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Carpenter-Huffman, P.; And Others – 1974
This book examines the process of change in American public education, focusing in particular on various experiments in performance contracting that were conducted between 1969 and 1973. Chapter 1 briefly reviews the process of change in education and describes the performance contracting concept and the ways its advocates expected it to overcome…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Leithwood, K. A.; And Others – 1976
This book describes and analyzes the processes involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Peterborough County (Ontario) Mathematics Project (PCMP), a districtwide mathematics program. Apart from describing the features of the PCMP, the book is intended to provide insights into the complexities of school change. The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
Ellner, Carolyn Lipton; Barnes, B. J. – 1977
Described in this study is a two-year experimental program in teacher education which provided 14 student teachers with opportunity to experiment with the process of schooling and to learn from it. As a result, six community-based vacation schools were created. Specific sections of the book deal with: (1) the challenge of the times (late sixties)…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs, Experimental Schools
Clippinger, John H. – 1976
To identify the distribution of benefits that accrue from introducing communications technology in developing societies, two case studies were undertaken. The first case looks at telecommunications development in Algeria where telecommunications systems are being rapidly introduced to speed up industrialization and where a satellite system is in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communications, Communications Satellites, Developing Nations
Educational Innovation in Indonesia. Experiments and Innovations in Education, No. 13. Asian Series.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1975
The last in a series of reports on educational innovation in Asia, this study describes the educational experiments and reforms attempted in Indonesia from 1969 to 1973. The introductory section provides an historical background and describes the educational administration of Indonesia. Chapter one focuses on the innovations in planning,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Belknap, Robert L.; Kuhns, Richard – 1977
Curriculum development efforts at Columbia University occurring as a result of social changes and four years of seminar discussions are analyzed, and the seminar transactions and resulting programs discussed. A detailed description is given of Columbia's General Education Program, established after World War I. It is shown how and why the original…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
