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Download full textGuerra, Alfonso Rangel, Ed. – Revista Interamericana de Educacion de Adultos, 2002
This collection of Spanish-language articles includes the following: "La Importancia del Contexto en la Alfabetizacion" (Judith Kalman); "Profesorodo y Formadores: La Formacion para la Transformation de los Distritos y las Comunidades" (Concepcion Dominquez Garrido and Antonio Medina Rivilla); "Valoracion de los Resultados…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Rural Areas
von Zur-Muehlen, Max – Canadian Statistical Review, 1978
Information on Canadian social and economic trends is presented in this statistical review. Advance information on national income and expenditure accounts for the first quarter of 1978 is provided. Characteristics of full-time university teachers from 1956-57 to 1977-78 are detailed in tables that recount such developments as the nearly six-fold…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedvan de Kaa, Dirk J. – Population Bulletin, 1987
By 1985, fertility rates in Europe were below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman in all but Albania, Ireland, Malta, Poland, and Turkey, following a steady decline from a 1965 postwar peak well above 2.5 in Northern, Western, and Southern Europe and an erratic trend from a lower level in Eastern Europe. Natural decrease (fewer births…
Descriptors: Abortions, Birth Rate, Contraception, Demography
Bernard van Leer Foundation Newsletter, 1995
This theme issue of the Bernard van Leer Foundation newsletter focuses on the problem of teenage pregnancy and teenage parenthood in developing and developed nations, and examines the problems that teenage mothers face in different societies. It explores societal norms and values related to teenage parenting; the effects of teenage parents on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Theilheimer, Ish, Ed. – Transition, 1993
This theme issue of the Canadian newsletter "Transitions" in both English and French explores the question of the future of families in a period of broken marriages, difficult times, and an obsession with individual success and materialism. "Families of the Future: New Ways to Do the Same Old Things," summarizes the findings of…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Community Programs, Demography, Dual Career Family
Temps d'Educacio, 1995
Each of the two issues of this Catalan-language journal offers book reviews and articles on general topics in education. Issues contain Spanish-, English- and French-language abstracts of included articles with keyword references. Number 13 (1st. semester 1995) examines environmental and multicultural education; number 14 (2nd. semester 1995)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Anthropology, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Teaching Topics, 1983
Highlights from a survey of educational practices of personal finance teachers and resource materials for emerging topics are provided. Of the 6,100 secondary teachers in the United States and Canada who received questionnaires, 1,400 responded. With over 30 states having personal finance or consumer economics guidelines, personal finance courses…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Consumer Economics, Course Content, Educational Needs
Theilheimer, Ish, Ed.; Eisner, Kathy, Ed. – Transition, 1995
This issue of the newsletter "Transition" focuses on young families and the problems they face. The newsletter contains book reviews, descriptions of upcoming events, and articles covering various aspects of young families. Articles are: (1) "Taking the Plunge" (Deidre Yukich), focusing on one woman's family planning decisions;…
Descriptors: Cohabitation, Early Childhood Education, Family Life, Family Relationship
Casanave, Christine Pearson, Ed.; Simons, J. David, Ed. – 1995
This collection of articles on use of films in second language instruction, particularly for teaching English as a second language (ESL) in Japanese colleges and universities, includes: "Whole Movies and Engaged Response in the Japanese University ESL Classroom" (David P. Shea); "Films in English Class: Going Beyond a Content…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Copyrights, Critical Thinking
Liddicoat, Anthony J., Ed.; Crozet, Chantal, Ed. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Essays and research reports on the relationship between teaching second languages and teaching culture include: "Teaching Culture as an Integrated Part of Language Teaching: An Introduction" (Chantal Crozet, Anthony J. Liddicoat); "Primary Socialization and Cultural Factors in Second Language Learning: Wending Our Way through Semi-Charted…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics
Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics
