This document comprises a collection of workshop papers addressing the issues of doing research on the complex social and human problems faced in any community from an Asian American perspective. The following topics are discussed: (1) the nature of community research; (2) the pros and cons of pure basic and applied research; (3) the nature and…

Institutional research reports produced at the 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College System are listed in this bibliography for the academic year 1976-77. The 118 studies are listed in three sections. Section I provides annotations for studies selected on the basis of their anticipated interest, study design quality, narrative sections on…

A COMMUNITY PROFILE OF ROCHESTER, N.Y. CITES HISTORY, PRESENT COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS, AND CURRENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS AS THEY RELATE TO CULTURAL DEPRIVATION AND AN ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM. TO DETERMINE WHAT EFFECTS HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL FORCES HAVE UPON HEAD START CHILDREN, MATCHED GROUPS OF EIGHT HEAD START…

This study investigates how 40 working-class women participate as volunteers in the service, political, and social action arenas of their community--Carondelet, on the South Side of St. Louis. The purpose is to show that working-class women who live in transitional areas are capable of politically addressing the urban problems intruding into their…

This manual is intended for use by social service aide trainees in the New Careers Program and provides description and explanation of the history and background of social welfare, social services, skills important in individual services, clerical and administrative activities connected with social services, and procedures for working with…

This study was commissioned to provide data related to program and facility needs of the community college proposed in the Lewiston-Auburn area. A brief history of the two-year college movement in general, and in Maine in particular, is followed by descriptions of three area surveys. The High School Survey of 2,246 junior and senior year students…

Increased United States involvement in world affairs has been accompanied by an increase in the number of Americans living abroad in numerous American enclaves. Most of the commentary on such "overseas American communities" is impressionistic, superficial, and stereotyped, and tends to foster the notion that Americans are peculiarly ethnocentric.…

This guide, one component of the Resource Recovery Education Kit (See SO 007 866 for a description), contains ideas and activities for teaching about solid waste disposal in secondary level industrial arts classes. Among the course objectives are the following: (1) to understand that litter represents a small but highly visible portion of our…

Reported on here is a study that was concerned with the impact of the development of a middle-school program on the long-range need for educational facilities in the Atlanta Public Schools. The decision was made by the Atlanta Board of Education to implement a middle-school program, and several new middle-school facilities have been planned and…

The social studies resource unit, the first of four in this course, outlines content dealing with the concept of community, helping third grade children to identify basic properties of any community. Specific objectives are described in the areas of culture, social organization, social processes, location, and cultural uses of environmental…

This project was launched to discover if the communications gap between technical information about educational issues and lay consumption of the data could be breached. One of these issues, the financing of public education, was selected, and an investigation was launched to ascertain how written communications about educational finance could be…

This bibliography deals with ethnic settlement patterns in urban areas. The emphasis is on factors that determine initial settlement, subsequent intraurban migration and community growth, and their relationship with the more general questions of urban structure and growth. The selection is by no means exhaustive, and was not compiled in any…

Included in this booklet are content information, teaching techniques, and ways to study about the home community for geography teachers. The author suggests that the home community should be the base of operations in geographic learning at all geographic levels. The home community, the place where people have common interests, is discussed as a…

Describes a teacher-training program designed to give nonrural students the knowledge, background, skills, and attitudes necessary for successful rural teaching and living. Outlines the two-year course of study which emphasizes early field experience and includes topics such as rural demography, personal satisfaction predictors, and alternative…

A theoretical analysis of how nonformal education by radio represents a less expensive/more effective strategy for transmitting skills, knowledge, and values, increasingly likely to be adopted and directed toward adults in rural areas of developing countries. Illustrated with material from fieldwork in Huayacocotla, a village in Veracruz, Mexico.…