Describes an attempt by educators in the USSR to keep up with the knowledge explosion in the sciences by improving the content of the curricula and textbooks to reflect modern developments in all fields of scientific knowledge. Emphasis was placed on balancing theoretical and practical aspects of the content, relating content to learning abilities…

Compares principles and practices of educational planning in socialist and capitalist countries, based on criticism and extensions of the discussion of educational planning by B.K. Kluchnikov in a recent issue of "Prospects," (v10 n1 p27ff, 1980). Information is also presented on socialist versus capitalist objectives for educational planning in…

Discusses regional cooperation in education in Europe. Problems include that European nations are intensely nationalistic and differ a great deal in languages, values, and educational objectives. Conditions favoring cooperation include that Europe is committed to increasing international understanding and peace through nongovernmental…

Focuses on why some children succeed in school while others fail. Suggests five principles to guide educators in improving achievement levels--providing schooling and facilities for all students, involving parents in education, instilling good working habits in pupils at an early age, developing curriculum materials systematically, and providing…

Explores how international institutions such as the World Bank influence educational policy in developing nations. Concludes that the major, if sometimes unintentional, influence of international agencies in educational change is to finance those educational programs that favor dominant upper classes at the expense of the poor. (DB)

Reviews long-term plans drawn up by the Ministry of Education and the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences regarding educational establishments and educational programs in the Soviet Union. Emphasis is placed on forecasting educational development problems and policies. (DB)

Views difficulties in determining educational objectives for the 1980s with specificity and precision. A major problem is that educators must formulate objectives more carefully now that education is so strongly influenced by the management-by-objectives movement. Topics discussed include theories of educational objectives, the relationship of…

Suggests ways of furthering interdisciplinary synthesis--interpreted as an attempt to give a certain dynamics to the structures of knowledge by interlinking disciplinary outlooks. One way of encouraging this synthesis is to develop a transnational corps of scientists and encourage them to work on constantly changing interdisciplinary projects. (DB)

Illustrates a variety of justifications for teacher selection and suggests that the only valid one is to find men and women who are likely to serve learners best. (DB)

Presents a case study of the construction of a social university, based on nine years' experience of the adult education courses at the University of Florence, Italy. A social university is defined as a university which encourages students to learn by various forms of communication, including seeking information and recreational activities in…

Describes the major objective of schools and families in East Germany as the education of universally and harmoniously developed socialist personalities. Ways in which families and schools work together to achieve this objective include investigation by teachers of the social and educational situation of pupils' families and detailed reports by…

Describes how North Island College, British Columbia, has developed an educational program which combines the North Americna community-college concept with the British open-learning system. (DB)

Discusses principles, methods, places, and outcomes of nutrition education. Suggests that in order to have the active cooperation of participants, healthy relationships between the various agencies, officials, local functionaries, and nutritionists should be maintained. (Author/KC)

Presents 14 hypotheses about ways in which distance teaching can be used to maximize education. Distance teaching is an educational process in which a significant portion of the teaching is conducted by someone removed in space and/or time from the learner. The multimedia approach is the most effective for this method of education. (Author/KC)

Discusses ambivalent attitudes toward the influence of external agencies, specifically the World Bank, on policies and programs of development. Concludes that the strategy of lending must be backed up by the analysis of development situations, assessment of the political climate for mass oriented development, and the basis of political commitment…