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Hennes, James, Ed.; Larsh, Jane, Ed. – 1990
Strategic options for school restructuring are examined in this guidebook for Colorado educators and citizens networking in the Colorado Strategic Options Initiative. The authors are members of a group of state educators participating in the Strategic Options Network, a collaborative organization working to share research and results of their…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation
Biscoe, Eleanor Lynch, Ed. – 1980
Summaries and edited transcriptions document the major content areas addressed by the institute, which exposed state teams to innovative continuing education concepts and methodologies to apply in state planning for continuing education through a week-long workshop and postworkshop, follow-up meetings and communication, consultation, document…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation, Library Personnel, Library Planning
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1981
This report contains summaries and syntheses of materials from the Technical Working Group Meeting for curriculum planning and instructional materials design for vocational and technical education. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the objectives and procedures of the meeting and lists the participants. In chapter 2 are presented summaries of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities, Educational Innovation, Electricity
Leavitt, Howard B., Ed.; Klassen, Frank H., Ed. – 1979
The first section of this book deals with the concept of education as a developmental tool for the individual and for social institutions. Educational development is perceived as directed towards the problems of poverty and deprivation, social equality, quality of the environment, and participation in political processes. Section Two deals with…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cultural Influences, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1984
Research from 14 Asian and Pacific countries suggests that the outcome of educational research is not sufficiently utilized by educators in those countries. Several recommendations for the development of information exchange were discussed at an educational research seminar. It was recommended that research projects be worthy and be…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Comparative Education, Delivery Systems, Diffusion (Communication)
Helm, Judy Harris, Ed. – 1998
Projects are in-depth studies of a topic undertaken by a class, a group, or an individual child. Projects are intended to strengthen children's dispositions to be interested, absorbed, and involved in in-depth observation, investigation, and representation of worthwhile phenomena in their own environments. This Catalog on the Project Approach, the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Creative Development, Discovery Learning
Cromer, Janis – 1984
This report offers the conclusions of a 1983 EPCOT symposium on education and the Information Age involving distinguished national experts and 46 secondary school principals from across the country. Discussed in the first section on "The Demands of an Information Age" are a number of transitions, including current shifts from an industrial to an…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs
Knibbeler, Wil, Ed.; Bernards, Marij, Ed. – 1984
Topics covered in papers presented at an international meeting on foreign language methodology include the following: how to sort out the new approaches to foreign language teaching methods; unconscious assimilation in foreign language learning; the lack of concrete answers arrived at during this meeting; methodological considerations in applying…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction