This year's E-Learn conference has numerous exciting presentations and keynotes. Many speakers will be discussing how education is changing in the forthcoming years. Among them are Dale Stephens who works with the social movement "Uncollege" that empower students to create their own education, Saul Carliner who talks about Massive Online…

The document contains papers from an interdisciplinary seminar on collaboration between medicine, education, and social welfare in the interests of the handicapped child. Section I contains 12 papers focusing on parent involvement; an historical review of treatment; medical, educational, and social welfare viewpoints; viewpoints on the legal…

The report contains presentations delivered at the Rhode Island State Department of Education's conference dealing with the identification of gifted students, the importance of pupil personnel services in programs for gifted youth, and the need for an interdisciplinary approach (administrators, counselors, classroom teachers, educational…

Participants were acquainted with the conceptual and operational details of interdisciplinary education in allied health as carried out in the Kentucky January Prototype. The program was developed in terms of the Health Team Model for the past four years, and has created a source of information on many facets of developing and programming…

These proceedings emphasize multidisciplineary theory and research having implications for behavioral science and/or education. The contributions deal with one or more of the following questions: (1) How can one characterize the knowledge structures which underlie behavior associated with subject matter disciplines such as mathematics and…

Presented are the proceedings of a 1975 conference on the aged mentally retarded which focused on the following needs: health and medical needs, emotional and social needs, housing needs, and financial needs. Explained is the design and use of a workbook distributed to participants prior to the conference. The delivery of services on the state and…

Presentations of both the plenary sessions and the business meeting are included in the proceedings. Topics covered include: reassessment of the function of graduate education; dimensions of graduate study; faculty and student power and roles in decision-making; interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and polydisciplinary programs; and grading. (LBH)

Proceedings and recommendations of the Rhode Island Arts Education Planning Institute are reported. The conference involved 127 participants including educators, artists, and personnel from arts organizations. A brief summary of the presentations of model programs includes exploration in sound, photography, and publication in the high school, a…

Presented are six papers originally delivered at a colloquium series on the problems of the learning disabled child, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary perspective. In "One Psychologist's Perspective on Learning Disabilities," J. Kessler provides an overview of the field with sections on definition and identification, etiology, testing as a…

This is the proceedings from a workshop that focused on the capacity of religious systems around the world to deal with environmental problems. Included in this publication are an introduction, the workshop schedule, a participant roster, and five papers presented at the workshop. Topics covered in the papers include: Religious Reconstruction for…

The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2011 proceedings, see ED518589.]

A report of a round table meeting on Anthropology and Language Science in Educational Development (ALSED) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is presented. The purpose of the discussions was to develop national strategies to take advantage of the resources of anthropology and language science to improve the…

Papers presented in advance of a workshop on "administrative strategies" for curricular change in the humanities and brief summaries of discussions taking place at the workshop are provided. Background papers include: "Curricular Change and the Humanities," by Edward A. Lindell; "Developing Administrative Strategies for…

Provided is a collection of presentations from a conference for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and educators meeting to exchange their concerns and share knowledge on various types of sensory handicaps of deaf blind children. The conference is seen as an introduction to the needs of deaf blind children and to the importance of stating diagnostic…

The task of a conference on social science education in the sixth form was to explore the problems and possibilities of establishing an integrated social science course. Conference papers and discussion deal with the nature of the social science disciplines and the meaning of their integration; the principles--knowledge, skills, problems,…