This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a manual for student teachers covering three main areas--(1) general bases of the science of education; (2) the theory of education and instruction; and (3) the theory of character education. The reasons for certain educational phenomena are discussed. Soviet educational…

Discusses the need for a labor education program which combines vocational preparation and moral training, in accordance with educational needs defined by the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Presents examples of schools throughout the USSR which have involved vocational students in exchanges with local labor collectives.…

Discussed are: ideological, political, and moral education; curriculum and teaching methods; polytechnical education, labor training, and vocational guidance; aesthetic education; physical education; and the role that the Leninist Komsomol plays in developing and improving compulsory universal secondary education and communist education. (RM)

Discusses the strong educational role of mass media in the Soviet Union. Articles cover "Controlling Individual Development and Behavior,""The Educational Potential of the Mass Media,""Some Problems of Ideological Work and the Tasks of Psychology," plus discussion of books, television, the press, films, and the…