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This selection of the papers presented at a conference includes 6 introductory papers, 32 papers dealing with innovations and experiences in the authors' own countries, and reports from 6 working groups. These working groups addressed the six key topic areas of the conference: (1) relationships between new technologies and labor relations and their impact on the labor market, education, and schooling; (2) new technologies in the learning process; (3) technology's impact on relationships between general education and education for careers; (4) technological demands upon recurrent education, adult education, and non-formal education; (5) technological developments and their impact on education in the Third World; and (6) the impact of technological developments on both initial and inservice teacher education and training. The majority of the papers are in English, although six are in French and one is in German. (RP)

Major themes of a workshop on social work education and practice in rural and northern areas of Canada held in 1976 were: (1) purposes and goals of social work education; (2) needs, wants, and aspirations of rural/northern people; (3) social work education for professional competence; (4) continuing education; and (5) organization and administration of social work programs. This bilingual report (English-French) is in three parts: summary of workshop discussion, summary of social work programs in more than 10 Canadian schools, and resources and bibliography. Discussion included the need for teaching materials which would bring rural Canadian life into perspective, curriculum, accessibility to higher education, rural field placements, alternative delivery systems (part-time study, decentralization, use of media for communication), course content, teaching methodologies, skills students need, and differences in urban and rural social work. The resources section contains a partly annotated list of periodicals and newsletters, Canadian newspapers, research, resource, and information centers, "American" and "International" resources, organizations and associations, study kits, nonprint resources, bibliographies, libraries, catalogues, rural and ethnic cookbooks, and conferences. In the partly annotated bibliography are publications and films relating to rural development. (RS)