A discussion of rationale and design of a laboratory for students of social work for which the goal is to describe a training process that may be a beginning of a total program of social work education. (Author)

This paper tried to show that education is one of the mechanisms developed by the dominant segments of (or the segments competing for influence in) Brazilian society, through direct initiatives and/or use of the political system, to enforce their respective interests. (Author/RK)

In the following pages, author showed how familial structures and processes affected educational roles, and reversing the approach, showed how schooling liberated individuals from the constraints they experienced in the familial context. (Author/RK)

In this paper, author discussed conflict and lack of conflict as they relate to the formation of manpower in capitalist economies. (Author/RK)

A listing of the various organizations involved in the improvement of women's studies and education offers services, addresses, and materials available for a classroom teacher. (JR)

Addressing the 54th annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, 1974, Wronski comments on the integrity of social studies, accountability, ethnic studies, career education, values, academic freedom, social pollution, and political and social institutions. (JR)

Shortcomings of the educational systems in developing countries are examined. Possible solutions are proposed including expansion at all levels, more technical education, less liberal arts, and literacy campaigns for adults. (DE)

This guide provides an overview of the National Education Research and Development Centers sponsored by the Office of Research of the U.S. Department of Education. Information provided for each of 23 centers includes the nature of the center's work, its location, and the names of its principal researchers. Center listings are divided into two…

Educational development in a country should reliably predict the level of wealth and its distribution. Undeveloped societies tend to have highly inegalitarian distribution functions. The development process accelerates this tendency by rewarding wealthy segments of the population that are in a position to invest in the growing economy. Finally, in…

United States educational history is full of uncertain reform attempts beginning with colonial New England's school reform goal of salvation in this world as a preparation for eternal life in the next. A more practical type of education characterized the Early National Period. Monitorial schools and communal schools, as in New Harmony, Indiana,…

Basic methods of learning, most of which have been used through centuries of recorded thought, are discussed, along with learning as a lifelong process, and ways to enhance and diversify modern education. Numerous learning processes are studied by examining the lives of great individuals who have exemplified innovative and multifaceted approaches…

Preparing school leaders should not be a dispassionate, value-free journey that produces administrators who are technocrats with neither objective curiosity or passion. Lewis & Clark, a small liberal arts college near Portland, Oregon, initiated an administrative certification program in 1981. The curriculum of this program focuses on holistic…

Vocational education planning is complex and extensive and requires the proper and adequate involvement of business and industry circles in program development. To rebuild their institutions and replenish adversely affected systems and depleted resources after World War II, industrialized nations have implemented education and training for…

Focusing on the use of networking structures as a means of promoting and mobilizing inter-institutional support for educational development, this publication reports on topics raised at a meeting held by the Study Group on Inter-Institutional and Other Co-operative Networking Structures. Chapter 1 reports on ways in which networking is taking root…

Considered the future development of art education in an interview held between the author and an associate professor of aert education. (RK)