This document incorporates the findings of a project initiated to find solutions to the problems of planning, designing, constructing, and utilizing facilities to house career education on the part of educational administrators. Traditional solutions, continually increasing costs, and the need for greater emphasis on the learning environment…

The report deals with the program evaluation of the Pierre Indian boarding school located in South Dakota. The evaluation project was concerned with 3 major objectives: (1) an examination of the 1972-73 school program using a 5 stage model; (2) "backup and start over" assessment; (3) possible alternatives which may be derived from the…

Contents of this book, by the Dean for Academic Development at the City University of New York since 1969 and former director of City College's SEEK program, are organized in eight chapters, as follows: (1) The Educational Color Line in America; (2) Make the Cruel Oppressor Tremble!; The Early Search for a Theory of Black Higher Education; (3)…

This paperback presents an illustrated, first hand report of the changes in attitudes towards women and child care in China since the revolution of 1949. Chinese women are encouraged to take an active part in the country's activities. Extensive governmental programs provide women with birth-control information, prenatal assistance, maternity…

The document is a proposal for American Indian Studies (AIS) at Montana State University (MSU). The 7 Indian reservations in Montana remain isolated within the prevailing life-ways of the state, thereby becoming virtual economic, political, and social islands within its culture. Montana Indian education has been inexcusably low, with less than 200…

This address starts by explaining the educational philosphy of John Dewey. In this context, the central aims of education are cognitive and moral development. In a pluralistic society, the teaching of morals poses a grave problem and gives rise to a belief in moral and ethical relativity. This address proceeds to show what is wrong with ethical…

This teacher's guide to the text "Learning French the Modern Way, Book 1" correlates course materials with the New York State syllabus. The philosophy, course objectives, and approach to cultural instruction are discussed and the distribution of cultural content outlined. Suggestions for group activities and semester projects and remarks…

This paper reports some of the conclusions arrived at during a five-week Educational Provisions Development Act Training Program for teachers of low-income and minority students at the University of Akron. At that time, the contention that disadvantaged college students need affective recognition as well as cognitive recognition if they are to…

The Career Exploratory Program management system is designed to assist the local school teacher/coordinator in the organization and management of the program. The system defines and describes the accountability line from teacher-coordinator, through the Career Planning and Placement Center teacher/coordinator and the local school principal to the…

William Riley Parker's arguments favoring and supporting the post-World War II boom in language learning in America are criticized in an attempt to discover a more relevant rationale for language instruction in the 1970's. Specifically, the belief that world peace can be maintained and that international understanding can be considerably improved…

This report deals with the philosophy behind the Liverpool Educational Priority Area Project, a program of adult education for working class persons, and describes two of the programs in detail. Education in an EPA needs to be relevant, grounded in real problems and situations, and the emphasis should be on involvement and discovery. The first…

In England over the last 20 years there has been a major revolution in the teaching of primary school children. This revolution has come about through the efforts of wise, enthusiastic, and experimenting teachers rather than through the idealized practices and techniques of professors, inspectors, or administrators. This document gives an account…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the report generated by the National Curriculum Conference organized by the Nigeria Educational Research Council, as part of its search for an appropriate philosophy of education for Nigeria. The needs of youth, the needs of society, and the substance of the curriculum…

This document describes an experimental, multinational plan for adult secondary education sponsored through the Organization of American States and the Argentine Ministry of Culture and Education. General and specific goals of the program are listed here along with details of the proposed curriculum and areas of study, entrance requirements,…

A rationale for the social studies k-12 program in Baltimore County is presented in this report designed to help teachers review a philosophy of social studies education. Accompanying the rationale are a series of related position papers which elaborate important aspects of social studies education. Also included is a Board of Education Policy…