Showing papers on "Diversity (politics) published in 1973"

Patterns of Aging: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract: Negative stereotypes of old age have been strongly entrenched in our society, but they are now giving way to more realistic images of the diversity among older people, a diversity that is substantiated by the findings of social scientists. If a dramatic extension of the life-span occurs in the next few decades, the political, economic, social, and ethical problems for the society at large will be enormous; and it cannot be predicted whether the status of the aged will become better or worse.

Weaver's rhetorical theory: Axiology and the adjustment of belief, invention, and judgment

Abstract: Any complete rhetorical theory must consider the problem of adjusting beliefs to others while maintaining the self. Richard Weaver suggests an approach to this problem by deriving a logic of belief from a social conception of man and adapting invention and judgment to this logic. Weaver presents rhetoric as a means for discovering ways to transcend cultural pluralism and inter‐cultural diversity without foregoing our selves.

Famous women orators: An opinion survey

Abstract: This essay compares the results of an opinion survey concerning famous women speakers in America and abroad with a similar survey conducted in 1967. Students of public address now identify more women speakers and take cognizance of the greater diversity of issues, types of discourse, and time‐periods.

Developing Motor Behavior in Children: A Balanced Approach to Elementary Physical Education

Abstract: Internationally renowed photographer Dr. Paul Auerbach shares the excitement and pleasures of "a great dive" as he visits the world's most spectacular dive sites. More than 250 extraordinary photographs illustrate the beauty and diversity of marine life around the world.

The Political Limits to School Finance Reform.

Abstract: The sudden emergence of education finance reform as a major issue has produced a number of studies which have examined alternative ways in which states could raise revenue for education and allocate funds to local school districts. This study focuses on the political feasibility of some of these alternative ways of financing schools. Eight states--California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Oregon--were chosen for study to present a range in the level of state aid, average per pupil expenditure, interdistrict disparities, propensities to innovate, and region. The recent school finance legislative history, the current educational finance system, significant factors affecting education finance reform outcomes, and the reform efforts during the 1972 legislative session were examined for each of the eight states. The range of reform instruments--litigation, initiatives, referenda, and constitutional amendments, as well as legislation--suggests that the process of reform will be highly political. This study shows that the distribution of property wealth and income, the perceptions of educational needs, and patterns of urbanization will be critical variables in developing alternative proposals for financing education. This study documents the political diversity among states affecting education finance outcomes, and indicates that a single, national solution to school finance problems will fail to resolve the specific and different issues in individual states. Despite the diversity among states, however, there are also issues common to all states--such as the fear of the loss of local control or the concern that additional dollars for education "do not make a difference"--which act as political constraints on the adoption of certain approaches to the financing of schools. These common political issues are also noted in this study.

Community Involvement in Aboriginal Schools

Abstract: The following paper is based on experiences gained in schools in North East Arnhem Land. While it is likely that the situations as described are applicable to other areas, the authors do not claim that there will always be direct comparisons. Too often the wider Australian community regards Aboriginals as one people with one set of common needs whereas even limited experience soon reveals a great diversity amongst these people in terms of language, customs and environment and consequently a great diversity of needs and necessary solutions.

A Defense for Diversity: More Colleges for More Students.

Abstract: Unless aid programs , ce given more direction and funding, and unless an immediate program is initiated to make public and private tuitions competitive, the trend toward secularization of American higher education by default will continue. The process is harmful to both private and public colleges from a philosophical point of view as well as from an economic angle. For the state systems to bail out the private colleges by absorbing them is extremely expensive as a total solution to the problem of affording private colleges. While the main issue--ending the low-tuition policy--is considered to be against the best interests of state institutions and against those of many students, failure to deal with the volatile proposal may result in the continued loss of many private institutions, to the detriment of both sectors of higher

NATIONAL AUTONOMY AND WORLD ORDER: An Indian Perspective+

Abstract: government, but in terms of shared prejudices and of encouraging those trends that might lead to shared inhibitions as controls, through interna tionalization of contraints on our behavior. Unless you have fear, culture must be the infrastructure of consensus, and so we must promote a certain homogenization of culture in order to attain certain levels of consensus. These are some of our ideas. Some of them are being hammered out of interaction with other groups in the Project We find distinctiveness of approach as well as areas of shared behefs, especially on the Third World teams, and I would like to sum up by repeating the fundamental starting point of our team: First, that social justice is the primary value; second, the concept of social justice is culture-bound and heavily relativistic from one society to another; third, to expand agreement as to its meaning we must narrow the diversity of cultural arrangements in the world; and fourth, with the persistent fission in the world and lacking active and immediate fear, the only foundation for viable consensus is a wide range of agreement on cultural postulates. Whatever the precise mechanisms used, the world does need a more equitable distribution of both creativity and its dissemination. It is be cause of these considerations that the African team sees world order in terms of a federation of cultures, combining a global pool of shared achieve ment with local pools of distinctive innovation and tradiation.