TO STIMULATE DISCUSSION ABOUT SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, A PRESENTATION WAS MADE AT A PROFESSIONAL MEETING IN OCTOBER 1967, DESCRIBING THE NATURE OF SUCH ACTIVITIES, DISCUSSING SOME OF THE ISSUES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF RESEARCH, AND REVIEWING THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNITED STATES. DIVIDED INTO THREE MAIN SECTIONS,…

This practical handbook for teachers of all levels and subject areas compares different approaches to values education. The book begins with a discussion of the role of values education in schools. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 define values and values systems, discuss the origin and development of children's values, and examine the role of the teacher in…

This report describes difficulties in educational reform faced by countries in transition, those post-communist countries from Eastern and Central Europe that have been changing their social, economic, and political systems since 1989. Romania is the case study used for this example and is viewed in terms of four stages: (1) deconstruction, an…

As the nations of the world pursue development, the role of culture is important to consider in development activities. This report examines the link between culture and development and suggests that a people's cultural traditions and practices can be utilized in successful development activities. The investigation functions on the premise that…

The issues of development, culture, education, policy, and strategy denote a global approach and raise questions regarding the contribution of education to cultural development. The misunderstood concept of development emerged from the 1960s decolonization and remains further away from the social reality in which international organizations work.…

Intended for trainers conducting preservice Peace Corps volunteer training, this manual presents materials to help trainees evolve an understanding of what role women can and do play in the developmental process and of its relationship to Peace Corps programs. An introduction discusses the design and use of the manual. The training goals are then…

This document consists of articles which have been selected to provide insight into different aspects of the relationship between the two most pressing and challenging issues of the current time. The first is the need to achieve a just level of economic development for two-thirds of the world's population that live in poverty. The second is the…

Social cognitive abilities were evaluated in 23 deaf students (3 to 6 years old) through tasks requiring spatial perspective taking, cooperation, and receptive language. As hypothesized, language ability proved to be a prediction of both other variables, with the high correlation between language and perspective taking indicating a definite…

This publication presents abstracts of currently active science education projects which are supported by the Division of Science Education Development and Research (SEDR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). These projects are directed to all academic levels to improve the quality of science education from the level of kindergarten to that…

This study discusses the relevance of social indicators for usage by less developed countries, examines the contexts in both the less and more developed countries with which social indicator methodologies must be compatible, and proposes a functional theory of society and societal development which offers a meaningful approach to social indicator…

This paper, in "Part I--Trends in Industrial Development"--notes that industrial development is continuing in developing countries, but with such discontinuity, diversity, and selectivity that generalizations are difficult. In the first development decade (the 1960's), industrialization did not fulfill expectations, and gaps in economic status…

This document, third in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to provide training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of sequencing and grouping criterion behaviors. Document content is arranged according to the steps involved in performing the task. This…

This document, eighth in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to provide training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of planning accommodation of individual differences. The document is organized according to the two sequential steps involved in…

This document on course goals in music is one part of a critique series dealing with the development and evaluation of course goals in six subject matter areas for grades K-12. The series provides an initial pool of course-level goals that are expected to be of considerable value in assisting educators with goal definition related to curriculum…

This report suggests that the goals of the 4-H youth programs in working in urban communities with inner-city young people are similar to those for rural area youth. They are: (1) to assist youth to understand his local community and the larger society, and to aid him in participating more effectively in community life; (2) to assist the youth to…