The concept of education has been changing; "human development" is a more accurate description of what we do. Turbulences in society which have the greatest bearing on the future of continuing education include the failure of the United States in distributing social goods; changes in the nature of administration; modern communications which extend…

In a community confrontation program with police and community members, group leaders face many problems dissimilar from those found in group therapy. Dealing with authority (police) was difficult when the leader held a low self-esteem. Dealing with very vocal, rebellious community members presented difficulties in accepting their reports as truth…

The article uses the Israeli kibbutz of Degem as an example of community planning in an almost ideal setting, yet illustrates how the presence of special interest groups and factional groups complicates pursuing and achieving common objectives. (AG)

Discusses five programs in which high school students identified authentic community needs and used their journalistic skills to reseach and report about them and which are among many programs in the files of the National Commission on Resources for Youth. (JM)

Advocates sending news reporting students off campus and into the community to expand their horizons, interests, courage, and possibilities. Describes the use of such experiential learning in a broadcast reporting class, where students left the cameras at home as they experienced the police or social services sector, and wrote an in-depth story…

This statement of the Safer Society Foundation is designed to assist states considering public notification when convicted sex offenders are released to the community. It considers the impact of public notification on the greater community, including citizens, families, victims, and offenders. (DB)

Four types of theatre uses in adult education are theatre for education, for development, for conscientization, and popular theatre. The latter involves a group's interpretive study of its own social, economic, cultural, and political conditions, leading to collective action. (SK)

This case study discusses the deconstructions and synergies of problem-based learning (PBL) and community-based project-organized education. The growing literature on these methods lacks in coverage of their synergies and their applicability to meaningful projects with communities as partners. Community-based learning is inherently problem based…

Judy Nelson thinks it's important to understand what the community wants for its young people, "which means lots of listening." We need to give taxpayers more good reasons to support libraries, she says, and the community's problems and unmet needs are opportunities for libraries to be an integral part of the solution. One problem Nelson…

Conflicts over changing uses of natural resources are familiar within communities of the Western US and are usually resolved through legal processes. This paper analyzes resource conflict through juxtaposing impact analyses often used in their juridical resolution with discourse analyses of affected rural communities. The purchase of property by a…

The problems of textbook selection and related social and political issues are presented from the point of view of an involved school administrator. (DW)

The collection of materials is intended to provide for the needs of elementary school teachers who have needs for resources for energy education. The document is divided into three sections. The first section discusses human energy, energy use in home and school, and the relationship of the individual to the energy problem. A second section…

Research indicates that the impetus to solve pollution problems may have to come from processes outside the realm of ordinary problem solving institutions. Mass media exposure and involvement in the political process are ineffective in generating antipollution sentiment. "Grass roots" movements based on informal communication may emerge to combat…