The Office of Educational Development, coupling humanism with technology, is a single major component of the educational development process of the Coast Community College District (California) in its continual effort to improve instructional programs. The Office offers a service function while the colleges in the district remain autonomous. Its…

This document reports on a project that developed, through case studies of various countries, empirical evidence of the impact of curriculum content and method on national economic, social, and political growth. Specific problems studied were (1) occupational education and training for development, (2) education's role in the formation of social…

This booklet provides a brief description of the community junior college movement in the United States and its progress in Arkansas. Comprehensive community junior colleges traditionally offer two years of university-parallel work plus additional courses in occupational education, continuing education for adults, and community service programs.…

This publication reports conference discussions concerning the rationale and strategies for curriculum development and its relation to learning research, school operations, educational and social reform, and curriculum implementation. The discussions examine the current role of the Federal Government in curriculum development and offer suggestions…

This 6-week institute, developed at the University of Texas at Austin, was designed to prepare selected professional personnel from developing community colleges to serve as institutional instructional developers. Thirty-eight participants were involved in general sessions, small-groups and independent study, laboratory exercises, and clinical…

This paper evaluates Teacher Education Centers developed by the University of Maryland in the District of Columbia and counties in the state of Maryland. The general purpose of the Teacher Education Center is reported as joint sovereignty over teacher education by colleges, state departments of education, schools, and associations. The program…

Following a brief investigation of the need for performance objectives specifying teacher behavior, this report develops a performance base for field experience. The purpose of performance objectives in field experiences and the relationship of these objectives to the student teacher, cooperating teacher, and university supervisor are discussed in…

Press extracts report educational developments in Europe from July to October 1971. References are made to Austrian curriculum reform; subsidies for Belgian community education; reform of the elementary and lower-secondary schools, and the establishment of compulsory sex education in primary schools in Denmark; language teaching in French nursery…

The purpose of this book is to concentrate on the effects of urbanization on education at all levels--an aspect which has, of course, been mentioned explicitly in the literature concerned with problems of urban growth, though usually in the context of social problems, town planning, etc. What is attempted in this volume, therefore, is to present a…

The 30 sixth and 30 ninth grade students, all of whom attended one rural school district in central Illinois, not only displayed a wider variety of behaviors than reported in the Inhelder and Piaget study (1958) investigating the development of logical thinking in children, but the behavioral components served to fill significant gaps in the…

Investigations and findings of the Temporary State Commission on Youth Education in Environmental Conservation for the State of New York are conveyed in this final report. A philosophical rationale introduces the report followed by a history of the Commission and a summary of its activities under the present staff. Highlights of six regional…

Stanford's multidisciplinary program (1) encourages the combining of a concern over educational policy and educational changes with the competence to make rigorous and imaginative contributions to policy and change; and (2) develops an awareness of the relationship among policymaking in education, fundamental research in social science, and…

A series of options open to the National Institute of Education (NIE) for coordinating its research and development function with other federal agencies active in educational research and development are presented in this document. Background information in topic outline form discusses: (a) brief synopses of major sponsors of educational research…

A brief history of the UCLA Practicum for Educational Developers is given as are the goals of the practicum and some of the obstacles in its path. The practicum seeks to train development personnel in the context of real development tasks, requires proven competence, is a team effort, and is based on the assumption that novices need assistance and…

The purpose of this guide is to provide background information and suggested procedures to help local administrators in planning and implementing a career education in-service training program. In-service training is perceived in a developmental mode, with the need for long-range planning for change for all education personnel. The document…