The Pan-African Conference on Education was organized by the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession, with the cooperation of UNESCO and many other groups. The conference invited representatives of teacher organizations and education ministries in both English- and French-speaking African countries. Of the 26 African…

This document reports on a regional workshop designed to examine ways that relevancy in participant training can be enhanced in the Consortium for International Development and related institutions, and to develop campus-oriented strategies to implement these methods. Papers, discussions, and work group reports are arranged under the following…

An introduction lists the council members and observers present at the meeting, and a summary is provided of the following meeting business: (1) opening of the session by the director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow; (2) election of the bureau; (3) adoption of the agenda; (4) examination of the General Information Programme's current activities in…

This document summarizes the activities of a conference held at the Institute of Finance Management in Tanzania on information resource sharing in Southern and Central Africa. Delegates and observers from Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania attended the conference. The 15 participants, 8 sponsored by…

Reports are presented from two meetings on research libraries that brought together individuals concerned with the process of scholarly communication. Libraries were the central topic of both meetings, but they were considered as part of a system that also includes book and journal publishing, the obligations and concerns of university…

Seven papers are presented from a 1982 conference on interagency collaboration in special education. Participants at the conference represented a variety of disciplines. B. McNulty and E. Soper cite 14 critical elements of successful interagency practice in chapter I, including communication, conflict resolution strategies, commitment to an…

This volume contains 411 abstracts of papers accepted for presentation in the Research Consortium sessions of the 1987 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Abstracts of presentations made in the symposia are presented first, followed by those in the free communication sessions, and…

As the final report of the Intergovernmental Conference on Communication Policies in Africa, this document states the objectives of the conference, which are closely related to the topics upon which conferees focused. These topics, as discussed in this report, are (1) communication policies and planning in Africa; (2) problems and perspectives of…

The conference described in these proceedings was designed to bring regional parent education program (PEP) personnel from six states together to plan and improve networks and linkages among PEP workers. Twenty-nine persons from four levels of parent education/involvement attended the two day conference and worked in four groups on specified…

The report presents a summary of problems, issues, and recommendations regarding the interagency cooperation of special education, occupational education, and vocational rehabilitation in New York State. The report is the result of seven conferences attended by state, regional, and local agency personnel which focused on five topic areas:…

The contents of a manual for peace education, intended primarily for the parents and teachers of preschool children, is outlined. The manual outline was prepared as the result of an international meeting sponsored by the World Organization for Early Childhood Education in France in May 1982. (RM)

A regional UNESCO seminar aimed to follow up on the goals set at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 and to contribute to the "Ten Year UN Girls' Education Initiative" (UNGEI). The seminar established three primary aims: (1) to develop a regional cooperation mechanism or network of Education for All (EFA) gender focal points, to…

The May 2001 regional seminar on "Teaching Materials: Controversial and Sensitive Issues, Multiperspectivity," held in Ohrid, was included in the Stability Pact, with financing from Austria and Switzerland. It was the first regional teacher training seminar in this region. The seminar reviewed controversial and sensitive issues in…

At the December 2000 meeting of the working group, four priority areas of activity were identified: (1) curriculum development; (2) initial and inservice teacher training; (3) development of teaching resources; and (4) history teaching in higher education. The working group also anticipates that added value and synergy can be created through…

These proceedings of the conference "Creating a Continuum of Excellence: A U.S. Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence Conference," produced by SERVE in collaboration with Nova Southeastern University was held in Coral Gables, Florida, 1999. It lists keynote speakers, action planning meetings, think tanks, and titles of exemplary practice sessions, as…