Article stresses the vital role of adult education as a means of ensuring active participation of adult learners in various duties and jobs that are called for during an emergency. (Author/ML)

This monograph examines the career education concept. Four interrelated premises discussed include specialism, sequentialism, fundamentalism, and credentialism. Each premise is presented in light of its functional and dysfunctional role in career education. Suggestions are included which would a) enable career education to enhance the principle of…

This report of the 3 March 1977 meeting of the National Agricultural Education Advisory Council includes briefs of the annual report of accomplishments, the proposed program of work for the current year, recommendations for the agricultural education profession, and a list of questions for the profession regarding educational needs and priorities.…

Reviews the history of western education in African countries and asserts that Africa has unique problems that require special analysis and treatment in order to facilitate her gaining confidence to train her own administrators. (Author/WM)

Article gives details of the five priorities of the National Institute of Education. (GB)

This document provides information for the use of leaders concerned with the development of proposals and recommendations for national policy consideration. The first four sections discuss: the need for continuous education in the later years as a means to improve the circumstances of the older people; long-range goals of educational programs for…

A description is given of the typical Cuban secondary school which is developing in response to a need for technical and vocational instruction. Objectives of the schools are listed in view of Cuba's increasingly mechanized industrial and agricultural production. (AV)

Discussion of adult education in India, its orientation, objectives, programs, agencies, guidelines for operation, problems and misconceptions. (ABM)

The education programme for 1973 and 1974 proceeds from general aims and from a need to contribute to a solution of problems raised by education today but attention is concentrated on the right to education and the regeneration of education. (JB)

Revision of paper presented at California Teacher's Association Staff Conference on Problem Solving (Asilomar, California, January 30, 1968).

This study was undertaken to show why area vocational education programs should be developed at both secondary and postsecondary levels and to develop a model for organizational and curricular patterns for vocational education at the local level. Empirical data were analyzed to show the need for vocational education in Michigan, and a…

A report on the educational needs of South Dakota is presented. These needs were determined through a survey which pulled together the findings of several studies conducted to determine the present status of education in the State and through submitting the findings of these studies to the State's citizens to determine how important they were. A…

Since two-thirds of all adult learners plan their own education programs without professional help, outreach to these learners in their own community settings is the next important movement in education. Outreach also applies to those many adults who need help simply in coping with everyday life in this complex society. A recent study found that…

The document contains the verbatim reports of nine hearings held on H. R. 14454, the bill to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Vocational Education Act of 1963 until Fiscal Year 1980, including the full texts of all prepared statements and exhibits of various kinds. The statements were made by a wide variety of people, including…