Examines how Soviet elementary textbooks inculcate political attitudes about Lenin, history and current events, and the importance of the Soviet army. Excerpts from readers are included as illustrations of political instruction. (AV)

Values education is occasionally attacked as violative of the privacy rights of students and others. Stipulating a definition of the right to privacy, the author develops some general reasons for protecting the right to privacy. General criteria for judging the extent to which values education curricula violate privacy are established and applied…

An outline of the nature of the timetabling problem, suggesting the kind of requirements that arise in practice and the criteria used to evaluate timetables, was presented. (Author/RK)

Investigates high school student exposure to education about state government by examining student enrollment, course offerings, textbooks, and curriculum guides. Concludes that there is a need for more extensive treatment of state government politics and political behavior, and less coverage of details of institutional structures. (Author/DB)

Geomorphology courses in British universities emphasize the main landform/process systems rather than more abstract concepts. Recommends a more theoretical focus on fundamental geomorphic processes and methodological problems. Available from: Faculty of Modern Studies, Oxford Polytechnic, Headington, Oxford OX3 OBP, England. (Author/AV)

Examines efforts to reorganize professional certification of persons engaged in scientific and scholarly activities in the Soviet Union. Regulations ratified by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1976 deal with creating special councils to examine dissertations, and drafting standards of dissertation originality and relevance.…

Describes educational practices in the Cameroon related to moral and civic education with an international orientation. Learning activities involve students in research on the United Nations and UNESCO, celebration of international festivals, and collecting folk tales from senior citizens. (Author/DB)

An exploratory study addressed two problems: (1) Can basic concepts or clusters of issues and problems be identified in the field of psychology as it is currently taught to undergraduates? (2) What influences a teacher's selection and coverage of specific items? (Author/AV)

Evaluates the extent to which the "revolution in education" in China has succeeded in integrating communist theory with practice. Concludes that the pre-1975 emphasis on political indoctrination has been tempered by efforts to raise the cultural and technical levels of the Chinese people. (Author/DB)

Reviews the history, content, and trends in geography teaching and research in Ireland from the 19th century to the present. All educational levels and geographical societies are described. In the past, Irish geographic education had significant influences abroad; however, its recent development has been affected by external factors. (Author/AV)

Discusses the need for educational researchers and practitioners to cooperate in order to plan an integrated curriculum with clearly defined learning objectives and a goal of creating intelligent, responsible communist citizens. (AV)

Discusses the feasibility of running computer-based economic simulations on a pocket programmable calculator. Two programs are described. For each program, information is presented on objectives, operating instructions, notes to the teacher, and detailed instructions to students. (Author/DB)

Discusses the relationship of physical and social sciences to religion and moral values. Teacher-scientists should be especially aware of the relationship because they are subject to a code of ethics and are encouraged to incorporate values into the curriculum. (AV)

Describes the mathematics curriculum instituted in Soviet secondary schools in 1975-76. Emphases of the new curriculum are the role of mathematics in sicence, technology, production, and everyday life, and the potential of the mathematics course for instilling a materialist world view. (Author/DB)

After centuries of unsuccessful if earnest effort by missionaries and laymen in church, government, provincial and mixed types of schools, the proportion of native students completing secondary school in Canada was, and is, depressingly low. (Author/AM)