Incorporating productive work in the curriculum is seen as an integral part of India's Fifth Plan war against poverty and as a base for self-reliance. Five programmes for reforming India's non-productive education system are outlined, culminating in a suggestion for an educational pause which would allow students to take part in the productive…

This study was undertaken to investigate the relationships between some characteristics of elementary schools in the province of Saskatchewan and the degree of adoption of educational innovations by these schools. (Author)

Author is convinced that organizational development is a valuable tool for improving the educational climate in schools. (GB)

Only by having a well-educated and competent problem-solving infrastructure throughout society is it reasonable to expect that democracy will remain adequate to challenge it faces. (Author)

Suggests that technology education is an essential component of future science curricula for non-science secondary students. Explores some of the important issues and problems, and suggests directives for action, in moving toward technology education in the high schools. (JR)

A discussion of a workshop in "Affective Education in Sex Education," in New York City. The teachers studied changes in attitudes, values, and the evolution of committments. The construction of decision-making and evaluation tools in the affective domain in sex education was the most important learning activity. (Author/EK)

This article discusses applications of Lonergan's thinking on tradition and innovation to the world of Catholic education. Even now, at the beginning of the 21st century and 20 years after his death, it is worthwhile to explore his understanding of tradition and innovation, with attention to how it related to the Catholic intellectual culture of…

A reprint of a speech delivered at the Conference on Open Learning in Higher Education held in January, 1974, in Lincoln, Nebraska. (HB)

This report presents the research findings from the second year of a continuing investigation to determine the diffusion patterns to university professors of four specific educational innovations developed by the IMPACT Program. Issues addressed include: (1) creation of a corps of secondary and tertiary receivers, (2) future adoption and…

The purpose was to identify characteristics of the faculty and departments which had voluntarily initiated instructional innovations through the Educational Development Program (EDP). A profile of the participating faculty was developed and characteristics of 90 EDP project directors were compared with those of a random sample of 250 other faculty…

Presented is a report reviewing and evaluating the status of elementary science education in the state of Virginia. The report addresses the questions of: (l) What patterns can be observed from the adoption, by local schools, of elementary science programs? (2) What do standardized tests tell about elementary students' learning in science? (3)…

This case study illustrates and expands upon the principle that innovation efforts involve both role change and change in role interrelationships, changes that (ideally) will be supportive of the innovation effort, but which may--if duplication, gaps among roles, or tension arise--weaken or destroy the effort. A planning effort in the Cleveland…

This project was designed to stimulate the fullest and most rapid possible utilization of the Parent/Child Toy Lending Library. The Library is an eight-week course for parents of pre-school children. Parents learn how to teach concepts such as color matching, auditory discrimination, problem solving, and motor coordination using eight basic toys…

Three different approaches to the problem of linking educational knowledge producers and knowledge users are studied in this paper. First, data are reported describing the knowledge generation and knowledge communication behavior of twelve successful innovators. Second, characteristics of twelve programs, conceived to train persons as change…

This publication discusses plans for an experimental "middenschool" program, which is being considered for adoption in the Netherlands. The middenschool program would extend the period of basic education beyond primary school into the first stage of secondary school, serving students in the 12-16 or 11-15 age bracket. This booklet…