A discussion of the academic mission and collective bargaining suggests that some form of collective bargaining seems historically inescapable. Yet collective bargaining must be tempered with rational collegiality so that the form of collective bargaining must be one which will least affect the achievement of academic mission. (Author/MJM)

More than 960 titles of bibliographies, texts, research reports, journal articles, theses and dissertations, conference presentations, and proceedings, monographs, programed instruction, instructional packages and multimedia kits appear in this bibliography. The major portion of these entries were either published or became available between 1965…

This booklet presents guidelines and procedures to facilitate the development and writing of performance objectives at different levels of specificity. Chapter 1 contains a brief review of performance objectives. Chapter 2 reviews behavioral variables under the three headings of cognitive variables, affective variables, and psychomotor variables.…

The taxonomy adopted for use with projects operating under the auspices of the Florida Educational Research and Development Program embodies five primary categories: motor skills, verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, and attitudes. Performance objectives are classified in terms of the learning process required for the…

After an introductory section describing the rationale behind the adoption of comprehensive educational objectives for public education, the objectives are set out in two parts. Part One, dealing with goals for student development, includes 1) communication and learning skills, 2) citizenship education, 3) occupational interests, 4) mental and…

These guidelines, which set standards for social studies programs K-12, can be used to update existing programs or may serve as a baseline for further innovation. The first section, "A Basic Rationale for Social Studies Education," identifies the theoretical assumptions basic to the guidelines as knowledge, thinking, valuing, social participation,…

The author makes several prefatory observations on the hodgepodge nature of current social studies programs, and the lack of a functional (as opposed to descriptive) statement of the means and ends of social studies education. The following functional definition, developed by the staff of the Marin Social Studies Project, is offered: The social…

Comparatively little is known about the sheer scale and diversity of the task facing adult educators in developing countries. This book, written by a number of distinguished adult education specialists with first-hand experience of the countries they describe, is designed to help fill the gap in knowledge. Detailed studies of the structure,…

This bibliography has three main sections: 1) "Books and Papers," containing 198 citations; 2) "Articles and Excerpts From Books," containing 148 citations; and 3) "Theses," with two citations. Sources consulted in preparing the bibliography include the British Education Index, the Canadian Education Index (CCRE), the…

Six basic rationales for teaching art must be fused together if we are to reach the objective of helping non-artists achieve sensitivity in reacting to and acting upon their environment. The historical rationale reasons that if we can see the importance of art in previous cultures, we must transmit that importance in our culture by educating…

The goals for public schools in Texas pertain to student development, organizational efficiency, and accountability. The goals for student development involve intellectual discipline, economic and occupational competence, citizenship and political understanding and competence, physical and environmental health and ecological balance, appreciation…

The author gives his definition of accountability as "the process of expecting each member of an organization to answer to someone" and says that professional educators should be held answerable for children's learning which is the major goal of public education. The roles of all the people involved in the system are facilitating roles to that end…

This document is a compilation of 163 English-language abstracts concerning various aspects of education in Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, UAR, U.S., USSR, and Yugoslavia. The abstracts are informative in nature and are approximately 1,500 words…

This search of the ERIC system, Dissertation Abstracts, and the journal literature, yields 50 document abstracts which cover the mutual relationships for the implementation of long-range educational objectives between state departments of education and school systems, four-year institutions, and colleges and secondary schools. (CJ)

These appendixes contain (1) correspondence related to selection of exemplary cooperative education programs for study in developing guidelines for planning, managing, and evaluating such programs and (2) materials collected from the programs identified relating to project management, objectives, program evaluation, and followup. (Volume I, the…