The SET program's purpose is to teach effective communicating styles so that students can improve interpersonal communications with friends, parents, teachers, and others. Topics covered include nonverbal communication, attending behavior, feelings in communication, listening behavior, and communication responding and sending styles. The program…

Current developments in organizational theory suggest that the degree of goal consensus within many organizations may be problematic. This study uses an intensive case study to explore the implications of goal dissensus in the adoption of a four-day teaching week in a Canadian high school. (Author/IRT)

British educators have voiced concern over Section 10 of the Education Act of 1976, which emphasizes education of the handicapped in ordinary British schools. (Author)

The article reacts to and expands a symposium on the desirability of a transition from the traditional diagnostic-remedial model to the teacher-consultant model for providing services to children with "mild learning and behavior problems." (Author)

The curriculum and evaluation procedure for the new School of Medicine of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, Israel, is described. This primary care, public health oriented curriculum, which has been developed according to competency based methods, is based on an analysis of physician performance. (Author/JEG)

Examines the concept of inquiry and gives suggestions for its use in the classroom. A model of inquiry teaching is developed and illustrated by presenting two inquiry teaching approaches to a geographical study of world population and arable land. Some limitations of inquiry teaching are also discussed. (Author/JK)

Discusses the Canada Studies Foundation as a Canadian approach to curriculum development and provincial cooperation, and includes two brief cross-national comparisons, one with the United States and the other with the United Kingdom. (Editor/RK)

First discusses the history of the Chautauqua as an adult education Institution and its influence on this nation's adult continuing education programs. Then presents the genesis and outcomes of a field trip to the Chautauqua Institution in New York taken by a group of university graduate students and their faculty. (EM)

Makes a preliminary statement about "pastoral care" as a concept, structure and process in order to open the way for a critical theoretical and empirical appraisal of this phenpmenon. (Author/RK)

A 1975 study of community college composition programs revealed a dismaying lack of knowledge about educational innovations. (DD)

A description is given of an inservice faculty development model for career education awareness which successfully produced affective and cognitive training by developing (1) awareness of and (2) response to the career education movement, and (3) knowledge of and (4) application of career education concepts, issues, and materials. (MJB)

Personal characteristics of 310 Virginia secondary vocational teachers were examined to determine their proneness toward the adoption of educational innovations. The study and its results are discussed under the variables of age, professional publications read, number of years teaching in the present school district, response toward finding…

An attempt was made to give a brief overview of the methods used in gathering information about philanthropic foundations and their influence on educational practice and educational policy. This paper reported on nine foundations, all of which have demonstrated a sustained though variegated interest in education. (Author/RK)

Concludes that doing demonstrations and innovations is "good" so long as we are willing to pursue "goods" other than gains in student cognitive and affective behavioral outcomes. The situation for public education is unsatisfactory because the effort has not been clearly productive. A viable new beginning requires the alteration of fundamental…

Argues for broadening the perspective of formal curriculum in U.S. schools, so that schools can prepare students to function in a global community. In developing the rationale for global education, efforts by teachers to promote a broader perspective are reviewed, and steps necessary for promoting a global perspective are considered. Resources for…