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This report is concerned with the development of population education in Asian countries through the assistance of UNESCO. It includes guidelines and goals for a comprehensive population education program feasible for most Asian nations. Included in the program goals are the development and implementation of educational programs at all grade levels for the children, youth, and adults, both in and out of schools; the training of teaching personnel through the universities; and the alerting of leadership personnel to the limitations imposed by population growth on attaining these educational objectives. Stressed throughout the report is the importance of educating individuals with an intelligent understanding of population issues and with a responsible awareness of their implications for social and human resource development. (MA)

Management needs in Southeast Asia are the focal points of a workshop held in Penang, March 1972, by the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development. Following the opening statement concerning these needs, the discussions at the workshop and a background paper, "Developing Management Competence," are presented. (MJM)

This report examines what people in the developing countries think about population policy--a topic that is emerging as a subject of critical concern to governments of those countries. In 1973, five seminars were held in different parts of the developing world. Each seminar was limited to 20-25 participants selected from five to nine countries. The participants received a set of questions which focused on four topics concerning population: (1) Population Problems, (2) Population Policies or Responses and Their Effects, (3) Policy Administration: Actors and Constituent Groups, and (4) Policy Options. The participants were asked to write a brief memorandom in response to the questions. The memorandum was to serve as a common point of departure for discussion and to prepare the participants to examine population policy in a broad context. All five seminars followed an agenda based on the questions. At the end of each seminar, participants were asked to complete an evaluation questionnaire. Most participants said that they had gained a broader understanding of population policy. This book contains an introduction, the results of the five seminars: South Asia Seminar, Middle East Seminar, Latin America-Commonwealth Caribbean Seminar, Africa Seminar, and Southeast Asia Seminar, a summary, and committee reflections. (TK)

If the path to a better rural life is to be a change preferred by the rural people involved, recent world experience would suggest that it must be a change born from within the given rural social system, be controlled by its beneficiaries, and be integrated into the larger system of which it is a part. Such a perspective and such a process might be labeled "rural renaissance", for as perspective, it gives priority to the view of the farming family, and as process, it draws initiative and energy from that same family. Rural renaissance, then, may be defined as the marriage between traditional patterns (values, norms, technologies, and behavior) and those innovative patterns which result in the birth of change. Since values and beliefs vary from one social system to another, interaction between a rural renaissance stimulation system (outsiders) and a rural renaissance acquisition system (insiders) should facilitate positive change, if consideration is given by both outsiders and insiders to questions of appropriate organization, doctrine, leadership, programs, resources, and linkage systems. The larger rural renaissance stimulation system, then, would be a world wide network of interacting people who are able to learn from each other in the universal quest for improvement of the human condition. (JC)

The role of universities in management education for national development in Southeast Asia was the focus of two workshops held in Singapore. Proceedings of these workshops are categorized according to applications of business management skills and techniques in government and business; desirable attributes of a manager/development administrator; curricula implications in management education for present and future needs; issues and problems in the provision of continuing education for developing management needs; and developing management competence. (MJM)

The Asian Regional Seminar on Polyvalent Adult Education Centers, held during September, 1971 in Bombay, was attended by individuals representing United Nations agencies, Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Phillippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand. Seminar objectives included evaluating the Bombay Polyvalent Adult Education Center and examining the possibilities of using the Bombay experience in other Asian countries. A general report provides conference information and presents synopses of two papers regarding adult education centers in Yugoslavia and France: agenda paper number one, Polyvalent Adult Education Center: Structure and Organization--Indian Experience and its Evaluation; and agenda paper number two, Concept of Polyvalent Adult Education. Main seminar conclusions and recommendations are outlined by objective. Taking up over half of the document, appended material lists participants and presents summary texts of the following: two addresses to the inaugural session of the seminar; six messages sent to the seminar from around the world; agenda paper number one; "The Shramik Vidyapeeth: An Evaluative Study of Polyvalent Centre"; and agenda paper number two. (LH)

The proceedings of a workshop on the growth of Southeast Asian universities emphasize the problems attendant to this growth; for example, expansion versus consolidation of higher education, and mass versus selective higher education. Papers concerned with university growth focus on various countries: Indonesia, Khmer Republic, Laos, Vietnam, Malasia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. (MJM)

A workshop to develop a program for training primary school teachers was convened in 1969 by the Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) in Penang, Malaysia. Countries participating in the conference were Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Vietnam, Thailand, Phillipines, and Ceylon; consultants from the United States and Britain were also in attendance. The major outcome of the conference was a detailed description of a course designed to improve teachers' understanding of the new content and approach to teaching primary mathematics. The course was also intended to examine philosophical, pedagogical and methodological issues related to instruction, and to prepare key personnel from participating countries to organize programs in their home states. In addition to an outline of this course, this volume includes several working papers and documents related to the overall goals and projects of RECSAM. (SD)