The bibliography identifies 179 books, journal articles, and papers published from 1969 through July 1979 concerning educational change, evaluation, and ideology. Arranged alphabetically by author, topics include social change, social science research and national policy, social policy research, politics and educational reform, and ideology and…

Experience-based learning has been evident in the Chinese educational system since the 1930s. Following the Long March in 1934-35, the Chinese Communists introduced a nonformal, experience-based educational system in North Shensi province. This system included drama groups in the countryside to educate peasants, classes in factories, and…

This training and development manual discusses guiding principles and elements of evaluation: (1) philosophy and goals; (2) administrative planning, organization, staffing, direction, and control; (3) plant and facilities; (4) staff and faculty composition, qualifications, screening and selection, promotion, duties, compensation, and incentives;…

Guidelines for programs related to the education of migrant children in Texas are outlined. Topics discussed include philosophy of migrant education, the instructional program, preschool guidelines, guidelines for the Texas Project for the Education of Migrant Children, preparations and planning for preschool teachers and aides, the enrichment…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this module focuses on the factors which have led to the growth of the career education concepts. The module is one of six for administrators and four for counselors…

One or more graduate departments from ten schools participated in studies of six different disciplines: chemistry, English, history, philosophy, physics, and psychology. Subjects were students who first enrolled for graduate study in these departments between 1957 and 1960. Predictor data obtained for the students included scores on the Graduate…

Effective buymanship and effective financial management are the cornerstone of an elementary and secondary school consumer education program. The curriculum must meet some basic and essential criteria in order to prepare the student for learning about budgeting, a concept which encompasses buymanship and financial management. Through knowledge,…

The Mott Foundation has over the years devoted most of its considerable resources to joining together the school and community in the solution of educational problems facing society, but it is only within the last 20 years that it has enlisted the support of colleges and universities. The Mott Institute at Michigan State University focused its…

This essay considers the need for economic retrenchment, environmental conservation, and the implications of these positions for teaching. Facing an environmental crisis, overpopulation, and an ever-increasing reduction of natural resources, education in the future must concentrate on teaching about the futility of growth, planned and unplanned.…

This paper defines the "invisible pedagogy," a teaching model used in British infant schools, and discusses its relationship to middle class culture, working class culture, and "visible" pedagogy. The invisible pedagogy is characterized by several features including (1) implicit rather than explicit control over the child by…

Among the issues discussed are the following: whether education is the great equalizer or the great slave, equality of opportunity and equality of results, conservative, liberal, and redemptive conceptions of educational equality, the heredity-environment issue, the causes of educational inequality, incompatibilities and dilemmas of equalization,…

Eastern Montana College is a comprehensive state college. The faculty handbook discusses: (1) organization and administration of the college; (2) responsibilities of administrative officers and faculty advisors; (3) committee composition and function; (4) faculty organization and regulations; (5) academic regulations; (6) campus policies; and (7)…

Setting goals is not a new thing for schools. Most schools have devoted considerable effort to thinking through the outcomes they hope students will achieve as a result of their school experience. This training unit on setting goals is designed to sharpen school people's skills in deriving and refining instructional goals to reflect the current…

This report, prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, provides philosophical and psychological background and teaching guidelines for the kindergarten classroom. The guide is divided into six sections which encompass different aspects of kindergarten education: (1) the philosophy and psychology of kindergarten education, and the roles…

This book tells how a secondary school can be improved without resorting to radical approaches. It is based on the author's experiences and on the programs at Concord High School, Wilmington, Delaware. Emphasis is placed on organizing a secondary school that can initiate changes from the "inside," by the educators on the firing line. Containing…