Modern curriculum theory is predicated on the belief that the primary purpose of education is to change or modify the behavior of the learners. Curriculum, thus, consists of all the experiences the school provides to allow students to achieve the greatest possible fulfillment of their potentialities. Current curriculum improvement programs are…

This document contains the papers delivered at the New England Regional Meeting which focused on the theme of International Perspectives on Nonformal Education. The keynote address provides a state of the art of nonformal education and discusses its successes, limitations, and future challenges. The first group of papers presents philosophical and…

Fourteen papers from an international workshop on research into personal development relative to educational and vocational choice are presented in this report. Representative titles of the papers are as follow: (1) problems and designs in research on educational and vocational careers; (2) opportunities, pressures and constraints: research into…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 15 summaries of documents and journals on the back-to-basics controversy, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of the topic, such as…

This proposal is a plan to involve undergraduate participation in major educational issues which would be constructive for the development of an alternative school program. The summer period is envisioned as the crucial development period for the undergraduates and the design phase for the alternative school. In September, leadership training…

The purpose of the practicum described here was the development of a model for an alternative night high school. The plan called for a curriculum aimed at student interest and graduation requirements, a profile procedure for identifying potential candidates, and the operation of a prototype evening program during the summer of 1975 to test the…

In response to the Tenth Food and Agricultural Regional Conference for Asia and the Far East (August/September 1970), a comparative study of the different approaches already tried in the Region was conducted, and as the product of that study, this report briefly describes projects currently operating in India; Ceylon; Thailand; Malaysia;…

This paper provides a brief overview of Oakton Community College's (OCC) cluster organization, which is believed to foster offering of true interdisciplinary education. OCC is organized into four learning clusters, each of 30 full-time and 40 part-time faculty, 1,500 students, and headed by a dean. Each cluster is semi-autonomous; authority is…

In this critique, comments and suggestions are offered that might be integrated into future research by Scott, Yates, and Wheeless on the topics of communication apprehension and alternative instructional approaches. These authors suggest, in their paper, that one's level of communication apprehension should be predictive of attitudes held toward,…

This report summarizes the planning, preparation, and implementation efforts to operate a 45-15 pilot program in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This year-round schools project, undertaken in November 1971, required 18 months of planning. Electing to use a cycled-attendance plan, the program was established in selected schools to ascertain its…

This monograph reviews a variety of trends and programs in the preservice and in-service training of teacher educators. Diversified instructional formats are discussed, as represented in the Keller Plan, directed study, the Stanford catalogue of teacher training products, and protocol materials. The methods of computer-assisted instruction and the…

This paper approaches the task of defining basic teaching skills by identifying essential preactive skills. Piaget's model of cognitive development was used to determine the general goal of teacher training in preactive skills, to identify the three basic kinds of preactive skills necessary for teachers to learn, and to suggest the kinds of…

Over 120 films are listed which deal with alternatives in education, lifestyles, work, religion, crafts, and politics. Among topics covered are open classrooms, communes, changing family structures, day care, and racial problems. Each film is summarized; length, copyrights, date, producer, and distributor are listed. A brief bibliography, subject…

This bibliography includes an overview of the literature on alternative education. The overview places the literature under five headings: critical literature; reform literature; reconstructional literature; experimental literature; and directories, manuals, and clearinghouse information. (JF)

An educational program assessment of the University Without Walls (UWW), located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and known as "Flaming Rainbow," was presented in this document. The evaluation was conducted during March 27-30, 1973. The 6 American Indian participants, who are financially supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) Higher Education…