The Duluth (Minnesota) Public School district has established a comprehensive Quality of Work Life (QWL) participative management program. Operating since 1984, the program is structured district-wide with a steering committee and 35 QWL committees at building and program levels. School board policy and administrative guidelines provide direction…

The influence of a technocratic ideology in industrial arts education was examined through a critical study of a curriculum revision project. Qualitative methods of investigation were used to analyze and critique the curriculum revision process and product. Primary emphasis was on the curriculum meetings held to discuss and plan changes in…

Developments in Mexican higher education and an agenda for a national strategy for 1987-1988 are discussed in a paper prepared for the Mexican secretary of public education. Higher education has experienced quantitative growth and geographic decentralization of educational services. To accommodate the growth in the student population, increasing…

This report describes a 6-month study of Kenya's Harambee Institutes of Technology. Part I traces the history of western education in East Africa, explores the growth of technical education from the 1930's to the present, and explains the Harambee self-help movement, which emerged from the determination of the Luo and the Kikuyu people to remove…

The use of educational research in policy making (at all levels of education) in the Latin American and Caribbean region is considered with a focus on the contribution of researchers from institutions of higher education to educational development projects, reforms, and innovations as well as to the utilization of educational research results by…

This collection contains abstracts of research projects in agricultural education completed from September 1, 1986, to August 31, 1987. Abstracts on a wide array of subjects are arranged by state and indexed by both author and subject. Another section lists titles of research in progress also arranged by state. A total of 166 research abstracts of…

Prior to 1960 vocational and technical education in Singapore received little attention. After Singapore attained self-government in 1959, a policy of diversification to accelerate economic growth through industrialization was adopted. The emphasis then shifted to technical education and training. In 1964 there was a significant move towards the…

The inability of many African countries to achieve the rates of growth in education and employment which were forecast may partly reflect the over-optimism which characterized the 1960s, as well as the consequences of the decline in the global economic situation. There is also in Africa, as there is worldwide, a disenchantment with traditional…

Computer conferencing is a promising technology for use in adult education because it eliminates time and geography as barriers to learning for adults. A growing body of evidence indicates that the technology is a suitable means for delivering instruction, although a number of questions remain as to the optimum circumstances for its use. For…

This paper examined policy reform and conflict management in education. Specifically, the discussion focuses on expertise and experimentation as strategies of conflict management in Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany. The course of events during the reform eras is traced. The fate of comparable policies under different political…

This paper describes and reflects on the founding phase of the Center for Applied Research and Development in Education (CARD) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The relation between schools and a university is focused upon with a special emphasis on the relation between individuals in each institution viewed as education…

This paper describes the Avondale School District's approach to incorporating clinical supervision within the teacher evaluation process. The development of major teacher appraisal systems, their underlying philosophies, and their characteristics are reviewed. In addition, specific processes and training activities used to develop a district model…

Representatives of Canadian business, labor, government, and education met to share insights about the future of education and to formulate options for adopting the public school system to the challenge of the future. The keynote address delivered by Frank Feather, President of Globescope, Inc. and editor of "Canada Tomorrow," challenged…

Eight provinces and two territories have built a Canadian General Educational Development (GED) testing program. The Canadian GED program has a number of major Canadian characteristics that have evolved due to a certain inner logic set in motion as the provinces and territories joined the GED program. In order, these provinces and territories have…

Beginning with an overview of the Tanzanian education system, this essay examines the problems associated with school library programs in Tanzania and reviews the steps being taken to improve those programs and enhance the effectiveness of school libraries within the Tanzanian educational system. The actions of the Tanzanian government affecting…