Argues that reading and writing in schools are two separate processes, and mirror the wider alienation of production and consumption that characterize the wider society. (RB)

Author attempted to approach the study of Eastern civilizations in the context of their own norms rather than to judge them by a Western set of values that regards technology as man's highest achievement. (Editor/RK)

Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association (Houston, April 1967)

This book examines the long-term effects of education on the values of adult Americans. To measure education's lasting effects the authors did a "secondary analysis" of national attitude surveys that had been conducted in four time periods from 1950 to 1975. Thirty-eight surveys that included 45,000 white adults from 25 to 72 years of age were…

THE MAJOR PRESMISES OF EDUCATION AND OTHER ENTERPRISES, WHICH ARE OFTEN NOT ARTICULATED, CONCERN THE PROBLEM OF THE MEANING, SOURCE AND IMPACT OF VALUES. EXAMPLES OF VALUE CONFLICT AND CONFUSION ARE NATIONALISM VERSUS INTERNATIONALISM, RELIGION IN THE CURRICULUM, AND SEX VALUES IN EDUCATION. THE PROPOSED AGENDA FOR THE ENTIRE EDUCATIVE PROCESS,…

Literature dealing with the relationship between technological change and value change is surveyed in this review. The emphasis is on the effect on contemporary American society. Most of the items covered were written since 1966. Topics include the contemporary situation, changing value orientations, social planning and the role of the social…

This paper is concerned with the question of how the value systems of individuals may be clarified and applied in the science classroom and in the real world outside. Science teaching is considered as occurring on three levels: the fact level, the concepts-process level, and the values level. The fact level was often stressed prior to the 1960s,…

The problem of peace is considered to be ecological. Ecology is the study of the complex interrelationships between organisms and their environments. To clarify this approach, three major types of social complexity--organizational, problem, and conceptual--are briefly reviewed together with their interactions and their effect on the individual. A…

If man is to have a future which is desirable, it requires a drastic and prompt shift in the values and institutions of his society. The industrial-state paradigm of the last few hundred years was useful for that time, but for the future it has several crucial failings. These include failures: 1) to provide each person with an opportunity to…

This directory lists 81 organizations that can provide information regarding literature, bibliographies, and other resources relating to various topics of science, technology, and values. Courses offered by colleges and universities are not included. All entries are classified to areas of interest such as: health sciences, religion, future…

Examines three aspects of family life that are evolving in directions that have no historical precedent--adolescent indifference to the family's identity that shows up in the discontinuity of values from parents to children, instability in the life of the couple, and systematic demolition of the nuclear family. (Author/IRT)

In this study, the most visible change from earlier value orientations was found in time, which shifted from traditional emphasis on future to present. (Author/AM)

The label "new realism" applied to some adolescent novels conceals the conventional values that are being affirmed in these books. (IRT)

The author discusses "academic" and "revolutionary" models of education as perceived in the People's Republic of China and illustrates the shift in official approval from the first to the second, with actual practice being a mix of the two. (MJB)