Proceedings are presented of a 1977 conference about aspects of international trade negotiations of importance to developing countries. Participants included staff from Washington-based international organizations, various United States departments, Congressional staff, and students of the Foreign Service Institute. Transcripts of three addresses…

An attempt to increase adoption of the Community Lodge program through the use of a site visit was investigated. The sample of 24 state mental hospitals agreed to have a workshop about the Lodge. At the conclusion of the workshop, 12 of the hospitals were told they would have the opportunity to send one staff member on an expense-paid site visit,…

This report stems from an extended inquiry into the planning and implementation of new, innovative schools, seen as a useful but failure-prone strategy for educational improvement. The Project on Social Architecture in Education studied the processes and outcomes of efforts to create three elementary and three secondary schools in public urban and…

Change is more advantageous if it incorporates an entire society rather than an element of that society, and the goals of educational development will be most fruitfully realized with a minimum of harmful effects if programs of instructional development are made to focus on the entire culture, rather than on a single social institution. A systems…

This volume serves as an overview document for a six-volume sourcebook collection describing the development of a regional environmental learning system. Included in this volume are: (1) organization of the sourcebook, (2) project description, (3) issues, (4) definitions of environmental education, (5) approaches and strategies for environmental…

This training program, designed to assist treatment program decision-makers in planning, implementing, and monitoring practices and services for alcoholic women, provides participants the opportunity to measure the current state of their agency programs, select priorities for change, and develop an action plan for change. The program sessions, led…

The empirical phase of this two-phased project was focused on identifying children's sex-stereotypes about adult occupations and testing the use of role-reversed stories as a method of modifying those attitudes within school settings. Subjects were first through fifth grade children from each of a suburban, a small town and a rural school.…

The behavioral view that depression results from inadequate, ineffective and/or insufficient reinforcers was explored. Since the depressed person does not act in a manner open to positive reinforcement by others, he suffers ongoing and deepening depression. The task of the therapist is to improve behavior, especially social skills, so that the…

A brief review of systems theory provides a rationale for an underlying theoretical model within which systems theory can be more completely understood. The essence of the model is that persons are the major unit of study because the available means of satisfying "basic needs" define and shape interaction patterns in the family as in other human…

This comprehensive training program, Together We Can, involves a cooperative effort to reduce sex-role stereotyping and to expand options in education, work, and life styles for females and males. This packet consists of facilitator and participant manuals for use with school administrators. The training kit is designed to raise awareness of the…

Governments and change agents have assumed that people spontaneously would come forward and take part in development activities. But people have not come forward. It is now time that they be asked. Therefore, any project, program, or proposal involving a behavioral change should build in a mobilization strategy and resources for monitoring…

This booklet, written for students, discusses ways that students can work to end sex discrimination where it exists in their schools. Information is included on how to file a grievance; how to work with students, administrators and teachers on Title IX; how to run workshops; and how to publicize issues related to Title IX. Appended are a…

The question addressed in this thesis was, "Does the decision source for change make a difference to a teacher's or implementor's organizational commitment and job satisfaction?" It was hypothesized that the decision sources for implementing Individually Guided Education (IGE) in schools does not affect the teacher's commitment to the school and…

This paper was commissioned by the Education Commission of the States to identify the educational needs of Puerto Rican students in the mainland United States. A historical overview of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and their relationships with mainland United States is presented with a focus on the Puerto Rican emigration to the mainland. The role…

A project was conducted to help fifty-one academically disadvantaged students in grade 10 to gain a greater awareness of their own interests and abilities, career alternatives, and job responsibilities. Students were selected who lacked one or more of the following characteristics: awareness of employment opportunities, job skills necessary to…