The most exciting educational experiences in America are those in which busy adults are lifted out of the humdrum of daily preoccupations and routines and introduced to new ideas, challenges and perspectives. (Author)

Educators must equip students to cope with a diversity of experiences and changes in our world. (IR)

Adapted from a speech given at the 1985 conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, this discussion addresses issues concerning the formation of a national child care policy and describes factors contributing to "child carelessness" in the conception and delivery of child care services. (KS)

Summarizes social changes of the last 20 years which have influenced educational change. Suggests that educators should see new needs as interrelated. Attention should be given to the development of skills for coping with change and understanding increasing interdependence. (Author/KC)

The family is a context in which young children can acquire a sense of purpose, dignity and worth, if ideas of individualism and privacy are tempered by a sense of community. The school, the parents' places of work and community institutions should be used as extensions of the family setting. (Author/RH)

A noted economist reviews the progress made in employment in four years and looks ahead to the changes coming before 1980. He suggests that employers as well as those who work in education will have to pay more attention in the future to the role of lifetime education and training. (Author/PC)

This document presents a report and recommendations of the conference on institutions of higher education as a resource in the solution of national problems. The report presents a summary for the discussions and deliberations of the conference with regard to 4 specific issues: (1) the university as a public resource; (2) internal organization of…

The author discusses recent increasing concern for social justice in India, analyzing the link between the existing educational system and the prevailing social system. In this context he discusses questions: What should be priorities in educational activities? How effective is education as an instrument of social change? Should students…

America's earliest schools taught career awareness and job skills, but for 200 years it was a speciality curriculum--cultivating a classical heritage predominated. Recently the hard sell message is that schooling and credentialism ensure entry into the "successful life". Vocational educators must become leaders, explode this myth, and redefine…

This paper projects present trends and capabilities into the future, conjectures about the educational implications of these trends, and proposes some possible responses for those involved in the preparation of school personnel. It is simultaneously an illustration and an application of the process of "futurism" and its increasing relevance to…

The 80-page handbook contains information activities, and resources for educators, students and communities, focusing on a model workshop based on experiences with over 300 workshops on sex equality in education throughout the U.S. Workshop information is practical and includes the problem as well as coping techniques for counselors with specific…

Analyzes the political implications of lifelong learning and the potential of education as a change agent. Identifies education's role in social change in the Third World. Analyzes the role of vocational education from a lifelong perspective, considering both a segmentalist and a holistic approach to work and leisure. (SK)

Educators must not attempt to solve all of their problems in a vacuum. (MM)