Explores the role of the social studies in Yugoslavia's nation-building process. Discusses integration of social goals into all curriculum areas and considers specific social studies goals, teacher training, instructional materials, and curriculum. Journal availability: see SO 506 831. (Author/AV)

Describes two mass media educational programs in Ecuador which utilize radio as an instructional medium. One stresses professionalized communication and has adapted American commercial advertising methods. The other stresses participatory communication and has extended the community development methods of the rural Latin American parish priest.…

This issue examines the following topics: comparative adult education (its scientific status and development), adult education research activity in system analysis, the inner structure of the system of adult education, adult education research and recently completed planning work, and the contents of adult education research in West Germany,…

The syllabus for Education 672, an introductory course on adult education at Ohio State University, opens by listing the five basic courses and describing course objectives (knowledge, skill in thinking, and development of interests and social attitudes). Subsequent sections explain the use of term papers and field visits and outline textbook and…

Accounts of open education programs from countries in Asia and Oceania are presented. Section one introduces the topic of open education, suggests a definition, discusses problems of access to educational opportunities, relates open education to higher education, and describes some open education techniques in training systems. Section two…

A review is given of the status of family planning education at medical, nursing, and midwifery schools in seven European countries. The report is presented in 11 sections. Section one, an introduction, explains the scope of the study and defines family planning to include birth control, pregnancy and delivery, problems of adolescents, family life…

The report, based on a six-month study as a participant-observer, discusses developments now under way in West Germany's Adult Education Centers movement. The article offers a comparative approach that takes account of trends in Europe and North America. It puts these developments into a philosophical framework, noting that Germany may provide a…