The proceedings published in the document are the outcomes from a conference to consider the role of professional nursing in relation to health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as one possible way to improve health care delivery. Emphasis is placed on strategies underlying the HMO concept and reviewing and extending understanding of factors which…

This book presents a collection of card games that can be used as learning tools in early childhood classrooms. Each game description includes approximate number of players, step-by-step instructions for playing and suggested variations. Charts with a variety of categories are included to help the teacher find the card games most appropriate to…

The development and implementation of an inservice program to assist teachers in translating general provincial social studies guides, "Experiences in Decision Making," into specific units of instruction are described. The rationale for using a series of video tapes on unit planning and a matched series of print materials was to make…

This study was initiated in order to assess the effectiveness of an innovative social studies curriculum, "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS). The introduction presents an overview of MACOS, the major hypotheses tested, and the design and function of the observation instrument. Chapter 2 reviews the literature on MACOS, emphasizing the…

The definition of geography as the study of man and the realities of his socio-economic milieu is the thesis on which this course in urban geography is based. The functions of the university are observed to be: 1) to ensure economic and cultural continuance; and 2) to advance knowledge and ways of knowing. The first of these functions appears to…

The Appalachian Adult Education Center has two major functions: (1) to serve the undereducated Appalachian through the initiation and continuation of innovative and effective adult education programs; and (2) to affect adult education programs nationally through technical assistance and dissemination of new knowledge in adult education. Projects…

Tired of being excluded from political activities because of lack of day care facilities, women's liberation members of the German Student Federation of Social Democrats (SDS) organized Storefront Day Care Centers early in 1968 in West Berlin. In "Storefront Day Care Centers," an authors' collective recounts the events that marked the growth of…

The book is an account of the development of the credit system now in general use in Ontario high schools. The author describes education in the province from its inception, with particular emphasis on the reorganization begun in the middle 1960s. The text covers the background information, points up some of the trends of the last decade, and…

New goals in physical education are leading instructors to seek new kinds of athletic facilities. School administrators are in the process of rethinking the classical facilities, i.e., the box-shaped gymnasium -- facilities designed without sensitivity to the students' desire to participate in the games they can continue to play after graduation.…

The goal of this book is to provide parents, teachers, administrators, school board members, and the general public with a systematic and comprehensive view of the condition of urban education in the 1970's. Previously, city educators tended to project the failure of the school on to "bad homes" and other conditions. The authors stress that new…

Innovative ways to bring consumer information and education to diverse audiences in inner-city, rural, and suburban communities are described in this publication, one of six developed by the Educational Services Division of Consumers Union for the Consumer Education Materials Project (CEMP). The case studies in this volume describe actual consumer…

Can educators be effective change agents, and if so, how? Let's consider our opportunities from three viewpoints: 1) the social setting of the school; 2) the school systems themselves; and, 3) the teacher. Within the social setting, one of the most important limitations to change is the resistance of many parents. The new curricula and approaches…

The purpose of this report is to provide state-level policy makers with basic data about important alternatives to be considered as a state initiates or expands its early childhood programs. The report points out that several effective approaches could be implemented at substantially less cost than conventional classroom kindergartens and…

Beginning with a review of current student attitudes on the campus toward foreign languages, language teachers, and teaching methods, this article discusses the nature and success of a computer-assisted instructional program in German under development since 1965 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island. The multi-media…

An intensive language program in elementary German at the University of Texas in Arlington is described in this article. The program, enabling undergraduates with no previous experience in German to complete the university's four-semester foreign language requirement in a single semester, is discussed in terms of classroom activities, language…