A descriptive analysis is presented of four New York area adult programs in English as a second language or English to speakers of other languages. The following characteristics of the programs are identified: student constituencies, program goals and objectives, methods of needs assessment, program design (formats and methods), classroom dynamics…

The result of a curriculum development project known as Project Open, this curriculum guide offers a course on communication technology to ninth graders who are participating in the Career Exploration in Technology program and have completed the eighth grade course. Nineteen units form the subject matter of the guide: an introduction, visual…

Purposes for multicultural education in recent educational literature are reviewed and a transformist conception of multicultural education is expounded. A review of educational literature published since 1968 indicates that several objectives have been touted as core purposes for multicultural education. These include developing student…

A guide is designed for elementary school teachers with handicapped students in their classrooms. Seven sections comprise the document. Section I discusses the implications of mainstreaming for classroom teachers. Discussed are 1) the physical and social isolation of the handicapped students in the 1960s; 2) the impact of Public Law 94-142 which…

Six social studies units for teachers of elementary and secondary students are presented. The document, written by various authors, is one component of the Pike County, Alabama, ethnic studies inservice training project. Objectives of the units are to help students develop an awareness and understanding of differing cultures and customs. Topics…

This report presents the opinions of a large cross section of policy decision makers from many fields in response to three basic questions about the future of adult learning: (1) What trends will have the most impact on life in America from 1980 to 2000? (2) What societal, institutional, and personal needs should be given priority as goals? and…

Guidelines for the implementation of individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children are provided. An introductory section details the mandates of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and defines the components of the IEP and a list of 12 exceptionalities. Section 2 discusses assessment, including…

Current educational and fiscal trends have combined to create a complex management environment in which two-year colleges have had to forgo long-range planning and concentrate on the immediate problem of dealing with ongoing change. The dilemma caused by this change is evident in the intensive reexamination of what community colleges should be and…

Four papers presented at a seminar on graduate education sponsored by the Advisory Centre for University Education at The University of Adelaide and the Flinders University Educational Research Unit in Australia are presented. In "Teaching and Learning in Graduate Education: An Overview," Robert Cannon provides a background summary of developments…

The paper assesses four community based world affairs education projects--Columbus-in-The World (CITW), Kettering-Findlay Experiment (KFE), Community International Education Consultation (CIEC), Overseas Development Council, and Kettering Foundation Transnational Dialogues on Food and Development (TND). The objectives of the paper are to assess…

This annotated bibliography lists 89 entries of selected educational materials published in Pakistan during the period July-September 1978. Pakistan journals, newspapers, and government publications provide the sources of materials. They are organized in 20 categories: administration, organization, and financing of education; adult education;…

This curriculum resource guide on building trades is one of a series of seventeen specialized curriculum guides for occupational education of the marginal, handicapped, or special needs occupational education student. The guide begins with six behavior clusters that contain a series of forty-two instructional topics designed to teach job-required…

This staff/community training workshop handbook was written for teachers, counselors, career education specialists, administrators, and other educational staff; for parents, and Indian community representatives; and for any others who will be providing support for a native American career education program, or who will be actively engaged in…

The job position of military advisory and assistance group (MAAG) officer for the Air Force as performed in Iberian Spanish is described in terms of terminal skill objectives (TSOs) and enabling objectives (EOs). This analysis is part of the communication/language objectives-based system (C/LOBS), which supports the front-end analysis efforts of…

This Iberian Spanish Function Catalog presents sentences, phrases, and patterns organized by language functions and functional categories. This catalog is part of the communication/language objectives-based system (C/LOBS), which supports the front-end analysis efforts of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. The C/LOBS project,…