This article discusses an educational practice that has been introduced in Rwanda, which aims to bring back into the formal education system children who are out-of-school or unschooled, even though they are over the legal enrolment age. The authors analyse this intensive programme, designed for children at that age and adapted to their daily…

This article introduces a system that supports the organization of semi-structured, hierarchical educational content for use as supplement for social studies. The system also provides the content's presentation through both an automatically generated procedure and multimedia enhanced navigation tools.

This paper addresses the use of e-materials in learning. Under pressure from the public, which is becoming increasingly conversant with IT, schools and also other non-formal types of learning are changing into e-classrooms and e-learning. Among parents and teachers, too, there is a widespread opinion that e-learning is more motivating and is more…

Author described a technique, called mandrel rolling, by which hollow clay forms are produced in the process of making a ceramic. (RK)

The report relates the experience of contractors with the Manpower Administration of the Department of Labor in providing adult basic education to manpower program clients in research and demonstration projects. It summarizes the findings and progress of several experimental projects from the initial efforts under the Manpower Development and…

Describes some ideas for using a phone directory for teaching alphabetical order, vocabulary, mathematics, geography, critical thinking, and problem solving. (Author/RK)

At the State University of New York at Buffalo researchers have developed a method designed to eliminate the disadvantages, but to retain and improve the advantages of unit teaching. A large Computer-Based Resource Unit coded to students' individual characteristics and objectives facilitates teacher decision-making. (Author/ER)

Describes a teaching program that encourages student creativity by stimulating them to invent'' Rube Goldbergian apparatus from discarded materials in creativity kits supplied by the teacher and supplemented by students. (AL)

This article presents a few specific programs designed to accelerate appropriate social and verbal behavior" in preschool children. Appended are 23 references. (Author/AA)

Describes how a teacher can give demonstrations of additive color mixing with one slide projector. (CK)