Examines the use of "directed ethnography," a collaborative ethnographic approach, found to improve the work of Ladino teachers in rural Yucatan community schools. The participating teachers analyze the collected community data and modify their teaching style/curriculum materials to reflect the experience of their Maya Grade 3 students.…

Describes Learn Alaska, an electronic educational system run jointly by the University of Alaska and the state Department of Education. Explains use of teleconferencing, videotex, teletext, and software teledelivery. (JM)

Traces the historical development of environmental education in England, indicating the changes that have occurred in program emphases and implementation patterns since the early 1960s. Lists the values associated with teaching environmentally. (ML)

The Women's Institutes of Great Britain and Canada have for many years been important providers of education for rural women. The author shows how the scope of this educational work has come to extend beyond rural and domestic crafts to encompass the changing needs and roles of women. (Author/CT)

Thirty-six Indiana directors of special education indicate that heavy caseloads and limited special education service delivery options are the most critical problems of rural school psychologists. The article discusses procedures which may be utilized to circumvent or overcome these problems. (NEC)

Factors affecting the resources and service delivery in rural schools center on financial aspects (including high transportation costs and lower eligibility for vocational education funds) and human factors (such as smaller district size and lower population density and fewer and less varied occupational alternatives). Recommendations are offered…

Gifted eighth graders in a rural district participated in a program addressing their needs for stimulating educational experience and the needs of institutionalized elderly people for psychosocial stimulation. The project's successes and problems are described within the framework of the developmental stages of groups. (Author/CL)

Discusses the universal school: its expansion, whether it has meant progress, and some alleged failures of universal education. The author concludes that it has been generally successful in realizing the purposes that control it, but that it can be used to further aims that many people believe to be reactionary or evil or both. (CT)

The current status of rural, minority women is outlined. These womens' educational status is discussed, and recommendations are made for implementing change through educational programs. (JMK)

Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of rural education and calls for the establishment of a rural education network that would disseminate information about exemplary programs dealing with problems unique to rural schools. (FL)

Reports results of a 1977-78 survey of administrators in 122 Tennessee school districts to determine psychological services available, immediate and future manpower needs, positions available, and appropriate training. Notes that most districts both provided and need more services and that psychological service differed in rural and urban…

Designed to provide online resources for upper secondary students studying for the Higher School certificate (HSC), the NSW HSC Online Project aims to make quality resources easily accessible to rural and regional users in New South Wales (Australia). The project is a collaborative venture of Charles Sturt University and the New South Wales…

This paper discusses anti-intellectualism in the United States from a rural viewpoint, defines "ideology," and questions whether the psychology of gifted education is an ideology. Fear and loathing of intellectuals are identified with the working class, a view that distorts the role of intellectuals. A rural view of anti-intellectualism…

Among the many outside influences on Appalachian culture in the late 19th-early 20th centuries were reformers and educators, many of them women who came to the mountains to work as teachers, settlement workers, and nurses. This paper focuses on settlement schools in eastern Kentucky as the locus of interaction between reformers and mountain women.…