As one of a series of team reports directed at knowledge building in the realm of non-formal education, this report presents three separate papers dealing with the economics of non-formal education. This report constitutes the final statement of a team of faculty members and/or research fellows. Titled "Economic Analysis and Non-Formal Education",…

Sociological models of professionalization are applied to recent events in program evaluation to study the development of the field and to predict future events. The focus is on problems that might arise and the necessity of ameliorating them. Available from: Pergamon Press, Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523. (Author/ GDC)

Reflects on the past three decades of increasing specialization and on the diverse conceptual frameworks guiding research in the field of educational administration. Describes heterogeneity among researchers, field-based research and policy studies, linkages across specialty areas, and key points of remaining articles. Fifty-three footnotes are…

The most difficult method of consultation to schools in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods is administrative consultation on centered programs and related to community issues. Yet it is an essential approach in dealing with the children's learning disabilities. (Author/ST)

Funds (1983) for National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research programs include $1,092,200,000 (NSF), $5.5 billion (NASA), and $119 million (EPA). NSF's science education activities were raised to $30 million in spite of the Administration's plan to phase…

Ways and means to improve the social quality as well as the effectiveness of scientific and technical research are described. The utility of the systems approach and model building is evoked. (BT)

Support by the government, sources of foreign financial aid, school libraries, the development of bookselling and the publishing industry, problems with duplicate resources, and professional librarian training are discussed in relation to Nigerian library development since 1960. (MBR)

Includes five articles that examine key trends in the development of the public Web: size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage; Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) for use in digital libraries; developments in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI); the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna…

Asks whether or not there is a need, which emerges inescapably during the course of human development, to identify some people as allies and others as enemies. In answering this question, it describes the potential for moral splitting within everyone, and the circumstances that activate this potential. (Author)

Points out the differences between a capitalist approach to development and a radical or political approach. Discusses the two paradigms and their variations. Provides guidelines for a classroom activity using this information, arguing that the use of this activity will bring about a greater awareness of development issues. (KO)

Analyzes M. H. Benin and D. R. Johnson's data concerning reciprocal influence between siblings' educational attainment. Finds unusually low similarity between older sisters and younger brothers. Uses Michael R. Olneck's data to model reciprocal effects between brothers' educational attainments. Finds evidence of reciprocal influence on brothers'…

Examines the service infrastructure of a rural township in South Africa and the struggle to acquire services like water and electricity. Discusses the interaction of a system of transitional local councils and tribal authorities in the face of local government elections. (LZ)

Describes the development of Environmental Education (EE) in Latin America and the Caribbean by highlighting formal education projects in the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Argentina that respond to local teacher needs. Suggestions future improvements include increasing effectiveness of teacher training programs with support systems, EE infusion…

Argues that equal educational opportunity demands different approaches for children from different backgrounds. Compares three phases in family economic and social conditions to those of a nation. Discusses (1) exploitation of children's labor on the subsistence level, (2) children as investments for the family on the industrial level, and (3)…