Describes two international meetings of adult educators, held in Costa Rica in July 1978, to learn about adult education programs in Latin America, to share information, and to foster more exchange of information among Latin American adult educators and colleagues in other parts of the world. (MF)

Describes a program of fellowships to educators offered by UNESCO within the framework of its Associated School Project. Reports from three fellowship holders are included. (DB)

Projects are described in UNESCO associated schools in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, Italy, Korea, Malta, Mauritius, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. For each project, information is presented on institution, project title, objectives, activities, and evaluation. (DB)

The origins of academic chemistry are described and the author's views on the future of university academic chemistry are presented. (HM)

Central governments must recognize the need for decentralization of development efforts, to plan programs specific to the needs and conditions of each target population. Development programs are characterized by program overlap because of diversity of sponsorship. A possible mechanism is a training and development center at the subnational level.…

Five guidelines are suggested by which instructional developers might produce large, meaningful, and lasting changes in teachers' performance. These are illustrated by a case study which involved nurse educators. Estimates of their successful application in this setting are described. (Author/JEG)

Includes relevant passages from the working document discussed at the Fourth Regional Conference of Ministers of Education and Those Responsible for Economic Planning in Asia and Oceania, five recommendations adopted by participants, and a 303-item annotated bibliography on the establishment of links between education and productive work. (JEG)

A brief commentary on major emphases in writing about composition in 1978 and an annotated bibliography describing 98 articles and books on the teaching of composition. (DD)

Describes the extensiveness and characteristics of instructional development activities in higher education as derived from the author's dissertation research, the purpose of which was to develop several models for describing and defining instructional materials production within an instructional development framework. The questionnaire used is…

In 1974 twenty-five students began a program offering a Diploma of Higher Education at the Bulmershe College of Higher Education. Last summer the first students earned their diplomas. Describes the objectives of the program, its content, and the outcome for the students. Suggests what the Dip HE's prospects might be. (Editor/RK)

There has been some disagreement and confusion as to the origins of the 1918 Education Act, one of three major measures of twentieth-century English educational legislation. This article attempts to clarify and resolve that confusion. A fuller understanding of the aims of this important educational legislation is also explored. (Author/RK)

Discusses problems encountered in formal procedures for examining concepts to determine how they might be taught and presents alternate formats for presenting concepts. Nine examples are included. (SL)

A speech to the 1976 annual meeting of the National University Extension Association addresses the problem of who shall control, develop, organize, provide for, and profit from the continuing education of professionals in our society. Attention is given to the concept of professionalism. (WL)

Describes the rise of compulsory schooling in the United States and then views this phenomenon through five different explanatory models. (Editor)

Evaluates the development of a language of movement, known as Labanotation from the inventor's name, Rudolph van Laban. Its importance for the measurement of dance movement was combined with an examination of the Dance Notation Bureau, which started thirty-five years ago. (Author/RK)