This report summarizes a Unesco-sponsored study of indicators of international communication and socioeconomic development. Following a brief description of the background, purpose, and methodology of the study, the report discusses its findings in the following areas: (1) communication and social indicators; (2) communications and the growth of…

This UNESCO publication is the fifth in a series of background papers on various aspects of curriculum design, developed by The International Working Group on Curricula Design in Engineering Education. It presents a general approach to design and describes a framework within which a curriculum can be developed. The booklet comes in two main parts.…

This report of a 10-month study performed at the Institut Danois des Echanges Internationaux de Publications Scientifiques et Litteraires (IDE) on its exchange program for duplicate monographs provides an analysis of the working methods and time spent on the various phases, i.e., acquisition, processing, and distribution. The major function of the…

The document addresses past, present, and future issues concerning women througout the world. It is presented in seven chapters. Chapter I discusses women as the invisible "fifth world." The author contends that this fifth world exists, uncounted and unassisted, on every continent. Chapter II traces the role of women throughout history. The…

This paper reviews major theories related to the role of education in economic development and presents results of several empirical cross-national studies that have analyzed this relationship. Most research on the role of education in developing nations has concluded that modernization of national educational systems will facilitate national…

The purpose of this monograph is to examine changing perspectives of rural development in an effort to better understand change in rural social systems via analyzation of interactions between social systems in general and between the U.S. and Asian countries in particular. Initially, an analytic framework is presented which describes intersystem…

As the first of a three-part comparative study on the administration of audiovisual services in advanced and developing countries, this UNESCO-funded report obtained information on the structure, organization, functions and operations of the national audiovisual centers serving elementary education in the western European countries. In order to…

As the third of a three-part comparative study on the administration of audiovisual services in advanced and developing countries, this UNESCO-funded report describes the educational systems of the United States and Canada, the audiovisual services at the local and state/provincial level, and the national audiovisual support services. Also…

The purpose of this paper is to assess the predictive utility of several measures of the overall state of societal systems, as well as to determine the degree of overlap of the different measures. Data for 74 nations representing all geographic areas of the world are presented and analyzed. The 5 measures of societal systems chosen for comparison…

An outline of the increasing amount of change required of modern man, specifically in Czechoslovakia, to cope with the demands of a rapidly advancing technology is presented. Consideration is given to leisure time, work requirements, and educational needs. (CK)

This paper presents some principles related to the process of curriculum development, evaluation, and implementation. It introduces the concepts of balance and relevance as criteria for judging the adequacy of an educational programme and presents a model for generating and selecting educational objectives. It then describes two functions of…

International development is broadly discussed in terms of various economic organizations, especially the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). It is suggested that developing nations need nonformal, adult education programs which are linked to the realities of production, employment, and social development. (LH)

A flexible, transferable computer assisted instruction (CAI) system has been developed at the Twente University of Technology, Holland, for use in association with a first course in digital engineering. Written in APL, it is designed to be modular in nature, and thus easily extendible. (Author/CMV)

Discusses five main components in teaching on-line bibliographic searching: (1) general introduction, (2) specific introduction, (3) demonstration search, (4) live search, and (5) assessing search results. Methods of demonstration involving videotaped searches, audio cassettes, and digital cassettes as well as live demonstrations are analyzed as…

Describes a project designed to equip Algeria with a training institute for engineers and technicians based on the American experience. Initial and implementation phases of this institute established with the cooperation of ten American universities and industrial firms are presented. (HM)