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WOLCOTT, HARRY F. – 1967
THE AUTHOR'S ONE-YEAR RESIDENCY AS TEACHER IN A KWAKIUTL INDIAN VILLAGE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FORMS THE BASIS OF THIS CASE STUDY. WITH EMPHASIS ON THE LIVES AND FAMILIES OF 5 SCHOOL CHILDREN, THE STUDY DEALS WITH THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE VILLAGE, DISINTEGRATION OF THE INDIAN CULTURE AND THE TRANSITION TOWARD THE…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Attitudes, Cultural Background, Culture Lag
Download full textWEY, HERBERT W. – 1966
THIS ARTICLE IS A GENERAL REVIEW OF VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION IN THE DEEP SOUTH. IT POINTS OUT THAT THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE SCIENTIFIC AND OBJECTIVE INQUIRY INTO SOUTHERN DESEGREGATION. INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT NEGRO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN BIRACIAL SCHOOLS, STUDENT AND TEACHER ATTITUDES IN SEGREGATED AND…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Black Students, Black Teachers, Community Attitudes
Young, James D. – 1978
The 1977-78 Adult Continuing Education Survey provided demographic and educational data on three populations served by Vocational, Technical and Adult Education (VTAE) District One: users (1,658), non-users (880), and past users (480). Study participants responded to group specific questionnaires designed to elicit information on sex, age,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Education, Age, Community Attitudes
Report: Priorities of Problems, Program Areas, Solutions to Problems and Capital Construction Needs.
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1975
A sample of the general population of Dade County residents were surveyed, by interviews, by an independent research firm during December, 1973 regarding educational goals, major problems confronting the schools and their opinions regarding certain school system programs. It was decided to refine and augment those results by surveying specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Class Size
Banta, Trudy W. – 1975
Evaluation questionnaires were administered to more than 92 percent of the professional staff associated with the Knox County Extended School Year (ESY) Program during the summer and fall of 1974 and to more than half of the students enrolled in the summer quinmester, along with a random sample of 10 percent of the students enrolled in October…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Sheffield, James R.; And Others – 1974
The five articles in this report explore issues of rural and urban development, formal and nonformal education, and local and national needs in Africa. "Partnership for Productivity" (PFP) and "Brigades in Botswana: Their National Impact" focus on the development of managerial and nonagricultural vocational skills in rural…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Role
Lieberman, Samuel – 1969
This speech emphasizes the significance of living literatures and living cultures which owe a direct debt to the Romans and the Greeks from whom they can trace their origins. After commenting on typical rejoinders to the question "Why study classical languages?" and poking fun at those who advance jaded, esoteric responses, the author dispels the…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Attitude Change, Classical Languages, Classical Literature
Petras, James; Zemelman, Hugo – 1969
The major purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the formation of a new structure of authority and the process of change from capitalist oligarchy to pluralistic collectivism--an aspect of political development. A case study is based upon interviews with 12 informants who were involved in the seizure of a large farm from its owner. The…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Agronomy, Collective Bargaining, Collective Settlements
Dillingham, Harry C. – 1969
The failure of a property tax levy, submitted to Cincinnati voters in November and December of 1966, resulted in an announced reduction within the school district's summer school, kindergarten, and interscholastic athletic programs. To determine the effect of this reduction on voter support for the schools, a stratified sample of 520 registered…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Extramural Athletics
Farber, Bernard – 1968
Concerned with mental retardation as a social product, the following topics are discussed: mental retardation as a social phenomenon, the concept of the retarded as surplus population, labeling and incompetence in relation to life chances, mental retardation as deviance and as incompetence, and findings on the prevalence of retardation in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Community Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs
Keskiner, Ali; And Others – 1969
The purpose of this study was to develop a "Foster Community" which is a small town in which local residents welcome ex-psychiatric patients and interact with them in a manner that evokes no community censure or disruption of personal life styles. The first facet consisted of the organization of a series of activities to reduce the social distance…
Descriptors: Community, Community Attitudes, Community Cooperation, Community Education
Hazard, Francis E. – 1974
The study assesses expectations by the general public of a specific 2-year, post-high school institution of higher education, identified as a university branch, and sought to determine, insofar as they affected the role and mission of the university branch, (1) the public image of the university branch under study, (2) broad purposes and needs,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Planning, College Role, Community Attitudes
Mapleton Public Schools, Denver, CO. – 1972
In order to provide a direction for this school district's compliance with the Colorado Accountability Act, a needs assessment survey was developed. The method of approach, format and item selection, testing of the instrument, population samples, sizes and significance, and processing of the data are described in an introduction. The Satisfaction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics
Glaser, Daniel; Snow, Mary – 1969
The New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission undertook a survey of the state to gather information on community attitudes and knowledge of drugs and drug abuse. An extensive questionnaire (see TM 001 085) was administered to a sample of 6105 persons, representative of the state, who were 13 years old or older. The research findings and…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Community Surveys
Metropolitan Toronto School Board (Ontario). Study of Educational Facilities. – 1972
This report is the result of the first year evaluation of 16 open plan schools built by SEF, four NonSEF open plan schools, and four traditional plan schools in an effort to compare SEF schools with nonSEF schools and open plan facilities with traditional plan facilities. The study was intended to gather information about the adequacy of these…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Attitudes, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities
