A rationale for sex education introduces a curriculum guide which includes suggested steps for developing programs with the retarded and which is organized into curriculum content, sample activities, and resource material. Expanded in outline form are these topics: awareness of self, physical changes and understanding of self, peer ralationships,…

This handbook serves as an introduction to the research literature in the various fields of education, citing those titles considered to be most useful to the graduate student or advanced undergraduate making his first acquaintance with educational research. The first part, Educational Research--General, cites and annotates those tools with which…

An operational definition of the standard for learner achievement at Level 2, with respect to the skills of reading and writing, was proposed for Spanish as one aspect of a research project. The method described, serving as the basis for articulation of level achievement, deals with general procedures, proposed operational definition of reading…

This survey on the extent and nature of kindergarten education in the public schools is the last in a series of three NEA Research Division reports dealing with early childhood education. This study concerns status, major administrative plans, organizational patterns, curriculum experiences, and personnel provisions pertaining to kindergarten…

Geography teachers have available to them a wide variety of audiovisual aids. But the methods by which these materials should be used to produce the greatest impact upon learning deserve careful consideration. The Audio-Visual-Tutorial (ATV) laboratory at Carroll College purposes to improve the content of the freshman-sophomore course in physical…

This 185-item bibliography with English abstracts of books and articles of recent years on various aspects of Indian education includes a special section on women's education. Emphasis is placed on educational psychology, examination and evaluation (teacher and student), policy and planning, teaching methods, and special education. Less extensive…

Most of the important educational issues for the country are represented in problems of urban education. This report concentrates on one of the practical issues for the urban education policy maker--education policy for the poor minority child who lives in the inner city. It concerns educational policy for the inner city over the next 10 years.…

Emphasizing social and economic growth of the educable retarded secondary student, provision is made for lesson and unit plans which give information on vocational and educational opportunities and which develop habits, attitudes and skills necessary for the individual to hold a job. The basic skills to be taught, books and materials useful in…

The objectives, content, methods, and scope of French instruction for each level of a 3-year FLES program are delineated in this curriculum guide. In the first part, an audiolingual approach is advocated, and specific techniques are suggested for teaching language skills, grammatical structures, and cultural backgrounds. Also discussed are the use…

The objectives, content, methods, and scope of Spanish instruction for each level of a 3-year FLES program are delineated in this curriculum guide. In the first part, an audiolingual approach is advocated, and specific techniques are suggested for teaching language skills, grammatical structures, and cultural backgrounds. Also discussed are the…

This collection of 44 program descriptions, compiled from reports solicited from directors throughout the nation, is intended as a reference source on a variety of alternative approaches to the training of various educational personnel. Each entry includes listing of collaborating agencies, director's address, and funding sources (most were at…

This study attempted to show that preparation for and use of an audiovideo dial-select information retrieval system in a new middle school could help to change the teacher's role from that of dispenser of information to guide in an independent learning situation. Because of unavoidable delays in the installation of the dial-select equipment, the…

This final administrative report describing seven language-related programs in the Foreign Language Innovative Curricula Studies (FLICS) project includes program description and objectives, evaluation reports, testing materials, and program costs. A Bilingual Curriculum Development Program was to develop materials in the teaching of standard…

This document contains abstracts of approximately 300 papers presented at the 1967 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. A sampling of the varied subjects covered includes: dynamics of the school board role, concept learning, programed instruction, administrative behavior and organizational characteristics, correlates of…

Philosophy, psychology, and educational objectives of second language learning on the high school and junior college level are discussed and illustrated. Perspectives on the teaching of pronunciation, grammar, reading, and conversation are offered. An organic conception of language, its implementation, and its relation to vocabulary building are…