The Roles of Youth in Society: A Reconceptualization

The 1980s have been characterized as a decade of platforms for educational change. In 19S3 alone, five reports were released by national task forces and commissions, all expressing serious concern for the future of youth and society, and all proposing recommendations for ways in which educational policies and practices might be altered, to address such concerns

Some psychological and social characteristics of patients hospitalized for rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, and duodenal ulcer

This study has compared male patients in a Veterans Administration Hospital with rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, duodenal ulcer, and certain surgical conditions with their brothers and brothers-in-law. With regard to achievement, desire for change and impulsive behavior, the ulcer patients were high and the rheumatoid arthritics were low. With regard to perception of parents the rheumatoids reported themselves similar to their fathers but more influenced by their mothers while the surgical patients were more influenced by their fathers. In the area of happiness the ulcer patients appear to have led quite happylives, possibly even happier than the non-hospitalized controls while the hypertensives are most unhappy. The perception discrepancy measure suggested that the rheumatoids communicate poorly with their relatives about their hurt feelings. And finally, the measures of aggressive and impulsive behavior separated the four groups of patients from their brothers and brothers-in-law and from each other in a way that is both striking and replicable.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/31962/1/0000004.pd

Creating a format for developing a curriculum tailored to the High School of the British Virgin Islands.

Since the islands fell under British rule, the British Virgin Islands High School has invoked strict education standards. Consequently, the curriculum prohibits creativity, does not properly accommodate learning handicaps, and does not provide students with a suitable technological background. Through interviews, investigations and pupil-teaching, this project has addressed all of these problems mentioned as well [as] developed a textbook that will modernize teaching in the British Virgin Islands High School. The investigation into the school's curriculum were made through test assessments, pupil interaction with technologies, including computer hardware and software, and calculators. Working with students in and out of the academic environment helped us to adapt to the customs of the island. All of these allowed us to properly assess the dynamics of the school, as well as the motivation of the teachers and students. Recommendations were made based on teachers' opinions as well as these assessments

Why is economics not a complex systems science?

The article argues that economics will have to become a complex systems science before economists can comfortably incorporate institutionalist and evolutionary economics into mainstream theory. The article compares the complex adaptive system of John Foster with that of standard economic theory and illustrates the difference through an examination of familiar production function. The place of neoclassical, Keynesian economics in complex systems is considered. The article concludes that convincing, multiple models have been made possible by the increase in widely available computing power available