Examines satellite-based networks and describes educational initiatives that facilitate access to new student populations in distance locations, sustain transborder collaboration and research, and promote curricular enhancement and enrichment. Highlights include technical fundamentals, regulations and standards, operational considerations,…

In a question-answer interview, a former national project director in Iran highlights some of the achievements in an experimental functional literacy project conducted in an agricultural area and an industrial region of Iran. (AG)

A foreign language course designed to teach students through role playing situations is described. (DE)

The seventeen papers presented in this publication review various programs and issues in elementary school science. At least one paper is devoted to each of these programs: The United Kingdom program Science 5/13; The African Primary Science Program; The Tel Aviv Elementary Science Project; UNESCO Program in Junior Science Teaching; The Philippine…

The immediate purpose of this consultation paper is to plan for a proposed seminar or seminars which would offer training to personnel concerned with the development of population education and its introduction in education systems. Some aspects of the broader setting for this training are briefly sketched, such as: a) the formal actions taken by…

This article is the text of a statement adopted at the 1975 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Environmental Education Workshop. It includes an assessment of the global environmental situation and a statement of goals for environmental action. The need for world-wide environmental education programs is…

This draft, generated by the conference, "Implications of Life-Long Education for Interdisciplinary Curriculum Oriented Toward International Education," (Federal Republic of Germany) proposes associated schools as action centers where learning and experience are tied to social reality and from which curriculum experimentation can be…

International cooperation for scientific advancement in developing countries is recognized as possible and necessary. Areas of manpower shortage and feelings of isolation among physicists could be partially solved by modifying science education programs for foreign students in the United States. Several programs in physics departments and…

This policy statement of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities attempts to clarify the obligations and opportunities basic to fulfillment of the international responsibilities of higher education. International education is defined and its purposes outlined. College responsibility is noted and a call for commitment is made.…

For years, international literature has neglected the special features of educational planning in small countries. The recognition of small countries has increased over the last two decades, as they have begun to play a more important role in world politics. This three-part book evaluates the nature of the ecology of small countries and its…

Despite the phenomenon of cooperation and collaboration between and among nations in many areas, networks for the benefit of education are nearly nonexistent in Western Europe. A "network" means the collaboration between educational institutions in the field of curriculum development, training, research, dissemination, transfer, and implementation…

The recent evolution of instructional programs in colleges of agriculture has made them more usefu" to society and meaningful to the academic community. Seminars aimed at improving the effectiveness of teaching have also improved the quality of faculty counseling for undergraduates and graduates. For more than 10 years, curricula have been…