This study was designed to examine how an intercultural communication course in speech communication affects students' responses to intercultural communication. It was hypothesized that students would show significant differences after participating in the course. Students from an intercultural communication and research methods course were used…

Assistance for school districts, accreditation teams, and education service centers in the development and use of local curriculum documents is provided in this publication. District responsibility to develop local curriculum guides has led to a lack of standardization, which in turn has complicated assessment. State requirements and standards for…

Workplace-based educational programs are not new. Recent perceptions of a national literacy crisis and the need for a competitive workforce, however, have resulted in the development of new programs across the country, many of which provide literacy and language training for nonnative English speakers. This digest focuses on the reasons for…

This handbook is designed for use in conjunction with staff training seminars designed to provide teachers and administrators with a framework and procedures for designing and implementing effective applications of technologies in the curriculum. The intended outcome of the seminars is the development of comprehensive programs including the…

Five papers on curricula for high risk and handicapped infants are presented, along with information on 63 curricula, 17 publications, and organizational resources. The first chapter, "Theoretical Bases and Pragmatic Considerations" (C. Dunst) examines major philosophical and theoretical perspectives and problems in infant intervention…

The patterns of acquisition of the passe compose and imperfect tenses in French among 16 adult beginning and intermediate students were studied. Based on 15-minute speech samples in which both verb tenses were elicited by seeded questions and cues for descriptive and narrative monologues, the intermediate learners had greater success with the…

Author attempted to develop some of the more salient ideas that Maslow had about education. (Author/RK)

It is the thesis of this article that a serious effort to decide "why" results in the teacher's formulation of a basic rationale--a consciously derived position upon which classroom decisions are based. (Author)

Examines curriculum issues in social work education in relationship to the concepts of ethnicity, minority groups, racism, and institutional racism and discusses social policy and the implementation of change in social work practice and education in relation to the current reality of the profession and the society. (Editor/JT)

Agricultural education is a recent addition to secondary curriculum in Sierra Leone. The author lists (1) justification for teaching it, (2) the Government's educational goals, (3) program planning steps needed, (4) tentative curriculum objectives, (5) central concepts to be transmitted to students, (6) guidelines on content organization, (7)…

The organization and weekly class schedule of the newly reformed French educational system is described. (DE)

Describes a two-phase program in which phase one provides the basic concepts and skills for later science study and phase two provides a real choice of science units to suit the needs of students. (GS)

To provide for curriculum flexibility a block of five courses is available in each department of Pershing College. One example: an in-depth study of a major problem, theory, or person in the discipline. The plan was successful for a small college with limited faculty but diverse, creative, and flexible faculty and student body. (JT)

Author commented on the new type of public institution--the first ones were founded in the 1960s--and on the segment of the American population it is designed to serve. (Editor/RK)

Author focused on the failures of many middle schools to realize their potential and criticized existing programs designed for middle schools while offering solutions to correct such programs. (RK)