Twenty-seven participants from Asian countries shared their country's experiences in population education. There are four major chapters to the report. Chapter one reviews developments, trends, and problems in population education. Examined in the second chapter are the needs, requirements, and action programs for the qualitative improvement of…

Research findings produce a positive argument for the inclusion of relaxation training in the school curriculum. Since today's children face a great deal of stress, they must learn coping techniques. Learning to relax at will is one method of learning to survive, because the relaxation response is incompatible with anxiety; the child learns to…

This report lists resources and resource agencies in Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia that offer services, materials, and assistance to those involved or interested in the education of linguistic minority students. The focus of the listing is on Title VII funded…

This handbooks describes 111 federally funded programs for helping disabled youth make the transition from school to successful employment. The programs are categorized into the following groups: (1) Handicapped Children's Model Programs: Youth Employment Projects; (2) Handicapped Children's Model Demonstration Program: Post-Secondary Projects;…

The maintenance of learned behavior is a problem frequently faced by teachers of persons with severe disabilities. The study examined the use of a self-management procedure to improve and maintain the work performance of 6 young adults (ages 18-20) with severe retardation in integrated job settings. Students were taught to self-monitor their work…

A career training program funded by the Job Training Partnership Act was developed in Loudon County, Tennessee, to alleviate the stresses that are described in the hypothesis that occupational aspirations and expectations are lower for rural, female, economically disadvantaged, and handicapped youth than they are for other youth. To participate,…

This book contains supplementary material for a British self-study course in management designed as an introduction to the course for the Certificate in Management Studies. The materials in this book are learning activities referenced to various topics in the course materials. The nine activities include a case study of a production supervision…

Graduates of a military-base extension program at the Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, Washington, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in occupational education were studied. Graduates are prepared to teach their occupational specialty at colleges as well as for occupational education work in government, private enterprise, and health care…

This summary of Council for Educational Technology (CET) activities begins with a definition of educational technology and a brief statement on its importance in the learning process. Activities, including involvement in both CET and cooperative projects, are then briefly described in 16 areas: (1) instructional technology (IT) in the curriculum;…

Work-based projects are learning materials that are designed to match the broad-based preparation for working life that the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) aims to provide in Great Britain. YTS aims to develop a work force that is competent and flexible, with the capacity to adapt its skills to new and changing types of employment. This guide…

In fall 1986, as part of a study of community college involvement in the education of adults, telephone interviews were conducted with administrators responsible for continuing education and community services at 95 randomly selected public, two-year colleges. The interviews sought information on enrollment trends, funding, and course initiation…

Eastern Michigan University is in the second year of a pilot program designed to promote law-related education and partnerships between the university and local communities. The collaborators in the project are the university, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, and the Taylor (Michigan) Public Schools. The goal of the project is to develop…

In an effort to document how existing industry sees the current status of trained technicians, the American Association for Community and Junior Colleges' Council for Occupational Education, the Association of Community College Trustees, and the Electronic Industries Association conducted a targeted national survey of technician supply and demand.…

One of the four case studies addressing access of rural students to vocational education through inter-school district cooperation, the Heartland case study represents the decentralized variation of the center cooperative school pattern, identifies essential features of this form of cooperation, details factors facilitating/impeding the…

The centralized secondary center pattern of inter-school district cooperation is examined in this third of four case studies addressing access of rural students to vocational education. The report identifies essential features of this form of cooperation, details factors facilitating/impeding the operation/maintenance of the cooperative…