The issue of "Directions" contains nine articles which focus on activities and approaches to career education for hearing impaired students. Articles include the following titles and authors: "Attitudes as Factors in Vocational Rehabilitation of Young Deaf Adults" (R. Sanderson); "Career Education--Getting Ready for Today's Job Market" (R.…

This document provides details about the Teacher Education and Mathematics (TEAM) Project, which developed a model program and instructional materials that can be used to increase confidence and skills of students in undergraduate teacher education courses. TEAM materials and curriculum were specifically designed to: (1) reduce mathematics anxiety…

The two sections of this monograph deal with child abuse and spouse abuse as separate issues. The authors discuss the factors that have contributed to these problems, including historical antecedents, attitudes, and practices; and identify the characteristics of abusive caretakers of children, violent spouses/partners, and abused or neglected…

Three major components of programs offered to public school students and teachers by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia are described. One of the organization's major objectives is to prepare students for responsible roles as citizens and community leaders. The first component features a certified social studies teacher as liaison with the…

This report describes a new automated process that pioneers full-scale operational use of subject switching by the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Facility. The subject switching process routinely translates machine-readable subject terms from one controlled vocabulary into the…

This descriptive report focuses on Project SEEK (Sex Equity Education Know-How), a 1-year program undertaken at Los Angeles Pierce College to address sex inequities and stereotyping in vocational education. The first section identifies the project's goals; i.e., to increase the number of students, who are non-traditional for their sex, in six…

Papers on children's services presented at the 1984 IFLA general conference include: (1) "Children's Literature in Kenya: Staggering Problems, Limited Successes, and Some Signs of Hope" (Ellen Kitonga, Kenya), which identifies some basic problems with respect to children's literature in Africa and suggests possible courses of action; (2)…

Because good self-concept among children is closely linked to successful learning, an Australian school developed a school-wide program to raise children's self-esteem. The project focused on working with autistic children and a relay cycle and run between Perth and Adelaide. This paper details the process of developing and carrying out the…

Papers on parliamentary libraries which were presented at the 1985 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Cooperation among Parliamentary Libraries--Example: Federal Republic of Germany" (Wolfgang Dietz, West Germany); (2) "Cooperative Development in Action: Towards an Australian Parliamentary Information…

Papers on science and technology libraries which were presented at the 1985 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "UAP (Universal Availability of Publications) and User Training for Categories of Grey Literature" (Dieter Schmidmaier, Mining Academy Freiberg, East Germany); (2) "Resource…

This manual presents a sequence of assignments to encourage students to commit themselves to a writing project in which the content is derived from their own purposeful investigations of subjects within their local community. Introductory information explains how the instructional sequence works, indicating that: (1) students are asked to…

This report, representing the first half of a comprehensive study, describes the personnel of the Social Services Component in Title IV-A Day Care in Philadelphia and discusses some of the functions and services provided by these personnel. Data were based on responses from 129 service workers in 38 agencies. Respondents reported information on 21…

This report on the education professions covers the current federally funded teacher centers, the antecedent Federal role in the development of teacher centers, and teacher center development in several other countries. It is divided into four major categories. Part one contains two articles--one on the history of the Federal role in the…

This guide for using the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM), which consists of 131 units developed under the rubric of the "school-based" model at the Ohio State University Center for Vocational Education, is intended to provide a brief background to the curriculum and its elements so that the user can decide how existing…

The speeches, papers, and workshops descriptions presented at the second annual National Conference for Child Care Workers are presented. Several issues relating to child care supervision, child care work, and child development are considered along with the management of group living environments and various aspects of supervision. Job…