Purpose: This paper draws on research which began in 2006 with students in a graduate course on rural education. Its purpose was to find out what graduate students saw as current issues of rural education, how that compared to the literature, and what they thought supporting agencies such as government and universities needed to be doing to…

Eleven of the schools in this Teacher Corps program are on the Navajo Reservation and one on the Hopi. Corps members provided individualized instruction and introduced several new teaching methods to make the instruction more relevant to the children's culture. These methods have now been adopted by the regular teaching staff. Corps members also…

Discusses India's National Adult Education Programme (NAEP), which was assigned the task of developing adult education materials. Details steps taken to develop these materials and to train administrators and teachers. (JOW)

This bibliography on meeting the special needs of various groups cites 69 documents acquired and processed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education from July 1968 to December 1969. Following are the subheadings within the bibliography (number of citations in parentheses): Rural and Migrant People (26); Intergroup Education (11); Gifted…

This report found that Corps members enabled the schools to give more individualized instruction, provide expanded classroom and extracurricular activities, and improve the ratio of students to teachers. Corps members introduced English as a second language, and science and algebra taught in Spanish. School officials and teachers believed that the…

Schools of education must refine factual and theoretical information to the point where it is applicable to specific problems. (NQ)

Rural schools, 68.8% of Russia's elementary-secondary schools, have been seriously affected by economic crises. Rural teachers require understanding of the rural context, knowledge of the local setting, and the ability to raise students' awareness of the rural environment. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

As part of her Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education course, Anne Maree Lonsdale was asked to imagine how issues the Social Contexts of Secondary Education class was reading about and discussing impact upon the work of teachers. To that end, students were asked to think deeply about one of the topics addressed in the semester, and to frame a…

A select bibliography on education for rural life is presented in this book. Except for a few cases, materials were chosen from those published in 1965 and later. Major topics are rural education policies, planning, and economics; organizational and curricular aspects of primary schools, secondary schools, higher agricultural education, adult…

Discusses problems confronting universal rural education in the secondary grades including a lack of resources, inadequate numbers of schools, limited instructional materials, and teachers with specialized training for rural education programs. (MB)

The strengths and weaknesses of radio for distance learning in the Third World are determined through an examination of its use for upgrading teachers, to support education and development broadly, for mass education through radio campaigns, and through the radio schools of Latin America. Eighteen references are listed. (CHC)

The paper describes the background and implementation of the University of New Hampshire's program to train masters level early childhood special educators for rural and urban settings. The program features child development theory, methods of assessment and teaching, and collaboration with parents and other professionals. Ecological perspectives…