The collection of ten essays by Native Americans who are involved in Indian education includes a preface by Thomas Thompson; "The Indian Student Amid American Inconsistencies" by Vine Deloria, Jr.; "Growing Up in E'da How-One Idaho Girlhood" by LaNada Boyer; "Multicultural Teacher Education at Rough Rock" by Dillon…

Five areas concern the Subcommittee on Indian Education for 1979. First, there is lack of coordination at the funding level and the operations level among the many federal agencies and programs involved in providing early childhood education services to Indians. The feasibility of establishing a National Center for Early Childhood Indian Education…

This progress report describes the on-going development of a system to help Americans, especially those who have dealings abroad, to interpret accurately the meaning of messages originating in cultures other than their own. The history, rationale, and methodology of the project are described in detail. Profiles of cultural concepts are provided…

This paper draws from a number of sources, from Muhammad Ali to TV commercials, to demonstrate the quite different conceptions that black and white Americans have of the meaning of boasting and bragging. For blacks, boasting and bragging are two distinct ways of speaking and communication. Boasting is a joking, playful verbal bahavior, not to be…

Recent developments and problems in the eradication of illiteracy in Asia and Oceania are reviewed in this conference report. Literacy is a critical issue because more than half of the region's population is illiterate, and social and economic development cannot progress when the literacy rate is so low. In an effort to improve the situation, most…

Discussion at the OECD Education Committee meeting focused on education policies of OECD nations in the context of social and economic trends, the contribution of education to preparation for working life, and the transition from school to employment. The report is presented in two major sections. Section I outlines the educational policy debate.…

The overall objective of the Dine Teacher Corps Project is to demonstrate the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the development and implementation of a bilingual/multicultural training and inservice training program for educators who will be cognizant of and responsive to the unique educational needs of the Indian child. The five…

Seven 1979 innovative programs in continuing education are described which won awards from the American College Testing Program and the National University Extension Association. Awards were granted according to programs' transferability, innovativeness, workability, and impact in one of four categories: instructional programs, student services…

A series of fifteen correspondence studies for high school credit by contract are presented. Contracts are included for boating skills and seamanship; boatbuilding; food and food preparation; gardening; livestock raising; salmon aquaculture; sewing, knitting, and needlework; small engine repair; taxidermy and tanning; trapping; training animals;…

This report provides training activities for teachers, counselors, and other elementary-secondary staff members who are involved in the delivery of career education to students. Training activities are based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education…

DURING ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION THE CENTER MADE ITS SERVICES KNOWN TO HELP SCHOOLS ELIMINATE THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DESEGREGATION. AMONG THE PROBLEM AREAS INVESTIGATED IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, CLINICS, INSTITUTES, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS WERE--CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE SERVICES, TEACHING METHODS, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES,…

THIS COMPENDIUM SUMMARIZES MAJOR FINDINGS FROM WORK AND PREPARATORY RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY THE CZECHOSLOVAK INSTITUTE FOR ADULT EDUCATION AND OTHER INSTITUTES, TOGETHER WITH PRACTICAL FINDINGS FROM THE FIELD OF ADULT EDUCATION. ARTICLES AND OTHER MATERIALS ARE PRESENTED ON SUCH TOPICS AS CURRENT NATIONAL NEEDS FOR VOCATIONAL, ACADEMIC, AND GENERAL…

OUR EDUCATIONAL, GOVERNMENTAL, RELIGIOUS, AND COMMUNITY AGENCIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PREPARING INDIVIDUALS NOT ONLY FOR A WORLD OF WORK BUT MORE BASICALLY FOR A WORLD OF RAPID AND DRAMATIC CHANGE. AN 8-STATE COOPERATIVE PROJECT CALLED "DESIGNING EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE" HAS MADE AN EFFORT TO PREDICT CHANGES WHICH SOCIETY WILL EXPERIENCE…

Ten demonstration projects were established in selected rehabilitation facilities in cooperation with other agencies to serve mentally retarded young adults (ages 16 to 21 years, IQ's 50 to 75). Pupils in special class-workshop settings were evaluated by workshop managers, teachers, and rehabilitation counselors. Each project teacher was…

Attention is focused on the profession's current concern over the formidable problems involved in a language teacher's attempting to interpret a target culture with generalizations that might well be non-verifiable when scrutinized by such areas specialists as cultural anthropologists, behavioral psychologists, psycholinguists, semanticists, and…