A model junior high school art curriculum for use in Manitoba (Canada) schools is outlined. The first section provides an overview of the whole program, discussing rationale, goals, student objectives, the adolescent stage of visual development, the special student, the design of the guide, program implementation, and a scope and sequence. Methods…

The educational system of New Zealand is described, and guidelines concerning the academic placement of students who wish to study in U.S. institutions are provided. Early childhood, primary, and secondary education are described, with attention to admissions, grading, and curricula. Consideration is also given to certificates and diplomas for…

The educational system of Peru is described, and guidelines concerning the placement of students who wish to study in U.S. institutions are provided. After describing preschool through secondary education, attention is directed to technical and vocational training, teacher training, the universities, training in seven health fields, and other…

The educational system of Thailand is described, and guidelines concerning students who wish to study in U.S. institutions are provided. After a description of the organizational structure of Thai education and national education policy, attention is directed to elementary and secondary education, vocational and technical education, teacher…

A survey of the status of language usage in Singapore begins with an overview of patterns of usage of Malay, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil. The function of English as a primary language along with the official language, Malay, is discussed, along with the history of the dominance of English since Singapore's role as a British colony despite…

A survey of the status of language usage in Zimbabwe begins with an overview of the use patterns of English, Shona, and Ndebele, focusing on communication between ethnic and language groups, the decline in native English speakers and increase in English usage, political issues, educational requirements for languages, illiteracy, and the media. A…

This is the second of two articles about a study of the implementation of a media literacy curriculum project in three inner city schools Grade 5's in Montreal. The authors describe the development of technological literacy among the teachers and students as they learned about two Media Literacy concepts. The teaching featured the use of a…

This paper considers the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to enable students to access the curriculum in inclusive classrooms. The research considers the latest trends regarding promotion of the use of ICT in education in Australia and then considers the outcome from the perspective of one state, that of Western Australia.…

Reform documents have provided a framework for advancing science education (e.g., The Australian National Science Standard Committee, 2002), but omit the need to assess preservice teachers prior knowledge for designing effective learning programs. A pretest-posttest 34-item survey linked to the course outcomes (associated with four constructs)…

The rationalisation of class sizes and subject offerings in majors, and the implementation of workloads models establishing parity in teaching hours and in student load per staff member across Faculty have created considerable challenges for tertiary foreign-language teaching over the past decade. This paper presents one way of responding to the…

The document contains the texts of three presentations from a conference on financial support of the sciences and humanities in West Germany and the United States. The first paper explains financial support of the sciences and the humanities in West Germany. Awards and uses of funds are primarily determined by the scholarly community, which also…

This book is a compilation of the edited versions of a representative selection of papers on school and community presented at a European conference involving more than twenty countries. The papers are arranged in three sections. The first section of six papers lays the framework for the discussion which follows. Section 2, comprised of six papers…

Descriptions of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian educational systems are presented. The purpose of the document is to provide American educators with background information to help Vietnamese refugees adjust to the American educational system. This booklet was developed by Iowa State University to alleviate the adjustment problems of Vietnamese…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: relationships between decoding skills and reading comprehension in college students, speed of retrieval of verbal information and patterns of oral reading errors,…

Youth employment is the focus of this compilation of 11 working papers (by selected specialists) developed to aid the National Commission for Manpower Policy (NCMP) in its ongoing efforts to develop a national manpower policy. An introductory section comments on the overall needs/conclusions revealed by the policy papers. Policy paper titles and…