Discusses the life of Bengt Skytte, the Swedish supranationalist in education, science, and culture; the assumptions about knowledge upon which higher education policy in Sweden is based; self-evaluation in higher education; adult Swedish education; and new rules for study circles which are widely used in adult education in Sweden. (RM)

In the United Kingdom the intensive study of major regions in college level geography courses has declined in importance, and multidisciplinary area studies courses have become popular. In some, geography has played a major part; in others, it is insignificant or absent. Geoaphers should become more involved in area studies. (Author/RM)

An art class for future elementary teachers was asked to select art activities for classroom demonstration. Eighty percent selected how-to-do-it, single shot, fun-therapy, manipulations with short-term success orientations. This emphasis on the superficial and frivolous aspects of art shows the need for reexamining elementary art education…

The new arts education program at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, which stresses aesthetic education is described. Music, dance, drama, and the visual and literary arts are all included in the undergraduate program. (RM)

In 1981 the Liechtenstein government issued a regulation concerning the gymnasium or secondary school. The educational objectives and administrative structure of and teacher obligations to the gymnasium under the new regulation are described. (RM)

An instrument focusing on organizational (containing items related to management/teaching) and curriculum (containing items related to personal/social development) issues was sent to an Australia-wide sample of 400 primary/secondary principals in government/nongovernment schools. Results are reported and discussed under three categories:…

This author explores what he calls the mindlessness of ability grouping and explains why it has become a fact of life in most school systems. (Editor)

Through OE's National Diffusion Network educators learn about programs that work--and one of them may just be the answer to a problem of their own. (Editor)

The director of the National Institute of Education talks of problems that vex education researchers and believes that a breakthrough is close at hand. (Editor)

Evaluates the work of the boards of education in promoting and enhancing the schooling of America's children and youth. (Author/RK)

The socialization of girls in the secondary schools of England, West Germany, and East Germany provides an opportunity to compare the functionality of different curricular and structural arrangements in educational systems of technologically advanced nations. (Author)

After a brief consideration of the language situation in Wales, this research explains the need for the Schools Council "English in Wales" Project (1973-7) and describes the work of the project to date. (Editor/RK)

Describes the consequences of the implementation of several commercially produced individualization systems on teacher beliefs, practices, and on pupil achievement and attitude. (Author/RK)

Article reported the results of a survey of principals of 670 schools in all cities of the United States with a population of over 300,000 on their attitudes about the educational worth of a wide variety of educational innovations. (Author/RK)

Described is China's education system which follows the three basic guidelines laid down by the Chinese Communist Party in 1959; namely, that education must serve proletarian politics, must be combined with productive labor, and must be under the direction of the Communist Party. Available from: American-Asian Educational Exchange, Inc., 88…