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Download full textHorton, Donald; And Others – 1967
An exploratory, qualitative, and comparative research study concerning sociologically relevant aspects of project Head Start (HS) was conducted in two New York City HS centers. The study investigated (l) the internal organizational development of the HS centers, (2) teacher-parent relations in HS, (3) HS in relation to the family life of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Field Studies, Interpersonal Relationship, Interprofessional Relationship
Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1975
This booklet describes 38 projects funded during Fiscal Year 1974 by the Intradepartmental Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. Projects include community prevention programs, child protection, family resource centers, mother-infant attachment, the demography of child abuse, and the effect of birth order on the mother-child relationship. Project…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Case Studies, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy
Day Care and Child Development Council of America, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
This booklet provides basic information for those involved in creating new day care programs or revising existing ones in their own communities. Chapters 1 and 2 offer discussions on basic approaches to day care as well as general aspects of programming. In Chapter 3 three types of staff training are investigated. A black studies inservice…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Johnston, Joyce D.; Palmatier, Robert A. – 1975
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Johnston, Joyce; Palmatier, Robert A. – 1976
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Drake, James Bob; Morgan, Alice S. – 1975
The project, conducted in five Alabama counties, was concerned with identifying and recruiting nonreading young adults and providing home-based instruction to those who could not attend adult basic education classes. Paraprofessionals and volunteers were recruited and trained in order to meet this objective. As of May 31, 1975, over 40 community…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults
Palmatier, Robert A.; And Others – 1976
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Provence, Sally – 1976
Goals for future child care services are discussed in this address. It is stressed that social service agencies should consider the family as a unit in providing flexible child care services. Other goals include: (1) tailoring child care programs to parent development as well as child development, (2) insuring that child care workers are motivated…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Hensley, Gene, Ed.; Patterson , Virginia W., Ed. – 1970
Selected papers from the conference on changing patterns of professional preparation and services in special education held in San Diego, California (March 9-11, 1970), contain topics of teacher assessment of students, by Wayne Lance, and educational services based on learning characteristics of pupils, by William Hall. Also included are Joseph…
Descriptors: Administration, Ancillary Services, Conference Reports, Educational Trends
Royce, Marion – 1969
This report describes a number of innovative continuing education programs for Canadian women under the auspices of universities, local educational authorities, and other organizations. It covers daytime (largely part time) classes at Mount St. Vincent University, the Thomas More Institute, and the Universities of British Columbia, Calgary,…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Discussion Groups, Educational Television, English (Second Language)
Dickstein, Howard W. – 1972
This survey of the occupational status, future needs, and educational interests of volunteers and professional personnel serving senior citizens who live in communities or institutional settings in Hartford, Connecticut, is based on the assumption that new careers will open up in fields related to gerontology to meet the needs of a rapidly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Opportunities, Educational Needs, Geriatrics
Kohl, Herbert – 1973
Reading skill can be acquired in a natural and informal manner and in a variety of settings ranging from the school to the streets. Anyone who wants to learn to read or to develop his reading ability can do so if the following conditions are satisfied: (1) A person who knows how to read and wants to share his knowledge is willing to help. (2)…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Philosophy, Language Experience Approach, Nontraditional Education
Slager, William R.; And Others – 1966
These materials are part of a one-week experimental program to bring together the language and the TESL components of the Peace Corps Training Program for Ethiopia. The program is based on the relationship between language teaching and language learning, that is, between the methods classes in the teaching of English as a second language, and the…
Descriptors: Amharic, Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedWong, Charles; And Others – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1985
This section of the journal presents state-of-the-art surveys of training in different countries in China, Africa, the Arab States, Eastern Europe, West Europe, Nordic Region, Caribbean, North America, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. (CT)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Quality
US Senate, 2004
The focus of this hearing was on funding for abstinence education. Following an opening statement by Subcommittee Chairman Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, witness testimonies were heard from: Dr. Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.; Rev. Kenneth Page,…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Coordinators, Pregnancy, Human Services
