A press release and preview guide describes a 20-minute film made by the Institute for the Advancement of Urban Education (IAUE). The film, which is based on a complete educational system developed by LAUE for urban high schools, is said to focus on the perceptions of inner-city students on how education can satisfy their concerns. It documents…

The proceedings of Phase I of the Italian University Rectors' Exchange Project, which took place on the campuses of three American universities, are presented. The papers and discourses are categorized as to (1) those that have some bearing upon university governance, both in Italy and the United States, and (2) those that focus upon the academic…

The guide is intended for teachers of profoundly retarded and severely multiply handicapped children in California. It suggests relevant methodologies and media for such children as well as sample curricula for use in Development Centers for Handicapped Minors and state and private institutions. The major portion of the document consists of…

Following a brief description of population control in the last 10 years, this paper outlines a Five Year Plan for population education. Four prerequisites to the Plan are presented: a) traditional approaches must be accommodated or bypassed, b) new subject matter must be introduced at the expense of current content, c) value spheres must be…

The monograph provides a brief framework for exploring individual differences of the American Indian student. The individualized program of teaching and learning is designed to account for individual differences in the broadest terms. Emphasis is placed on the idea that educators must address themselves to the knotty problem of changing the…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Western Australian report on secondary education. In Western Australia, secondary education is offered over a period of five years following seven years of primary education, the age of entry being over twelve years of age. Government secondary schools are…

Man's knowledge may be conceptualized and ordered into four domains or classes--formal knowledge, descriptive knowledge, prescriptive knowledge, and praxiological knowledge. In today's rapidly changing world of work, the key saleable skills are flexibility and adaptability. A secondary school program based entirely on the formal, descriptive, and…

Construction of an idealized decision-making model discloses four major curriculum and instruction perspectives within the rubric of the new social studies. The matrix is based upon the decision contexts of content and process and is designed to help differentiate between varying intellectual positions, techniques, and strategies. Patterns of…

This report on the NCERD/Teacher Corps competency-based teacher education project (CBTE) is an assessment of the extent to which the project's objectives were realized. Two methods of inquiry were employed. The principal method of inquiry was interviewing key participants on the Teacher Corps program. The secondary method employed was a review and…

This speech suggests some of the weaknesses in current curriculum planning and offers suggestions for its improvement. The speaker argues that current curriculum planning places too much emphasis on subject curriculum. For successful curriculum planning, the author supports these goals: (1) development of the self-directing, continuing learner;…

This report on the current situation in the teaching of the classics in England is intended primarily for curriculum planners in secondary education. Trends in research and changes now developing in the approach to classics instruction are outlined. Discussion focuses on: (1) educational trends and instructional objectives in the classics, (2) the…

This document contains the 1970-1971 catalogues of five universities belonging to the Federation of Private Universities of Central America and Panama (FUPAC). The catalogues provide information on university administrators and staff, historical background, admission requirements, degree programs, scholarships, and courses. The catalogues included…

Two sets of cognitive premises are identified. An attempt is made to state the premises of each set precisely, to draw conclusions, and to explore their implications for curriculum construction. The perspective is that of cognitive psychology, and the idea is to connect certain definite curriculum arrangements to stated cognitive premises. The…

Greenville Technical College's Educational Development Team (EDT), as part of the process of individualizing instruction, works with instructors in designing and implementing competency-based instruction and the concept of mastery learning, selecting or designing alternate learning modes, and improving the evaluation of both teaching and learning.…

The trends towards modular course structures is examined. British conceptions of modularization are compared with American interpretations of modular instruction, the former shown to be concerned almost exclusively with content, the latter attempting more radical changes in students' learning behavior. Rationales for British modular schemes are…