This paper explores and reflects on the outcomes of the application of two different pedagogic models at two Higher Education institutions in the UK, University Centre at Blackburn College and the University of Lincoln. Through a set of collaborative 'conversations' the experiences of the pedagogic practices -- from a sample of participating…

There is considerable concern today about sustaining home economics/family and consumer sciences studies (HE/FCS) in a political and economic climate where support for programs is diminishing. This paper proposes that HE/FCS educators and scholars look to the past in seeking directions for the future. In particular, it draws from the work of Alice…

John Henry Newman was one of the most outstanding figures of the social and religious panorama in the nineteenth century in Great Britain. His educational approaches framed in the movement of Catholic education and his influence on the Oxford Movement, his intellectualism and reflections on faith, reason and education, and participation and…

This study gathers long term data on the counter culture and the dominant culture cross nationally and uses this data to determine whether changes of any magnitude have occurred in either cultural variant in recent years. (Author/AM)

The third and final article in a series discusses the civil service, the industrial training boards, and training as an agent of organizational change. (MF)

A discussion of the relationship of the British Council and educational television. (HB)

A study was conducted to determine the role played by media use diversity in shaping public opinion during the 1979 campaign to elect a representative from Great Britain to the European Parliament. The study focused on the British audience's evaluation of the clarity of the campaign issues as presented in the media and on individual cognitions…

Indicates the existence of a new field of research that appears to have exceptional possibilities for application to educational problems and to be startlingly integrative in its implications, making it possible to perceive educational institutions as unified learning systems in which management and teaching/learning styles are fundamentally…

This article explicates ARION, which is part of the package of European funding programs that facilitate participation in study visits on a range of educational themes. The visits are designed to assist educational leaders in reviewing and modifying their own work as a result of experiencing educational structures outside their own country. (five…

Examines changes in competence-based training. Competence is defined as the ability to perform actions within an occupation, and the main form of assessment of such competence is observation of performance in the workplace. This industrial model is now to be applied to education, and those teachers who supervise new entrants to the profession will…

Informatization is a term of Japanese provenance denoting major systemic change from the application of information technology. Proposes a theory of post-war informatization focusing on information services in libraries, specifically computerized information retrieval. Describes four electronic epochs: offline, online, CD-ROM, and Internet, and…

Industrial involvement in school management training programs has been characterized by increasing cooperation. This report of management development programs for head teachers describes the successful types of collaboration between education and industry and applies those experiences to future training programs. Interviews with participants in 10…

A discussion of the role of television as a change agent in implementing a new compulsory attendance law in Great Britain. (HB)

Contrasts historical cases in Western countries concerning the idea that ordinary rural primary school teachers can play an important role as "animateurs"--leaders in rural development activities. Reveals no historical evidence to support the idea that teachers can stimulate rural development. (AH)

Discusses the educational reconstruction movement in Great Britain during and after World War I. Describes the divergent views on reform held by leaders and the effects of those differences on the reconstruction plans they developed. Follows the development of a consensus through council reports and committee writings. (DK)