The International Labour Organization assigned a staff member to an Asian country to assist the trade unions in strengthening their workers' education programs. One important aspect of his assignment consisted of establishing and testing a viable course program by constructing a set of syllabi for basic, specialized, and advanced courses that…

Individuals who question the value of studying history as being irrelevant to the present are reminded that all institutions, groups, and human practices exist in the time dimension and that the study of history serves to stimulate and deepen one's sense of the dimension of time. (Author/AV)

Discussed is the need for examining the reasons for teaching optics to help to determine how optics should be taught. (SL)

Identification of objectives, review of texts, assessment of outcomes, and consideration of students are suggested procedures for effective textbook adoption. (Author)

The course, "Roles and Relations in Legal Practice," is an attempt to commence students' professional training in a manner that does not depend on external clients, in which the volume and content of work can be effectively regulated, and which can be introduced into the earliest phases of the curriculum to prepare students for clinic work. (LBH)

The development of moral reasoning as a key course objective in undergraduate communication ethics classes can be accomplished by the critical and deliberate introduction of professional codes of ethics and the internalization of values found in those codes. Notably, "fostering moral reasoning skills" and "surveying current ethical…

Discusses the offering of a residential project course for students in 1972 and a similar course for teachers in 1973 at the Grammar School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Included are descriptions of participants reactions and course objectives and topics. (CC)

The purpose of this article is to provide a model for the development and organization of high school world history classes for slow learners. (Author)

Author discussed the inclusion of a practicum in a social science course. (Author/RK)

Expanded version of a talk given at the "Seminar for the Teaching of English at PKS-Sung Level," held at the Teacher Training Department of the Ministry of Education in Bangkok, Thailand, June 13-19, 1973. (HW)

Stress is placed here on developing concepts or big ideas and behavioral objectives or measurable objectives as a means of structuring or ordering bodies of knowledge relative to venereal education. (Author)

The purpose of the article is to underscore strong points for the junior college instructor to use in coming to terms with local or regional four-year schools. (Author)

An experiment in student performance evaluation, for art students at New Providence High School (New Jersey), is helping reinforce the objective that the elevation of the visual sensitivities of the school student-faculty population lies within the student designers' acceptance to give problems an aesthetic value and solution. (Author)