Tanzania is experiencing an effort to make education relevant that is, in many ways, unique. Its policies in education are revolutionary in terms of the system it inherited at independence as well as in terms of the purposes of schooling as they have been implemented throughout history. (Author)

Student disdain for Canadian society is being carried over into an attitude toward the university. Faculty members should change their concept of the university from a liberal to a critical one. Report delivered at annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, May 22, 1969. Reprinted from C.A.U.T. Bulletin, October 1969. (WM)

H. Michael Sokolow's position on whether or not educational institutions should be regarded as morally responsible (in reference to various important contemporary problems) is critiqued, and an alternative view of educational institutions' moral responsibility is offered. (Author/CJ)

Describes socializing roles performed by American colleges after 1700, when the family shed its traditional role due to geographical mobility, cultural and political squabbles, religious declension, and family reorientation. (Author/DB)

We must learn to anticipate and to alter our futures, and higher education holds the key to that achievement. The role of universities is defined as twofold: (1) to bring about a well-balanced industrial society in which there is sufficient diversity of ideas; and (2) to redesign the industrial society to cope with problems brought about by…

Discusses American society's shift from cultural assimilation, or the "melting pot," to cultural pluralism, or ethnic identity. Notes dangers inherent in an overemphasis on pluralism and presents recommendations for social studies teachers to achieve a balance between the common core values of our society and those of cultural pluralism. (KC)

Discusses the new role schools should perform in developing the new cultural consciousness necessary to meet the changing social needs of individuals in the face of more rapid population multiplication. (JT)

Discusses social problems and concerns which cause student alienation and activism. Stresses that task of education is to reformulate the problems and seek solutions through increased respect for personal differences and pattern of social arrangements that allows widest expression of varied constructive potentials of man. (Author/NS)

Author traces the evolution of problems in American education since the second world war, stating that: "As a group of people, we are prone to apply simplistic solutions to complex problems, to engage in crusades, to romanticize, to look for heroes." (Author/RW)

The university reflects the revolution in the world. Large numbers of "find out" students are not goal oriented and are affected by malaise; many approve of the use of violence in certain situations. Part of the revolution must be accepted and part rejected. The university is extremely vulnerable to violence and, unless it is contained, American…

The increased speed of knowledge accumulation and obsolescence and the shift from local self-reliance to national centralization require that the educational system revitalize itself and join other social institutions in protecting and extending an open social system. (MB)

Rapid technological development, the information era, and demographic shifts are three current trends that will influence the educational programs of the future. Schools will need to help students develop skills of reading, writing, and computing and to help students assume responsibility for their own learning throughout their lives. (MLF)