolution of conflict in historical ideologies. 1) Studies on intolerance in American life…
Descriptors: Activism, American Culture, Case Studies, Civil Disobedience