In November of 1978 the Canadian Education Association held its first national French-language seminar for teachers, principals, school board administrators, and representatives of departments/ministries of education. The theme of the seminar was "Supervision of Teaching: Should it be Viewed as a Relationship of Help or Control?" This…

Four keynote papers, presented at an international conference on sign language research, discussed general linguistic issues of sign language, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. (CB)

Reviews the topics of the symposium covered in this issue of the "British Journal of Guidance and Counselling." The papers, focusing primarily on the United Kingdom, comment on the past, present, and future of counseling, guidance, and psychotherapy. Specific topics include the rise of psychoanalysis, the development of the counseling…

This report contains the proceedings of the International Literacy Day Conference held in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1978. It contains a program of conference events, an executive summary, a message from the vice president of the United States, and the text of the proceedings. The proceedings include introductory remarks by Edwin Newman; a…

This journal presents eight papers from a October 1983 conference on the current state of European teacher education in Kolymbari, Greece. Teacher education in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Italy are discussed. (MT)

Teachers, teacher trainers, pedagogical counselors, and representatives of teachers associations and ministries from ten Council of Europe member states as well as from two non-member states met to evaluate innovation in the schooling of gypsy and traveller children. Considered were the conditions under which innovation emerges, the forms that it…

A small group of top-level experts on information and productivity and other key decision makers met to discuss information and productivity and its implications for education. The meeting was the first in a proposed series of bilateral meetings between individuals in the library/information field in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom…

This report of the regional meeting of experts in Asia and Oceania provides review of presentations from different countries, a review of research and pedagogical considerations, and recommendations concerning new approaches for early childhood education. Particular reference is made to disadvantaged rural and urban populations. Also included are…

A summary of papers delivered at a 1981 conference on gifted children and their contemporaries addresses such issues as trends and problems in British gifted education, parental expectations of the system, areas of policy considerations, problems in modern language instruction and science education, and the role of fathers. (CL)

This paper contains the text of four papers presented at a seminar held to develop issues for future research in the science and mathematics curriculum area. In "The Nature of Pupils' Naive Conceptions in Science," Rosalind Driver discusses spontaneous reasoning about force and motion, spontaneous reasoning in other domains of…

This report summarizes the proceedings of the international seminar for guidance counselors which focused on: (1) the social function of the system of guidance and counseling services, and the task of the school counselor in this system; and (2) the aims, tasks, content, and organization possibilities of educational, research, and information…

These 15 papers address the creation of second-chance routes for adults; patterns of study finance; experiences and life-studies of adult learners; and an evaluation of the reform of higher education in Sweden. Presentations include "To Put New Wine into Old Bottles: The Swedish Reform of Higher Education as a Modernized Form of…

This document reports on a workshop concerned with the inservice training of educational personnel. The workshop's main objectives included: (1) review of policies and plans for the development of primary education; (2) identification of alternative objectives, issues, and growth points; (3) development of training strategies for the…

This report discusses the third major stage of the Queensland Board of Teacher Education's investigation into the nature of school experiences in preservice teacher education programs in Queensland, Australia. An account is presented of the proceedings of a statewide conference held in September 1984 to discuss results of the survey research…

The document contains papers from a symposium to confront the concepts of further education of teachers, educators, and other specialists in the field of care for the physically, sensorily, and mentally handicapped and socially maladjusted youth in individual European countries with different educational systems and different social systems.…