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World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Morges (Switzerland). – 1980
This report on the activities of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP) includes the recommendations to: (1) join the Consortium for International Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite as a nonvoting member; (2) promote relations between teachers' organizations and UNESCO; (3) continue…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education
North Carolina Univ., Greensboro. School of Education. – 1988
On May 21 and 22, 1987, a conference on educational reform was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, attended by almost 200 North Carolina educational leaders and prominent newspaper editors, along with educational experts from outside the state. The conference consisted of six major presentations and four reaction panels, along with small group…
Descriptors: Blue Ribbon Commissions, Conference Proceedings, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Rey, Micheline – 1983
The 3-day colloquy was held to discuss educational and cultural problems with a view to what European society might be like in the year 2000. Participants divided into three working groups, each focusing on one of three major themes: multicultural Europe in 2000, the role of the school in a changing society, and migrant culture and its educational…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Contact
Hernes, Gudmund – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
In June 2003, the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) organized its annual Policy Forum to discuss the impact of increasingly multi-ethnic and multicultural societies on education in general and the implications for educational planning in particular. The proceedings of this Policy Forum are presented in this volume. Part I,…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Coping, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change
Pines, Marion; And Others – 1995
These proceedings contain papers from a symposium during which 33 practitioners from the fields of education and employment policy formation met to discuss the following topics: the political reality of a Republican majority in Congress and the trend toward increased reliance on block grants as a method of awarding federal funding; the economic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Block Grants, Economic Climate, Educational Change
Nemeth, Balazs, Ed.; Poggeler, Franz, Ed. – 2002
This book, which focuses on how personality, societal values and politics have influenced the mission of adult education, contains 34 papers originally presented at a 2000 conference on the history of adult education. Following a Foreword (Poggeler) and Preface (Nemeth) the papers are: "The Globalization of Adult Education and the One World…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agricultural Education, Andragogy