In this article, we describe our efforts as project coordinators to negotiate directions and meanings at the initial stages of a childcare curriculum development project for children from birth to age five in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. Understanding curriculum as a complex relational dynamic that is shaped by the multiple social and…

Believing that the support of the principal is essential to implementing a successful music program, this writer describes the ways he feels music instruction can be made available for the "other 80 percent." (Editor)

This article will focus on the need to develop a system for the coordination and dissemination of research reporting activities starting with a brief overview of research in art education, past and present and with a discussion of its limitations. (Author)

Adult educators view remedial education, higher education, and lifelong learning as the purposes for extending adult education programs through satellite communication. Thanks to communication satellites, the parameters of the adult education learning will be broad enough to include all adults regardless of age, sex, marital status, minority group…

This report is based upon an analysis of the evaluation procedures outlined in 21 funded Title III proposals. The proposals were analyzed from a number of points of view. (1) Using the Stufflabeam model as a guide, they were examined to determine what, if any, provisions had been made for each of the four classes of evaluation: context, input,…

As an extension of ideas suggested in an earlier paper which proposed a project control system for Indiana University's Audio-Visual Center (see EM 010 306), this paper examines the establishment of project legitimacy and priority within the system and reviews the need to stimulate specific research proposals as well as generating a matrix of…

Phase I of "A Task Analysis of Library Jobs in the State of Illinois" (ED 040723), the SERD Report (Social, Educational Research and Development, Inc.) is viewed as a working document. The need in Phase II is to relate the data collected to real library situations. One objective of Phase II is to obtain opinions from professional…

Activities to date under the federal Teacher Centers Law (Public Law 94-482) are described. Opportunities for the submission of new proposals, or rewriting and resubmission of rejected proposals are described. National Education Association interest in these activities is made clear. (MJB)

"Retirement does not change a person, it only makes a person more of what he or she has been," says the author. A book editor who has worked with the elderly and taught preretirement courses, she provides sound advice for the teacher about to retire. (Editor/RK)

Few would argue with the desirability of occupational training; but if we expect the programs to be successful over the next few years, we must modify our basic approach. As much emphasis must be placed upon attitudinal skills in the training programs as is placed upon manual and mental skill acquisition. Discusses seven outcomes that should be…

Summarizes major presentations of the 17th World Congress of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP). The opening address asks the question "Should an individual's original cultural identity be continued and reinforced when that person becomes a permanent resident in an alien culture?" Workshops, displays, projects, and…

Suggests that adult educators in search of external program funding turn to state-based humanities programs, which are natural allies of adult education, having many of the same goals and sharing many common educational principles. (JT)

A proposal to increase accountability in education through the use of performance contracting. (RA)