The project, "Integrating Equal Career Opportunity Concepts for High School Men and Women through Career Guidance, Counseling and Placement in Classroom Activities," consisted of conducting workshops for secondary teachers in the school districts of Exeter, Keene, Manchester, and Nashua (New Hampshire) in an attempt to raise their…

The role of physical education and recreation in early intervention for handicapped children is the focus of the fourth of seven related documents. Introductory information on the history and rationale for early intervention and on developmental characteristics of the normal and handicapped child is followed by bibliographies on the following…

A case study describing the evolution of teacher preparation programs in the Oregon College of Education (OCE), Monmouth, and their influence on other teacher education programs in the state from l974 to the present is presented. The study describes activities in six areas: (l) the continued evaluation of the Elementary Program at OCE, including…

A program designed to improve learning through improved teaching competencies, the IOTAH program (Instrument for the Observation of Teaching Activities in Higher Education) is reported. This program for instructional improvement involves three stages: introduction, training, and implementation. The introductory stage can be accomplished through…

The Allen County Team for Individualized Occupational Needs (ACTION) Project is a cooperative career education project developed by three rural Kansas school districts and their communities. The participating high schools have enrollments of 500, 400, and 200 students. The ACTION Project is designed to provide quality career education through a…

Over 170 law-related education programs for elementary and secondary students are described. These programs involve more than one teacher and focus on the law, legal system, and legal process. Program content generally covers the Constitution; Bill of Rights; legal processes; and consumer, criminal, and juvenile law. Activities often include…

A Study Group, convened by the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development at Bangkok, classified national policy statements, development plans, and innovative programmes in three categories: changes in the concept of rural development; changes in the concepts of education "for" and "in" rural development, and…

Most of the document is a teacher's guide for an eighth grade course in career education, in use at Cal Young Junior High School, Eugene, Oregon, emphasizing small group work. The five main parts of the course are: (1) career corner, a multimedia career information center for student job studies, (2) life career, a life planning simulation game,…

Intended for teachers of severely and profoundly retarded children, the book presents principles of management and education used at a special day care center in Warsaw, Poland. It is stressed that the educational goal is to give the retarded child a chance to develop personally and to play a positive social role in the home and family structure…

This bibliography lists materials, programs and resources which appear to be relevant to the needs of parents and those working with parents. The bibliography is a project of the Parenting Materials Information Center (PMIC) being developed by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. PMIC will collect, analyze and disseminate information…

The report presents a record of the second year activities of Project MODEL (Mobile Occupational Development Education Laboratories). Included are a brief description of the project and an examination of the various operation activities; components, the development of nine objectives, their status, and their disposition; financial verification;…

This abstract bibliography concentrates on aspects of the physical and intellectual development of the Australian Aboriginal child, although educational, sociological and other issues are also raised in a number of the entries included. Most of the 57 entries are journal articles, although some are book chapters, reports and conference papers. A…

The New Rural Society Concept, which urges establishment of a more balanced rural-urban population distribution in response to the interdependent rural-urban energy crisis, is explicated in this report on a model project initiated in 1972 in 10 northeastern Connecticut townships. The following are cited as major project objectives: (1) to obtain…

This bibliography contains references to books, articles, project reports, pamphlets, and conference papers (a few written in French) chosen for their easy availability and divided into sections on various topics pertinent to day care services: (1) organization and administration, funding and costing, need for day care; (2) parent involvement,…

The nine essays in this monograph represent an expanded outgrowth of "The American Indian in Urban Society" (1971) and an attempt at improvement. The essays are titled as follows: (1) "Federal Policy and the Urban Indian" (Federal policy affecting the urbanization of Indian populations); (2) "Urbanization in a Reservation…