Discusses a number of intervening variables that influence the differences found between teachers familiar with and those who adopt new projects, such as relevance, facilitating and limiting influences, objectives and perceived effects of new projects in education. (Editor)

Leisure counseling, an outgrowth of education, counseling, and psychotherapy, is a new and complicated discipline, for which quick programs, easy solutions, and "workable" techniques may be neither possible nor desirable. (MB)

New needs in foreign language teaching call for new approaches to teaching methods and materials. This article illustrates how a pragmatic reference framework, involving speech acts and communication situations, can be used to choose or develop learning materials, specifically for French as second language. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Reviews a "passionately intelligent manifesto" which puts forward proposals for a new kind of college. (Editor)

The LONGSTEP (Longitudinal Study of Educational Practices) project of the American Institutes for Research indicates that moderate innovation has a better chance to help students than larger, more intensive innovation. (DD)

Description of information mapping technique including advantages, applications, and limitations. (STS)

Examines how the First World War prompted British museums to change their educational functions. Discusses museums in pre-war Britain, wartime exhibitions and educational activities, the outcome of the war experience, and First World War's implications for education in museums. (GEA)

Relates Feuerstein's theory of cognitive modifiability and mediated learning experience to Native American educational issues, including loss of cultural identity, and low academic performance, self-concept, and motivation. Suggests that sound cognitive instruction linked to Indian cultural heritage stimulates motivation and promotes the survival…

Discusses the relevance of incorporating poetry into the discipline of sociology. Includes a poem and its sociological analysis to demonstrate the number of relevant sociological issues and concepts which can be introduced through poetry. (BSR)

This annotated bibliography lists recent publications and documents dealing with educational innovations. A subject and country index is provided, as well as sources where readers may obtain the announced documents and publications. (CLB)

As important as teaching processes are in adult learning, it may be even more important to help adults find connections between discipline content and the issues they experience personally as they move through the life cycle. (Author/MSE)

This annotated bibliography from the International Educational Reporting Service lists recent publications and documents dealing with educational innovations. A subject and country index is provided as well as sources where readers may obtain the announced documents and publications. (CLB)

Reviews rationales for unified arts programs which were integrated into the general curriculum of elementary and secondary schools in the last ten years. Examines the fundamental assumptions of these multi-art programs and concludes they have not been utilized as planned. Encourages art educators to press for further development of integrated art…

Marks the 20th year of the League for Innovation in the Community College with a review of its accomplishments in the areas of information technology, leadership development, international education, energy and health education, and special projects. (DMM)

The educational potential of time-lapse video sequences and weather data obtained using a conventional microcomputer are considered in the light of recent advances in both fields. Illustrates how videos and microcomputers can be used to study clouds in meteorology classes. (RM)