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van Es, J. C.; Schneider, Judy B. – 1981
The Logan County (Illinois) Community Resource Development Council, assisted by sociologists and graduate students from the University of Illinois, designed an attitudinal survey which was administered in 1980 to 324 graduating seniors from 3 Logan County high schools to determine why students were leaving the county after graduation and what…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitude Measures, College Bound Students, Community Satisfaction
Abeille, Barbara – 1979
A 3-month pilot study conducted from April-June 1979 with 16 major informants provides information for constructing a preliminary model of female life in Mauritania. An introduction gives definitions for terms used differently in Mauritania (tribe, ethnic group, and class) and discusses examples of each. The study (based mainly on repeated…
Descriptors: Change, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Economic Development
PDF pending restorationSmale, Melinda – 1980
In order to indicate potential income-generating programs for women, 67 women in the river region and selected sites in the Assaba and the Guidimakha were interviewed in 1980 to illuminate effects of the 1970s-80s drought and male migration on Mauritanian women. Hypotheses were based on the drought causing unprecedented disruption to Mauritanian…
Descriptors: Caste, Change, Decision Making, Developing Nations
Download full textNational Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Council on Vocational Education believes that the new Vocational Education Act should focus on the development of the human capital that is essential to any efforts to revitalize our nation's productivity. This will require program improvement for training and retraining in new high-technology occupations, access to programs by…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Correctional Education, Demand Occupations, Disabilities
Haupt, Roy C.; Schmidt, Frederick E. – 1980
Vermont, the most rural state in the northeastern United States, can represent that area for consideration of the problems of rural vocational education. Nearly 21% of Vermont's work-aged population has vocational training. More than half of all high school juniors and seniors now enroll in vocational education programs, and new adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Delivery Systems, Demand Occupations, Demography
Jose, Cecil T. – 1981
The study examines the nature of cross-cultural differences in value-attitude factors of achievement motivation between the Anglo American and Amerindian. Based on other research findings that high achievement motivation tends to correlate with high economic development, the rationale for this study is the documented need for optimal economic…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature
Isenman, Paul; And Others – 1980
The report, third in a series of annual publications, examines some of the difficulties and prospects in areas of social and economic progress and human development which developing countries face during the next decade. Distinguishing oil-importing from oil-exporting developing countries, the first part of the report presents global and regional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Birth Rate, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Myers, Dwain – 1978
This booklet identifies 14 basic economic concepts that have been selected for emphasis in junior high social studies classes in Nebraska. The booklet is accompanied by a series of related instructional units (see SO 011 416). In this booklet, the concepts are listed in a sequence from the simplest to the most complex, with concepts one through…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Concept Teaching, Conceptual Schemes, Consumer Education
Wortman, Sterling – 1976
Dimensions of the deteriorating world food situation are examined. Prepared for the congressional Subcommittee on Science Research and Technology and the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning and Analysis, the document focuses on the need to improve living standards of the rural poor in developing nations. The document is…
Descriptors: Agricultural Skills, Agricultural Trends, Conceptual Schemes, Cooperation
Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC. – 1978
This report inventories the U.S. federal government's current expenditures of resources for international health and considers ways of better resource utilization and coordination. Presented in eight chapters, the report considers three major issues: (1) how governmental and multilateral development strategies could be reoriented to affect health,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Economic Development, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Fazio, Ernest J., Jr.; Jones, Sally Jo, Ed. – 1980
To guide Indian reservation program planners, the handbook highlights three exemplary community-based data collection efforts undertaken by Native American Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grantees to improve their planning and program development activities. Exemplary data collection activities reported include the Spokane…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Alaska Natives, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Miller, Lorna M., Ed. – 1980
This comprehensive volume of innovative continuing education programs contains complete descriptions of some 750 cross-indexed projects in four general areas--human resource development, natural resource development, economic development, and community development--directed at community problems that can benefit from adult education. It brings…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Citizen Participation
MARQUARDT, WILLIAM F. – 1967
A REVIEW OF RESEARCH CATEGORIZES LITERACY AND ADULT BASIC EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA AS FOLLOWS--(1) GENERAL REPORTS OF THE NUMBERS AND OCCUPATIONAL TYPES OF ILLITERATES IN EACH COUNTRY--(2) REPORTS OF THE ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND GROUPS IN PROMOTING LITERACY AND ADULT BASIC…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Applied Linguistics, Behavior Patterns
LYONS, RAYMOND F. – 1965
THIS PUBLICATION IS THE PRODUCT OF A FIVE-WEEK SEMINAR HELD IN 1964. THIS SEMINAR, WHICH BROUGHT TOGETHER OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS AS WELL AS KEY FIGURES OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, CONSIDERED EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AS A MEANS OF ADVANCING EDUCATION AND OF LINKING EDUCATION MORE EFFECTIVELY TO OVER-ALL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Conference Reports
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1980
This issue contains a regional review, discussion of technical and vocational education in countries of Asia and Oceania, articles dealing with various aspects of technical and vocational education, and a bibliographical supplement. The brief statistical review in section 1 concerns second-level technical and vocational education in the developing…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Developed Nations
