Twenty-nine speeches presented at a five-state (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico) conference are contained in this report. A wide range of vocational education topics are covered including working with the disadvantaged, development and improvement of vocational-technical programs, personnel and staff development, and the role of…

This report presents the proceedings of the pre-conference seminar, "Careers and Management: Strategies for Women Professionals," which concentrated on issues related to (1) practicing techniques and strategies which can be applied to on-the-job situations, especially as related to career advancement and (2) developing methods of overcoming…

This conference report discusses four viewpoints on the changing makeup of the family unit. Reasons for these changes in the family (i.e., communes, unmarried couples, unisex marriages) were seen as deeply imbedded in the philosophical, religious, psychological, and moral components of life and in the technological and urban civilizations within…

This report includes the presentations of the speakers appearing before the National Clinic on Technical Education. Topics cover human resource development; the impact of technical education on economic development (in Mississippi); economics of allied health education; manpower implications of environmental protection; manpower needs for…

Addressing the conference theme, "The Most Effective Strategy for Rural Development", the papers presented in these proceedings include representation from: Australia; Germany; Hong Kong; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Philippines; Thailand; U.S.A.; and Republic of China. Papers are titled: "Community Development…

This monograph contains the 24 papers presented to the Third Annual UAP (University Affiliated Program) Conference on "Piagetian Theory: The Helping Professions and the School Age Child." Dr. Mary Ann Pulaski gave the major morning address on "The Importance of Ludi Symbolism (Make Believe Play) in Cognitive Development." The…

An overview is presented of the background and proceedings of a conference planned to share information on dissemination and utilization research conducted by National Institute of Education sponsored projects in educational laboratories and R&D centers in order to form a community among those who share similar research objectives and problems.…

This document contains all of the presentations given at the 1974 National American Academy of Advertising Conference in Newport, Rhode Island. The theme of the conference was "Perspectives on Advertising" and the areas of focus were curricula and instruction, descriptive and experimental research, cooperation between educators and the…

Twenty-four papers prepared for a conference on Piagetian theory and its implications for the helping professions are included in this report. The conference included the following symposia: (a) Present Status of Formal Operations, (b) Implications of Piaget for the Development of Curriculum, (c) Arithmetic and the Development of Logical…

This volume provides synopses of discussions at a meeting of project directors holding grants from the National Science Foundation for the development of instructional materials to be used in science and mathematics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The focuses of these discussions were new degree programs, identification and…

As a part of the Institute for Services to Education's (ISE) continuing effort to revise the curriculum and pedagogy of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP), the English staff of ISE brought reading specialists from the consortia schools together during the 1972 summer conference to examine the relationship of reading to TCCP. An…

The principal objective of the international conference reported here was to bring together people involved with the promotion, development, support, coordination, and funding of volunteer programs to exchange ideas and experiences. Part I is a short paper on the historical perspective of voluntarism. Part II, a summary of conference proceedings,…

The report describes the process and content of a cooperative regional approach aimed at introducing environmental education into the Adult Basic Education (ABE) curriculum. Tracing the purposes, planning, development, and design of the conference, the document offers need statements developed to serve as a general guide from which to plan…

The five papers presented in this volume consider the changing concepts, values, delivery systems, and needs for management which are a part of the changing context of postsecondary occupational education. Kenneth Hoyt discusses five basic kinds of changing relationships between education and work that have implications for changes, growing out of…

Reported are conclusions and recommendations from the Water Education Planning Conference held in October, 1977 in Oklahoma. The 51 participants, science educators, scientists, representatives from state and federal water agencies, and legislators, were given tasks and questionnaires concerning the national guidelines for water resource education…