This study was an attempt to document and analyze the national effort of Columbia, South America to resolve its educational problems by the process of organizational and administrative reform. (Author/RK)

This paper focused on the school organizational structure as a network of contrived social roles held together by psychological bonds evolving in some instances from adherence to the formal structure, in other instances from resistance to that very same structure, and essentially from the interplay between these factors (Katz & Kahn 1966).…

This special number of the International Review of Education examines the social dimension of handicap, in a variety of national settings, developed and underdeveloped, highly industrialised and emerging. (Author)

This report focused on special education activity at three different levels in the educational establishment: teacher-handicapped child interaction, educator-handicapped child level, and policy maker-handicapped child interaction. (Author/RK)

Author discussed the concept "Defectology" and put forward for each type of handicap the appropriate educational provision based on practices which appeared to have had most success in European socialist countries and described the psychological and social assumptions lying behind them. (Editor/RK)

Authors concentrated on the social roots of handicap, particularly the extent to which the handicap reflects the formal barriers imposed by societies themselves. (Editor/RK)

Author considered the problem of education for the handicapped living in developing countries and made suggestions based on the projects under development in some African countries. (Editor/RK)

This article is concerned with the interaction between children with an obvious handicap and their families and its result on them both, with a discussion of some parent oriented assistance programs. (Author)

This paper describes recent advances in split-brain research and summarizes the qualities characterizing the two cerebral hemispheres. Traditional patterns of education, it is argued, are inadequate since they concentrate almost exclusively on the left hemisphere. Teaching strategies and school experiences are suggested to accelerate right…

After explaining the anti-science impact of the "Gang of Four," the author reports on the National Science Policy Conference held in Peking in March, 1978. In summarizing major speeches and the proposed eight-year development plan, he emphasizes the renewed feelings of liberalism and confidence among Chinese scientists. (SJL)

This report describes the Transition to Work Simulator (TWS), a computerized model of the important career decisions which people make from youth through midcareer. The implications of TWS as a planning tool for human resource development at the national level are discussed. (Author/SJL)

The author describes the evaluation planning done for the Project for Science Integration in Ghana, with emphasis on the contextual limitations in a developing nation concerning the teachers, students, authors, materials, and finances. With careful planning, it was found that illuminating data for instructional improvement could be collected. (SJL)

The author finds two major threats to school decision-making structures in the current trend toward unionization among school principals. First, it separates middle managers from top management, disrupting the traditional team approach to policymaking. Second, it requires greater specification and therefore restriction and formalization of roles.…

The author delineates the scope of this special journal issue on the last 25 years in world education and summarizes the findings of various contributors on the issue's main themes: quantitative and qualitative changes in education and educational processes, education's contribution to human welfare, and international cooperation efforts. (SJL)

Using data from 1960 to 1976, the author examines population and enrollment trends for successive levels of education in the world's developed and developing regions and computes enrollment and drop-out ratios. National expenditures on education and gross national product per capita expense figures are also presented for these regions. (SJL)