In his position as retiring chief of the Workers' Education Branch of the International Labour Office (ILO), Paul B. J. Chu is interviewed on worker education, the ILO organization and tole, personal disappointments and satisfactions, future educational developments in which the ILO will be involved, and problems facing workers' education. (AG)

The founding of the Headmistresses Association a hundred years ago marked the emergence of the girls' public schools from the chaotic muddle of private ladies seminaries. Author traced the history of three schools successfully established during the nineteenth century. (Editor/RK)

Argues that (1) increased and improved relations are definitely needed between R&D specialists in universities, research centers, and educational laboratories on the one hand, and the field users in public schools, State agencies, legislatures, and colleges on the other; (2) serious problems and pitfalls have developed in linking procedures…

A portion of a report by a Working Party of the British Computer Society Schools Committee. (HB)

The interdisciplinary studies during the progressive education era are chosen by anthropologist Margaret Mead as a most significant educational development in the last half century. She describes the interaction of persons in the forefront of change, the protocracy, and suggests reasons for the present anonymity of their team efforts. (Editor)

This paper discusses how the planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluating systems (PPBES) can be individually designed to help local school districts meet their financial needs. Each segment of the system is individually described along with actual implementation. The paper concludes that adoption of such systems can enhance educational…

During the past 20 years great efforts have been made to systematize and institutionalize educational research and development. At the same time, changing government priorities, shifting roles of participating institutions, and the politicization of social research have contributed to discontinuity and turmoil. The time has come to consider…

This paper focuses on an approach to instructional development that consists of three basic stages interrelated by feedback. The first stage, system definition and management, is an exhaustive effort to define the problem, study the existing instructional context, and determine staff support and management controls. Stage two, design analysis and…

The author emphasizes the difficulties of advising, the problems the adviser will meet in carrying out his job, and the sensitive relationship between the adviser and the advised. He considers the useful things which the adviser might do, and discusses the many roles an adviser can assume once he has adjusted to the host country and established a…

The Symposium was conducted to study the problems raised in various countries by the evolution of their educational systems in the direction of life-long education. Twelve specialists prepared short papers describing the evolution of educational systems in which they had been influential. Among the considerations reviewed are: the concept of…

This bulletin contains six articles designed to assist teachers in understanding research and development activities so that they may have a more positive impact on educational practices in schools. The first article reviews significant issues in elementary education, focuses on problems that have prevented a successful implementation of past…

This paper describes the activities of Project Covert and Overt Responses to Education Simulation (CORES) designed to provide an identity for students and faculty desiring to engage in simulation-related research and development activities. Activities for investigating the use of simulation are in the directions of administrative decision making,…

The Ideal Design of Effective and Logical Systems (IDEALS) project is a program based on the concept of a five-part methodology for designing educational systems. The objectives of the IDEALS concept are to train educational decision makers to use and train others to use IDEALS, and to produce materials and procedures which will permit others to…