Describes the "Packaging Useful to Schools Campaign," a one year experiment in providing free instructional materials to primary schools in Portugal. Materials such as maps, clock faces, detachable letters, rulers, protractors, and compass cards were printed by manufacturers on their packaging materials and were later recycled to…

The authors maintain that an interdisciplinary approach to health and science education can encourage dialogue between citizens, government, and the scientific community. They describe the Elementary Science Study (ESS) curriculum, which integrates health and science education through classroom experimentation. (Author/DS)

The relative effectiveness of two methods of instruction, orally-presented lessons and a written version of those lessons, was investigated using a post-test, an attitude scale, and time taken for instruction as criteria. (Author/RK)

The locus of control of subjects may be the confounding variable affecting the acceptance of motivational cues in intentional-incidental (INT-INC) learning studies, and thus the reason for conflicting results in "funneling effect" (leaning toward intentional learning as a function of motivation) experiments. 96 female college students selected for…

Abt Associates, the firm responsible for the primary analysis of the Follow Through experiment, summarize the findings. Their clearest finding indicates that local circumstances, attitudes, and activities unmeasured by evaluation have much more to do with the effectiveness of Follow Through models, without exception, than do their theoretical…

This paper is about an education experiment, the sponsorship and coordination of a series of workshops for teachers by an organization of teaching anthropologists. We plan to discuss the impetus for the formation of such a series of workshops, and then describe and evaluate them. (Author/JM)

A program to increase and encourage literacy in Tanzania is described: traditional stories were related by tribal elders, tape recorded, translated into the national language, printed, and distributed to individuals just learning to read. Cultural relevance of the stories should promote interest in continued reading. (AV)

The author reviews an adult literacy training program designed to go beyond status quo maintenance and to develop productive critical consciousness in individuals. Objectives, structure, personnel, and implementation details are discussed. (AV)

Describes Dolci's most recent project, an experimental school for children of the peasant community in Partinico, in western Sicily. In no other place in Italy is public education available to children on a full-time basis. (Author/AM)

A reinforcement schedule and spatial titration method were used to determine task-reinforcement area separation most preferred and effective in two third-grade boys. Errors in task performance decreased task-reinforcement area separation, while correct responses in task performance increased task-reinforcement area separation. (Author)

An attempt to impose Western values on Japan through the education system after World War II had no lasting success after the withdrawal of western occupation troops. (JD)

The Suvag Lingua is a machine used to facilitate better aural perception by working from a student's error in producing a particular sound and adapting the model which is to be imitated. (DD)

The main purpose of the project described in this article was to give young people an opportunity to live out and identify with an adult role, that of a teacher in a primary school being taken as one example. (Author)

The basic question of the research reported here was whether or not expectancy, as defined here, was a significant factor in relationship to dissonant teacher support characteristics in affecting performance on given assignments. (Author)