Program

Agency-wide Projects: Program Development/Planning Grants

Period of Performance

10/1/1978 - 6/30/1979

Funding Totals

$34,646.00 (approved)
$34,646.00 (awarded)


Community and Values: A Cross-Generation Dialogue

FAIN: AO-10455-78

New Jersey Education Consortium, Inc. (Princeton, NJ 08540-7121)
Merld D. Keys (Project Director: October 1978 to present)

To support planning, development, and pilot phases of a cooperative experiment in public programming involving the New Jersey Education Consortium (NJEC) and Courses by Newspaper (CBN). Using the CBN series "Moral Choices," the program will: (1) provide a framework wherein youth and senior citizens may explore cross-generational value differences and similarities; (2) relate those values to traditional concerns and methodology of the humanities; (3) provide a means where by participants may increase community awareness of values; and (4) serve as a model for cooperative ventures between CBN and non-profit educational organizations.