The proceedings include addresses by Arthur S. Fleming and Samuel S. Shepard on the educational needs of the disadvantaged black and by E. Paul Torrance on creativity development. Transcriptions are included of workshop papers on teacher training, teacher role in creativity development, teacher resentment toward the adolescent innovator, teacher…

Nineteen reports on new developments in foreign language instruction by teachers of the early 1940's constitute the major part of this book. An introductory chapter discusses educational philosophy and objectives. Reports fall into three areas: (1) foreign languages in a unified language arts curriculum, (2) cultural programs in the foreign…

An overview of the status of Russian and non-Western studies in American schools serves as a handbook for educators and administrators at all levels. Three major essays include: (1) "Graduate Study of Russian," (2) "Russian and Other Non-Western Areas in Undergraduate Education," and (3) "The Study of Russian in Secondary…

English abstracts of fifty-five research projects commissioned by the National Board of Education in Finland between 1971 and 1973 are cataloged in this bulletin. The research reports are available from ten different centers listed in the front of the bulletin. The reports are listed consecutively based on an internal numbering system; abstracts…

As presented in this report the basic purpose of CAIR (Computer-Aided International Relations Teaching) is to introduce university students and policy analysts in government agencies to substantive data analysis in the field of international studies. The student will be exposed to quantitative political science, learn the role and limitations of…

The Committee for General and Technical Education of the Council of Europe has initiated several projects to study, compare and evaluate curriculum materials used in the member nations. The study highlights preoccupations of educators in member countries responsible for the planning of history programs. There is concern for the content of the…

This text, intended to assist the individual teacher in developing the basic ingredients of his own repertoire of effective teaching skills, provides a wide-ranging examination of language instruction beginning with a critical review of both audiolingual and cognitive theory and practice and concludes with an extensive discussion of the four…

To supply the large number of workers qualified for complex jobs, a demand created by the growing needs of a rapidly growing population, Colombia must make provisions for an expanded system of higher education. This can be accomplished by sending students abroad to study at the university level. The large number of students coming to the United…

This teaching manual covers a 1-year introductory program for Grade 10 for various allied health occupations as part of a 3-phase individualized, integrated curriculum entitled "The Health Care System," which includes work study and optional cooperative education. Field trips, field experiences, and exploratory work experience in health…

This interim report on an experimental program to increase student motivation to learn French at the Cultural Centre of Intensive French (CCIF) examines objectives, evaluation procedures, and results of the experiment. Part 1 contains sections on: (1) French achievement in Ottawa, Canada, grade 8 classes, (2) Pimsleur listening comprehension test,…

The 14th publication in a series of subject presentations in the field of administrative management for use by educators and businessmen who teach management courses is presented. These presentations are intended to be particularly useful to Distributive Education in the smaller community where library research facilities are limited and equipment…

This Grade 11 teaching guide contains two curriculums which focus on 10 team physics projects and five thematic units in English. The 10 group physics projects are derived from the application of three laboratory units on the properties of matter, mechanics, and electricity. The outlined English curriculum ranges from such specifically pragmatic…

This document seeks to underline the importance of cultural awareness by providing examples of the folkways, customs, art, traditions, and life styles of different ethnic groups. Included here are teaching techniques designed to motivate understanding of the universality of man and to show how cultural differences enrich everyone's life.…

Many of the immigrants who come to England have no knowledge of English; one of the first tasks which confronts them in the complex process of adjusting to their new environment is to learn something of the language, for economic as well as for social or cultural reasons. The schools must face the problem of integrating immigrant children into the…

Project 5 of the GUME study on foreign language teaching methods continues the work of the previous projects concerning the relative effectiveness of a habit-formation (implicit) method and a cognitive-code learning method, with explanations in either the source or target language. The educational problem of Project 5 is teaching the English…