This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2019), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of…

This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2020), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.…

This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2018), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human…

We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the…

We welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2014, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 28 to 30 of June, 2014. Education, as an important right in our contemporary world, began since we exist. Knowledge and skills were passed by adults to the young, and cultures began to extend their experiences through various…

The titles included in this document are: (1) The New Teacher Center Program; (2) Teacher Corps and Teacher Centers: Forging New Alliances; (3) Teacher Centers: For Exploring What Schools Are Aiming At and How to Get There; and (4) The Detroit Center for Professional Growth and Development. (DS)

This report contains the proceedings of a seminar on "In-service Vocational Education Personnel Development for the 1980's," which consisted of two keynote addresses, a series of presentations, and group discussions. Chapter I, The Context of Inservice Education, includes three presentations: Philosophical Bases, Trends, and Issues for Inservice…

These papers represent the efforts of individual researchers from five countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands and the United States. Each paper reports on educational change in a different country, based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model developed at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of…

This document reports on a seminar that had the following objectives: (1) to study the links between current training programs for teaching and nonteaching staff and the staff's actual responsibilities and duties; (2) to highlight the new needs of schools, pupils, and society in general; and (3) to highlight trends and innovations in the…

This publication reports on a forum on competency based training (CBT) research in Australia. Section 1 contains biographies of presenters and panel members. Section 2 presents an overview of the research and highlights key findings. Summaries follow of each of the five key projects. "The CBT Decade: Teaching for Flexibility and…

This proceedings summarizes a conference sponsored by the Center for Rural Education and Small Schools at Kansas State University. Included are the keynote speech and abstracts of 46 conference presentations. The keynote speech, "Invisible and Silent along the Blue Highways," by Patricia A. Schmuck, examines problems of ethnic, racial, and gender…

This publication presents 98 papers reflecting the goals of the Association for Experiential Education, with roots in adventure education, which promotes the development, practice, and evaluation of experiential learning in all settings. Topics of the papers include: educational practices on all levels, recreation, outdoor adventure programming,…

At the Futures Conference held by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1995, discussants from inside and outside the NCES considered the commissioned papers and contributed their expertise. This volume assembles the papers and commentary and summarizes some considerations for policy, research, and practice in future operations of…

The following 26 papers, with abstracts and references, are included in these proceedings: "Panel: Continuing Professional Education in Cooperative Extension" (Robert L. Bruce, G. L. Carter, Jr., Ronald Jimmerson, Joan S. Thomson); "New Farm Families: Implications for Extension Educators" (Jane W. McGonigal, Robert L. Bruce);…

A position paper concerning the role of colleges and universities in corporate education, which was prepared for the Alden Seminar on Higher Education, is presented. In addition, a brief overview is presented of the April 1982 Alden Seminar meeting, which examined the current situation of higher education, particularly in regard to higher…