The objectives and organization of educational and day care services for children below age five is considered because the form of provision made will largely determine the numbers and kinds of children who are sent to it, and the effects or benefits of an institution providing care will depend upon its quality, accessibility, and form. (Author/ND)

Prefaced by an interpretation of American preschool studies, a semihistorical approach is used in presenting findings from preschool experiments from the West Riding Educational Priority Area project in England, with a purpose being to suggest some alternatives and to sketch a framework for explaining the conflicting results. (ND)

Contains a discussion of: comparison of the concept of political literacy developed by Crick and Lister, role of a psychology of political education, outline and comparison of cognitive developmental approaches, and implications for political education and research suggestions. (ND)

The purpose is to show that the problems of academic freedom, or freedom generally, are not a matter of only one country, but are essentially the same in different countries where establishments have different points of view. (Author/ND)

Considering both family and educational influences on socialization processes of a child, the author specifically examines school learning as a critical transition and gives observations of the familial process at the time of leaving school. (ND)

With reference to university education, the importance of the education of specialists in fields outside of their specialism is explored. (ND)

This paper attempts to draw a sociological profile of young people in Europe between 15-19 years of age. It points out changes in the socialization functions of the three institutions, family, school and peer group. (Editor)

Between 1970 and 1973 the Comparative Research Unit at the University of London King's College investigated the social and educational implications of rapidly increasing full-time enrollments at the upper secondary level in England, Germany, France, Italy and Sweden. The methods and results of investigation are summarized in this paper. (Editor/RK)

This paper critically reviews methods of pupil assessment at the beginning, during and at the end of the second cycle of secondary education. It notes a trend towards more global assessment based on a mixture of external and internal, periodic and terminal, subjective and objective tests. (Editor)

Evidence from an investigation of Australian adolescents in school is used to clarify the concept of alienation which has been used to describe students' attitude to school. Article further considered the role of the student and the role of the worker, the world of school and the world of work. (Editor/RK)

After acknowledging the general ignorance concerning the changes which occur in American undergraduates who study off-campus, either domestically or internationally, the authors describe various studies which have attempted to assess off-campus educational experiences. (Editor)

American students participating in a study abroad program in Switzerland were studied over a three-year period (1968-1970) using the methods of participant observation and written questionnaires. (Editor)

This paper reported the results of the Gottingen questionnaire, in which students from the University of California who had studied at the University of Gottingen, West Germany were asked to evaluate the exchange program they had attended during the 1965-66 academic year. (Editor)

This paper suggests an extension of the ecological debate to educational issues. Through comparison of different approaches to the evaluation of a television program for pre-school children, it shows how certain approaches to early childhood education share some of the short-term orientation responsible for the environmental crisis. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this paper is to sketch the outlines of a conceptual map for the benefit of those who would be educational explorers outside their native lands. (Author/RK)