Seven basic forms of part-time employment that are particularly well-adapted to the needs and abilities of college-educated women who wish to take on less than a full-time career responsibility, have been identified and found capable of yielding greater productivity, reduced absenteeism, and lower turnover and training costs: (1) Job Pairing, in…

Presented are duplications of the responses given by Avocational Counseling for the Elderly (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) as part of a project to collect, share, and compile information about, and techniques in the operation of 18 community action models for recreation services to the disabled. Model programs are categorized as consumer, client…

Utilizing data from a 1972 sociological survey of rural inhabitants working in the public economy of the province of Novosibirsk, this study examined leisure as an element of the residents' life style. Rural residents with common leisure behaviors were identified through the classification of the behavior's function and quality. Leisure functions…

A program of career education for exceptional students in the leisure occupations is described. It is explained that the book is designed for regular and special class teachers. Chapters one and two present information on career education principles and implementation. Chapters three through five deal with practical teaching concerns. Behavioral…

Provided is a curriculum guide based on the lifelong learning needs of moderately retarded persons. Behavioral objectives are identified at each of six levels of functioning which approximate the mental age levels of 1.5, 3.0, 5.0, 7.0, 8.0, and 8.0 + (adult) years. Sections cover the following persisting life problem areas: (1) developing the…

The major problems of inservice teacher education in agriculture center on the systems commonly used and arise when inadequate consideration is given to proper attitudes, resources, and time (ART). Suggestions are made to help the inservice educator develop an effective program around these elements. (Author/AJ)

A national survey reports that, in contrast to students of 1968-1976, present French lyceens are more conformist and less interested in politics. Responses about school, education and career plans, leisure activities, reading habits, and drug use are also reported. (SJL)

Vocational education should now enter the area of job creation. The author discusses urban renewal, economic decentralization, the "bootstrap" school, and part-time job creation. (MF)

An alternative to linear lifetime patterns is a more "cyclic life plan" in which time spent on education, retirement, and non-work time would be redistributed to the center of life in the form of extended periods of leisure or education. Demographic trends, developmental stages of adulthood, method of education, social opportunity and changes,…

Factors influencing academic achievement in a school or school system were examined, using data from studies of mathematics and science achievement of high school and college bound students in Australia. Two curricular factors, opportunity to learn and time spent in learning, were related to achievement. (GDC)

Data concerning time with patients and time with attending physicians tended to be inversely associated with patient volume in a time-study of family practice residents. The results are used to illustrate and develop some issues involved in the design of residency experiences for primary care physicians. (Editor/LBH)

Deferments have been given in Australia to allow a student who has been granted admission to take a year off before enrolling in a course of study. Reasons for approved deferments are cited along with the distribution of students by department. (LBH)

Higher education administrators must face the alternatives of promptly developing responsible policies for permanent part-time faculty members, or accepting policy mandated by legislatures and courts. Suggestions for designing new personnel policies are offered. (Editor/LBH)

Summarizes research on recent developments in the trend toward full-day kindergarten programs. Topics covered include (1) full-day and half-day differential gains, (2) the nature of gains produced by full-day kindergarten, (3) the lack of causal relations among program components, (4) enduring effects, (5) differential student effects, and (6)…