Part of the postsecondary educational system in Canada, community colleges offer several types of programs to both students leaving the secondary system and adults who want occupational training or education in the applied arts and human service professions. Like other educational institutions, these two-year colleges have sought to use new…

This paper reports information received from responses to a survey questionnaire from the presidents of 46 universities and their affiliated colleges across Canada. The questionnaire (circulated to all member institutions of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada) included queries about the experiences of the universities with…

This document contains lesson plans on three topics: positive expectations and the self-fulfilling prophecy, nonverbal communications, and time management. The lessons are intended for use by vocational and technical education teachers. Each lesson plan consists of an introduction, presentation, outline of instruction and summary, keyed to…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: models for college courses dealing with films and literature and with women in literature; the effects of selected variables on children's and adults' responses to…

This field-tested guide is intended to help 4th, 5th, and 6th grade teachers introduce students to different musical concepts through a series of ten 30 minute television programs. Produced by WETA-TV, Washington D.C., the fast paced, humorous programs expose students to many musical styles including vocal and instrumental jazz, bluegrass and pop,…

This catalog lists teaching-learning resources available for preview at the Michigan Consumer Education Center. A subject index to multi-media identifies titles of films, video casettes, multi-media kits, and games under seven specific subjects. These are (1) Factors Affecting Consumer Behavior, (2) Money Management and Credit, (3) Buying and…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 47 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effect of source variation upon children's reactions to television commercials; (2) covert observation as a means of measuring the affective states of…

OBJECTIVES OF THE TEN-DAY RESIDENTIAL TRAINING PROGRAM HELD IN JUNE 1967 WERE--TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF THE TRAINER, TO DEVELOP SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN WORKING WITH GROUPS AND IN IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY ACTION TRAINING PROGRAMS, TO HEIGHTEN SELF-AWARENESS, TO LEARN TO APPLY FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS TO PROBLEM SOLVING, TO INTERPRET LABOR'S POSITION IN…

This is the third of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…

The guide is intended to help teachers and administrators evaluate secondary level art programs and establish new programs. Two major sections outline a junior high/middle school program and a senior high school program. Each section includes a brief analysis of the developmental stages of early and maturing adolescents; objectives; a course…

Instructional materials and teaching approaches can be used to get students to seriously and constructively confront problems in race relations which they will eventually have to solve. For example, Richard Wright's "Black Boy," an anthology of Negro poetry or a collection of poems on race relations, and such films as "Where is Prejudice?" can…

This "concepts" guide contains explanations and justifications of learning activities for the ninth-grade oral-aural-visual (OAV) English program developed by the Indianapolis Public Schools (see TE 000 954) and funded under Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It emphasizes the coordination of saying, hearing, and seeing in…

To make comparisons between school districts and to establish standards for educational communications programs, each Director of Educational Communications in each school district in New York State submitted data about his educational communication program. In summary tables for each school district, the following data are presented: the number…

Intended for seniors at all ability levels, the one-semester course outline aims to aid students to analyze the American Indian's role in the history of the United States, and to recognize the contributions they have made in the western hemisphere. The general content outline and suggested activities cover the periods before and after contact with…

In second language learning, it is often the case that a discrepancy exists between the language of the pedagogical materials and that of the media or of the native speaker. This article discusses the advantages and problems involved in using authentic, non-didactic materials in post-introductory second language instruction, as found in an…