Through an overview of three teacher centers, this report attempts to characterize what a teacher center is, does, and how it can be organized. The centers included in this report are the following: (a) the Bay Area Learning Center (BALC), California; (b) the Rhode Island Teacher Center (RITC); and (c) the Texas Center for the Improvement of…

The emerging field of comparative physical education and sport, or international physical education and sport, rests squarely on the shoulders of comparative education; an understanding and appreciation of the latter is necessary for an understanding of the former. Comparative education is an older field of study and has gone through certain…

Collective bargaining is a technology and not a philosophy or set of moral values. There seems to be an almost irresistible urge among authors of educational bargaining statutes to adopt the basic tenets of private-sector labor law. However, employment and collective bargaining are different in the public sector than in the private sector, and one…

Recent advances in the field of descriptive linguistics have produced not only an entirely new grammatical terminology, but also new definitions of traditional grammatical concepts. The result has been a somewhat bewildering profusion and confusion of overlapping terms. The present glossary is the result of several years of research and of…

Before a new autonomous profession can be established a national definition of marriage counseling must be recognized. This report is an attempt to define "marriage counseling" by presenting a brief history and by describing four sources of definitions of this profession. These sources define marriage counseling as an autonomous profession, as a…

Reviewed in terms of a concept analysis is the literature on child abuse, and presented is an annotated bibliography of approximately 550 journal articles, 18 books, 6 dissertations, and 40 pamphlets on child abuse. Briefly reviewed is the historical context of child abuse. A concept analysis of child abuse is offered which suggests that any…

Dominant-ethnic group conflict can be treated as either an independent or dependent variable. In this paper, dominant-ethnic conflict is discussed as the dependent variable. The paper's objectives are to: (1) present a preliminary sociological realistic theory of dominant-ethnic conflict; (2) compare and contrast the theory in terms of 2 types of…

Recent events in the world of evaluation suggest the need to reassess the basic purposes that justify its existence. In the long run, the language of evaluation must be shaped by the nature and intents of the audience and by the nature of what is being evaluated. It is the nature of what is being evaluated that must determine the methodologies,…

Libraries and information centers are rapidly becoming an integral part of American Indian live. A primary concern of Indian people is the availability of dependable information on those issues and programs which directly affect their day to day lives. As the community information agency, the library plays a key role in improving access to local…

To establish its position concerning the differences between general, prevocational, and vocational education, the Division of Vocational Education for New Mexico defined each area and applied these definitions to agriculture, distributive education, health occupations, home economics, office education, and trade and industrial education programs…

This work contains over 5,350 terms which have special or unique definition when applied in a cybernetic context. Corrections and improvements to the first edition of the dictionary have been made in this second edition. Entries are made for terms encountered in the Soviet cybernetic literature, without any attempt to define the field or to…

See TE 499 864, above. An answer guide to the exercises in this unit is contained in "Cases and Controversy" (TE 499 864).

This analysis, a review of literature and experience on performance-based education, is divided into nine chapters: chapter one, "The Short Form: Best-Guess Working Hypotheses for Competency-Based Education" (a summary of the frame of reference for this study and the recommendations for performance-based education which resulted from the effort);…

Conservation education, outdoor education, and environmental education all have as a common goal the understanding and appreciation of the natural world. Outdoor education is a method of teaching wherein established disciplines, topics, and concepts which can best be taught outdoors are taught outdoors. Conservation education is the study of man's…

As theorists and practitioners in the fields of communications, computers, bibliography, and photography work more closely to provide services and products to users, the need to assure precision of communications among them and to the public they serve becomes imperative. This compilation gleaned from various sources, is an effort to improve these…