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Cooper, John William; Leib, Karl E.; Todd, Arthur J.; Lancelot, William E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
This bulletin comprises a symposium on Home and Family Life in a Changing Civilization by William John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Education; Karlee E. Lib, professor of commerce, University of Iowa; Arthur J. Todd, professor of sociology, North-Wester University; and William H. Lancelot, head, vocational education department, Iowa State…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Family Relationship, Family Life, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Anthony, Vivian – Economics, 1983
How the comparison of different economic systems came to be included as a part of the Oxford and Cambridge (England) A-level syllabus is reviewed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Course Content, Cross Cultural Studies
Nerad, Maresi – 1988
The way in which an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics at the University of California (Berkeley), tried to raise its status and adhere to academic values of a research university after starting out as a low prestige undergraduate program is analyzed. Some of the related research questions are: whether academic departments…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Departments, Employed Women, Employment Level
Nel, Johanna – 1989
This study investigated: (1) the early efforts of agricultural extension to provide educational opportunities for Wyoming settlers at the turn of the century; and (2) the establishment of the Cooperative Extension Service in 1914. The study was primarily an archival and library review of published and unpublished documents, with major emphasis…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education