Abstracts of 159 journal articles, reports, and related items published in India from 1956 to 1969, are arranged under 36 headings, as follows: Academic achievement, administration and organization, adult education, basic education, courses of study (higher education), curriculum, education (general), educational psychology, educational research,…

The following ten papers were presented to the Open Court Editorial Advisory Board in 1971. "Where Educational Nonsense Comes From" by Jacques Barzun focuses on education as the removal of ignorance. "The Importance of Teaching Poetry" by Cleanth Brooks discusses the powers of poetry in the instruction of yound children. In…

Papers in this publication are collected from a conference on social science concepts and classroom methods which focused on the theories of Jerome Bruner. The first article, entitled "Jerome Bruner," outlines four of Bruner's themes--structure, readiness, intuition, and interest--which relate to cognitive learning. Three…

This book suggests a new model or new approach to the social systems operating in inner city schools which affect teaching and learning. One of the reasons we are not educating more urban lower class black youngsters is that urban educators are playing the game of teaching and learning by the wrong rules. The rules actually running the schools are…

In October 1973, representatives of six groups of Tennesseans reflecting professional and lay opinion about education were asked to identify what they considered to be the most critical current issues in Tennessee education. The most frequently mentioned responses in this initial phase of the survey were used to construct a listing of 10 key…

A framework, based on the idea that social studies curriculum should be founded on conceptual understandings and processes drawn from the various social science disciplines, suggests how concepts and related generalizations from each of the disciplines may be used as initial building blocks for developing curriculum. The disciplines are considered…

Contents of this manual center on and develop action check-lists for parents concerning the following topics: how to help your child do better in school; how to make sure all children learn to read--sample questionnaire: parent survey of reading achievement; how to use state and federal funds to force educational reform in your school; how to take…

Among the explorations undertaken in the course of establishing the National Institute of Education (NIE) by the NIE Planning Unit was a set of eleven conferences of experts on educational problems, methods, and content. Three of these conferences focused on the contributions that anthropology, psychology, and sociology might make to the…

The conference report recommends that NIE promote and support ethnographic studies of education in cultures without schools and in those where western schooling is being introduced. Since the values of formal education are now in question and alternative systems are being suggested, it is offered that non-formal educational processes be examined…

The purpose of this study was to examine self-reinforcement as an agent of behavior change with children who were deficient in desired attention behaviors. Twenty three first and second grade school children were taught through external reinforcement procedures to raise their level of attention on a simple discrimination task. Subjects in one…

The Portsmouth Project attempted to develop a consciousness in teachers of how they acted in their own classrooms and of the effect their behavior had on the learning environment of children. A basic assumption of the program was that teachers will change their style of interacting with students in the classroom if they become more aware of their…

Reviews curriculum reform being implemented at the Library School of Stuttgart for students planning to work in public libraries. Components of the new curriculum include core courses in library science, electives in special areas of librarianship, seminars in chosen subject disciplines, and field work in libraries and government agencies. (LRW)

The annual report of the American Association of University Professors' Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure outlines the committee's recommendations and actions taken concerning institutions' compliance with association standards, including censure, removal of censure, and clarification of policies and standards concerning institutional…

Warns that educational software suffers in quality because programmers have generally ignored the role of the curriculum. Recommends steps for developing computer assisted instructional software and describes the roles of content experts, designers, and programmers in the process. (TW)

Adding more funds to American education will not accomplish the needed reform. Needed are restoration of discipline, ending of drug and alcohol abuse, raising academic standards, encouraging good teaching, restoring parent and state/local government involvement, and teaching the basics. (MSE)