This paper, based on data collected from questionnaires distributed among German students and from interviews with university professors and contacts in cooperating companies in both Germany and China, evaluates dual studies in Germany and their applicability to China. The study finds that most students are satisfied with the theory phase and the…

This report focuses on one of the State University of New York's (SUNY's) applied learning initiatives that includes work-based activities, e.g., co-ops, internships, work study, and clinical placement (SUNY Works). With funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, SUNY asked the Rockefeller Institute of Government to examine applied…

For the purpose of exchanging experience and promoting the work, the People's Daily newspaper in Peking, China, published a series of discussions on how to run May 7 Cadre Schools. The first seven discussions dealing with the objective of and guidelines for the schools and the attitudes of cadres toward the schools are translated in this journal…

This article describes how middle school students in China serve agriculture. Students are involved in inventing lamps which destroy insects, in surveying, and in mapping out underground pipelines and locations for pumps and spraying nozzles in a sprinkling system. (Author/RM)

Discussion of results of Ninth Five-Year Plan in education cites specific improvements in the education and upbringing of Soviet youth, such as new textbooks, new school buildings, and changes in labor education. (ND)

This article describes a school-run factory for third-year junior students in China. The factory combines education with productive labor and integrates theory with practice. Students learn and at the same time create wealth for the state. (Author/RM)

This article describes the educational program developed by one agricultural college in a rural area of China to carry out the revolution in education. Educational theory and practice are linked by involving students in the running of three forms.

This paper discusses accomplishments and problems in recent Cuban attempts to move secondary education into rural areas. Some of the theoretical implications of the Cuban educational reform model for other Latin American societies are examined. Prerevolutionary Cuban education was crucially deficient in its orientation to professional training and…

An educational program draws together students from several secondary schools in one region in a labor practicum which combines training shops, classroom work, and laboratory experience. Examples are presented of schools throughout the USSR which are training pupils to be computer and machine operators, construction workers, cooks, automotive…

The author discusses secondary vocational education programs and work study programs for adults in Sweden. (Author/RM)

Examines the role of production brigades in agricultural education of Soviet pupils. Identifies brigades' successes (integrated approach to education, nature conservation, interaction of labor and school, and agricultural experimentation), and identifies some unresolved problems (limited amount of modern agricultural machinery, small land area,…

Must adhere to Mao's policy that education must serve proletarian politics, be combined with productive labor, enable everyone to develop fully, and enable workers to have both socialist consciousness and culture. (Author/ND)

This article describes the educational reform begun in Guinea in 1959 and assesses the progress made as a result of the continual improvement of the reform. The basic principle of the reform is to aim at life-oriented schooling. (Author/RM)

In China work-study education is conceived as a way for every Chinese citizen to merge individual ambitions with the collective goals of the Chinese Revolution. Discusses the regular, full-time work-study program as it has developed in China from the 1930's to the present. (Author/RK)

Compares educational philosophies in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe with regard to relationships between school and the workplace. Concludes that work study programs are more accepted in the United States and the Soviet Union than in western Europe, where they are generally restricted to less intellectual pupils. Available…