This report evaluates a project to pilot-test workshop materials designed to facilitate increased participation of women and minorities in educational research and development. The pilot test involved three NIE/AERA sponsored workshops organized in conjunction with the 1980 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The…

These proceedings summarize the Fourth Nationwide Vocational Education Dissemination Conference that concentrated on the knowledge, tools, techniques, and topical areas needed by disseminators, linkers, and other change agents. Introductory materials are a conference overview, reflections on the conference, and the agenda. Brief summaries follow…

In this occasional paper, seven persons--a further education (FE) officer, two principals, the head of a specialist youth training unit, a plumbing teacher, a head of division of alternative education, and a Further Education Staff College (Coombe Lodge) tutor--give their views of the changes in further education in England during the past decade.…

Today's librarians must create an engaging setting for teaching and learning by offering a welcoming library space, a wealth of online resources, combined with librarians' expertise and collaborative instruction programs. Rapid advances in information technologies, new methods of teaching and learning, and the changing makeup of university student…

Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This volume, one of three in the subset of support information documents, describes the life role development model, which was…

This issue contains a special report on education in Papua New Guinea, nine reviews of recent publications and studies, and brief descriptions of 14 Asian educational documents. The special report discusses the political, economic, and historical background of education in Fapua New Guinea; describes goals of the five-year plan for 1976-80; and…

Intended for education decisionmakers, practitioners, policymakers, and others interested in the educational process, this guide represents a consolidation of information about the field of career education, and is designed to create awareness, facilitate user access, and broaden the practical knowledge of educational research, materials, and…

This compilation from a seminar to provide inservice education for large city directors of vocational education across the Nation contains the 21 position papers, working synthesis reports, and position statements presented in the following topic areas: (1) Vocational Education in the Large Cities: The Context; (2) The Role of the City Director in…

The first part of this document is the text of a speech which examines some of the critical events that American society will face during the next 10 years and analyzes these events in light of educational needs primarily at the elementary and secondary levels. The author first notes 15 social trends, identified through the efforts of Research for…

Relationships among student and college characteristics are studied in conjunction with colleges students chose and attended. Two data sets, one of students who were college bound in 1971-72, and the other of financial aid applicants who were college freshmen in 1972-73, are used. The relation between family income and college cost is examined.…

Educational development in Peru is discussed as part of a series surveying UNESCO's involvement in educational cooperation with developing nations. There are seven chapters to the report, which is written in Spanish. The first chapter describes Peru's national education policy, and discusses how it relates to the country's plan for national…

The 1978-79 annual report of the McGill University Centre for Teaching and Learning Services (CTLS), which replaces the Centre for Learning and Development (CLD) and incorporates the Instructional Development Service Project, is presented. The tenth and final year of the operation of the CLD and reasons for the transition are covered. Topics are…

The entries listed in this annotated bibliography were compiled to meet the needs of undergraduates and interested educators rather than those of the professional historian. Preference was given to items that had enduring value, had not appeared in other bibliographies, or that had been part of the periodical literature not ordinarily found in the…

Like that of other African nations, the educational system of Togo was created during the country's colonial period, and reflected the needs of the colonizers, not those of the native peoples. Education was elitist and served to further the government bureaucracy. After Togo became independent in 1960, it began to revise its inherited French…

This monograph deals with the philosophical and idealogical development of the Canadian Association for Adult Education (CAAE) during the years of Ned Corbett's leadership of the organization--from its founding in 1935 to his retirement in 1951. The first stage of transformation of the CAAE is discussed in terms of the association changing from a…