Aimed principally at educational professionals--teachers; counselors; administrators; and vocational, career, and adult educators--this monograph provides a framework for considering leisure as an integral part of life planning. The introduction, based largely on a literature review, presents historical perspectives on leisure, discusses its…

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN THE GREAT CITIES OF AMERICA FACE A CRUCIAL CHALLENGE TO PROVIDE THE KIND OF EDUCATION WHICH IS NECESSARY TO MEET THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES OF TODAY. THE CHALLENGE CANNOT BE MET WITHOUT THE RENEWED AND CONTINUING DETERMINATION BY THE CITIZENS. IT CANNOT BE MET WITHOUT ADEQUATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO…

The advent of career education and the trend toward the economic model of education have brought about a role reversal for vocational education. Vocational education has switched from an insignificant part of the educational sphere to a larger role. Two concepts of the position that vocational education has reached are discussed. (DS)

The author supports flexible academic programs, close student-faculty relationships, and extensive community interaction. (Editor/HS)

Article stresses the need for decision makers and educational researchers to work more closely together. (ML)

Discusses England's responsibility to help upgrade developing nations through educational assistance. (BH)

The purpose of educational philosophy, as represented in "Philosophy and Education: Eightieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education," is discussed and a proper role for the discipline is suggested. Several authors of essays in the yearbook are criticized for emphasizing adherence to schools of philosophy at the…

The study of war, of human and material devastation, must be paired with moral judgment to guide action in the present toward the future. A threat emanating from the peace movement is forgetting the wrongs one's country has committed against other peoples. (CJ)

Suggests that educators must share the responsibility for training people for living in the twenty-first century. Notes implication to education of the development of the microcomputer. (KC)

Four guidelines and the following five points are discussed in terms of changes in education and/or future educational needs and responsibilities: (1) Learning is central; (2) schooling and education are not synonymous, (3) need for full educational resources, (4) a tremendous task, and (5) central role of education of adults. (WL)

The author suggests that there should be a continuing policy for educative broadcasting especially sensitive to the needs of lifelong non-participants in formal post-school education. He recommends extending the amount of up-market programing, injecting educative content into the down-market programs, and giving maximum exposure to educative…

The article discusses the need for home economists to prepare families for the effects of unemployment and inflation. (Author/BP)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

To effectively address minority educational concerns, educators must understand and be sensitive to minority group students' cultural and social differences. In addressing the unmet educational needs of gifted and talented minority students, they must recognize the fact that minority cultures are "legitimate" and that the influence of these…

The survival of English teachers depends on their ability to define themselves in terms of the practical and material survival of society. Among those re-evaluators of teacher roles in light of social responsibility are Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, authors of "Teaching as a Subversive Activity," John Fischer, advocate of ecological…