Jacqueline D. Spears

Rural Communities: Legacy and Change.

Contents Part One: Components of Rural Community: Community Capitals * 1. The Rural Landscape and the Importance of Place * 2. Natural Capital * 3. Cultural Capital and Legacy * 4. Human Capital * 5. Social Capital and Community * 6. Political Capital * 7. Financial Capital * 8. Built Capital Part Two: The Transformation of Community Capitals in a Changing World * 9. The Global Economy 10. Consumption in Rural America * 11. Governance * 12. Generating Community Change

Orientation for the new teaching assistant—A laboratory based program

A traditional part of the “education” of a physics graduate student is facing his first class as a teaching assistant. Unfortunately, the most the new teaching assistant learns from this encounter is how little he knows about teaching. The laboratory instructors orientation program at Kansas State University offers the instructors an opportunity to see some of the problems he will face and some methods for handling them before he begins teaching. The program, which includes introductions to Transactional Analysis and Piagets theory of intellectual development, is based on laboratory experiences undertaken by the new instructor before classes begin.

Student attitudes toward science and society

The Schwirian Science Support Scale has been utilized to study the attitude toward science and its interrelationship to society of a broad cross section of nonscience students. In spite of the development of a counterculture antagonistic toward science, this study indicates that these students appear to accept those societal values important for the support of science.