Stresses career education combining the efforts of vocational educators and manpower professionals in providing curriculums that are relevant to industry's needs. (MU)

The author, from Meramec Community College (Missouri), describes his approach to helping the development of community colleges in Arabia. Based on sustained correspondence and the adaptation of Meramec's programs to local Arabian needs, the approach has been mutually beneficial. It may be adaptable to other colleges and other countries. (MB)

Describes how industrial arts needs to be revamped because of changing concepts of work. (GR)

Describes educational program audits, what they are, what they do, and outlines a model audit system. (Author/KJ)

Vocational and technical educators must examine the ways in which the forces affecting the development of the field might interact with choices made by professionals if they wish the preferred future to be the one which actually evolves. (JOW)

Reports on a trip to the People's Republic of China. Focuses on the development of community-college-like institutions for short-cycle vocational education; education as a national priority; current educational issues in the country; and personal impressions. (DMM)

Sketches the early struggles and later changes that took place in the profession of English teaching. (JL)

Reviews the principal theories and practices in creative dramatics. Identifies three dominant approaches which have emerged in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and discusses their relationships and practical applications. (PD)

Government funding and the authority for applied research, development, and dissemination should be decentralized across program operations, not consolidated into the educational research and improvement unit. (CP)

This paper examines in detail how the Western type of education was introduced and developed among the Igbo at the primary or elementary stage during the colonial period in Africa. (Author)