The Canadian Government has established the Educational Technology Program to encourage the effective utilization of technology to meet educational needs. The success of this program at the federal-provincial level underlies its timeliness and importance. In the area of computer resource sharing, the federal government is aware of the diversity…

This history of Greek education traces the path of modernization from the emergence of Greece as an independent state in the early 1800's up to the present date. Educational philosophy and content are seen as pawns in the social and political struggles of those years. Detailed coverage of the historical events describes the structure of education…

In this handbook is described a 7-State comprehensive planning process that incorporates goal development. A section on goal development explains what goals are, how they can be developed by the community, what happens after they have been written and accepted by the district, and provides several examples of goals developed by other State and…

The lives and contributions of nine women educators, all early founders or leaders of the International Kindergarten Union (IKU) or the National Council of Primary Education (NCPE), are profiled in this book. Their biographical sketches are presented in two sections. The Froebelian influences are discussed in Part 1 which includes the chapters on…

This document argues the need for improved procedures for planning educational change. Specifically, it argues for a marketing approach which involves starting with the real needs of a particular population and planning a coordinated set of products and programs to serve those needs. The authors focus on using marketing concepts and techniques to…

Two important assumptions are made. First, research and development capability is essential to the fulfillment of the responsiblilities and objectives of any state department of education. Second, state departments of education are uniquely different from other educational institutions and agencies in their purpose and, therefore, in the type of…

The purpose of the one-day working conference, held November 12, 1968, was to examine constructively the ways in which the present educational systems must change, the strategies for change already underway, specific steps that can be taken, and by whom, to make health careers more available to the poor. The accessibility of post-secondary…

If freedom of inquiry is a first criterion for assessing the educational undertaking from the vantage of a human resources approach, the second is understanding the varieties of human potential. Yet, except for athletic activity, American schools have concentrated almost exclusively on the development of cognitive skills. Our schools are belated…

This manual, aimed at all levels of educational development, presents procedures and suggestions for designing and conducting workshop in community-school relations. Part A discusses situations in which workshops can be beneficial, the objectives for a community-school workshop and the cost. Part B offers explicit directions for conducting the…

This work has been done as part of the effort to plan the National Institute of Education (NIE). The report, one of a series, describes the alternatives that must be considered in deciding the organization and management of a new Federal agency to conduct and support research and development. The alternatives examined are also germane to the…

This summary lists the conclusions drawn from future-oriented inquiry into the societal context of education used to guide the analysis of goals and NIE program alternatives. Areas of concern specifically identified were (1) policy-oriented research on the societal context of education; (2) decentralized approaches to increase the effectiveness of…

The general goal of the National Institute of Education (NIE) is to improve practice in all areas of education so that all Americans can benefit from the best education possible. To determine methods for reaching this goal, this report describes NIE's mission, examines possible organizational structures for NIE, discusses suggested alternative…

Change may result from product advocacy, laissez-faire competition, or change-process advocacy. The National Institute of Education (NIE) has adopted the last posture, whereby the agency advocates a strategy of implementing change by sponsoring a sequence of activities including need and capability assessments, trial of alternatives, evaluation…

In the first paper of this set, a paradigm which was developed in communication and diffusion research is adapted to define the educational innovation process in the form of producer-product-dissemination-users-adoption. Dissemination and adoption are subject to a number of factors, which can be further detailed. Previously innovation was seen as…

A summary of the overall methodology in science education is presented in this book for the purpose of serving as a source book for teachers, scientists, and science educators in India. The book is divided into ten chapters. The first two chapters are concerned with revolution in science teaching abroad and science education history in India,…