This book contains 17 papers prepared for a colloquium series on development and related research dealing with conditions and processes of learning, subject matter content and sequence, instructional media, and instructional methods and teacher behaviors: 1) "Organized Retention and Cued Recall" by Endel Tulving; 2) "Developmental Processes in…

Essentially, the COPED project attempted to apply to the public school system knowledge of, and experience with, planned change to create an internal change process that would increase problem-solving skills and improve interpersonal competencies of staffs. Operationally, this meant that each school system would develop its own capabilities to…

Educators have worked long and strenuously, but a unified English curriculum has not yet been attained. The language arts-skills approach, the communications approach, and the tripod approach haven't worked. Recently, modern linguists have argued that language study belongs to the liberal arts, not to the behavioral sciences; behaviorists have…

This 216-item bibliography supplement provides language teachers with a listing of materials drawn from journals, newspapers, books, and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Accession numbers of the ERIC entries are included. For the principal bibliography see ED 037 142. (RL)

The educational development programs of Latin American nations have frequently floundered because of an inability to plan, organize, and execute decisions effectively and to deliver resources with precision and dispatch. This study documents and analyzes Colombia's effort to resolve this problem in its educational institution through the process…

Increased environmental problems indicate a need for educational programs to meet the goals of environmental quality. Such programs would stress ecological concepts, appreciation for the outdoors, knowledge of appropriate outdoor recreation activities, an understanding of the interrelationships between nature and humanity, the development of…

This paper reports on a survey of methods courses at colleges and universities in Wisconsin associated with the training of prospective secondary teachers in communication. A questionnaire was administered to the 15 colleges and universities which offer a major and/or minor in what is called "speech" as certified by the Wisconsin…

This report examines the Ford Foundation's efforts in developing and implementing alternative schools to the public schools or in providing seed money to new alternatives designed for public support. The publication begins with a look at the origin of the alternative school movement and then describes several kinds of school alternatives assisted…

The problem of information and documentation in educational research and development is discussed in this European study. The relationship between the problem of information and documentation and the design of research and development is described. The narrative also includes: (1) the constituent parts of the problem of information and…

Symposium participants met to develop guidelines for developing curriculum for the area of business and office education, K through adult. The session reports are presented in outline form according to topic definition, problem areas, and recommendations. Topics discussed include: organizational patterns in the business and office education…

The contents of this document are organized in six parts, as follows. Part I "IBW and the Vocation of the Black Scholar," includes "The Vocation of the Black Scholar and the Struggles of the Black Community," Vincent Harding. Part II "Colonial Ideology and Colonized Resistance," includes: "African Independence…

Decision makers, policy makers, and influential special interest groups typically view many appropriations for programs that will help the poor, the handicapped, social deviants, etc. as mere expenditures and not as investment which produce substantial results. This paper sets forth several cases which illustrate that people can be an attractive…

This study attempts to sum up the present state of knowledge on the process of innovation in education through a synthesis of previous writings on the subject. The author approaches this material from an international and comparative point of view and shows the need for more systematic reporting of cases of change from other parts of the world.…

This course syllabus is part of the competency-based elementary teacher education program that was developed by the University of Toledo. It contains the ten learning modules which comprise the second course in the sequential elementary education program: a) Instructional Simulations and Academic Games; b) Preparation of Locally Produced…

This course syllabus is the third unit in the elementary teacher preparation sequence developed at the College of Education, University of Toledo. The nine competency-based learning modules included in the syllabus are a) Learning Theory and Motivation; b) Identifying and Specifying Behaviors; c) Observing and Recording Behaviors; d) Behavioral…