MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR: WHY PUBLIC OUTREACH?

Public Education and Outreach

Building Community Systems for Young Children is a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act. Each installment is written by a team of experts and provides comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California. Building Community Systems for Young Children has...

Public Affairs Quarterly

The purpose of this essay is to offer criteria for the identification of propaganda as a type of discourse, and for the analysis and evaluation of argumentation used in propaganda.1 Ten essential characteristics (as well as several other typical properties) of propaganda as an identifiable type of discourse are given. Some advice is given on how to analyze argumentation in propaganda, and to re...

Message from the Director - General

Public outreach: a scientific imperative.

Editor’s Note: In 2003, the Society for Neuroscience initiated the Science Educator Award to recognize an outstanding neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to the education of the public. For a description of the award, see http://www. sfn.org/sea. Previous awardees are Eric Chudler (2003), Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom (2004), Colin Blakemore (2005), and Roberta Diaz Brinton (2006). ...

Mental Health in Public Affairs

research symposia which were in themselves the reports of working Parties held over the preceding fortnight. Some of them have been already printed in various journals, but this book will provide a welcome opportunity for these to be re-read and for some to be studied for the first time. It will also bring back happy memories to participants. The subjects covered partnership in mental health an...