According to classical elite theory, increased circulation is related to increased integration which is thought to increase elites' power. Based on a comparative analysis of some European countries' elite education systems, recruitment to elite positions and degrees of circulation--with a specific focus on administrative elites--this article…

Recommendations of the Pilkington Committee in its first report on the use of technical college resources were intended to secure the rational and more economic production of qualified personnel through further education examination courses. Unfortunately, the objectives of adult education do not offer such simple isolation or definition and are…

The author begins by criticizing the existing system of nonvocational adult education in England and Wales, then considers the theoretical framework within which a new system should be constructed, and suggests some of the consequences that might follow, especially for universities. In particular, he recommends that universities maintain and…

Science is now unchallengeable as part of the pattern of school studies, although it is not at all clear what the precise justifications for its position are, or how profound a relationship with it is considered desirable once children have made the curriculum choices. Promotes science for liberal study. (Author/JK)

Historians of English higher education usually consider the "improvement" of the nineteenth century university relative to social-political evolution. This biographic review of William Whewell gives consideration to the intellectual framework of the reactionary side that favored liberal education. (JH)

The Nuffield Secondary Science Project is concerned with teaching science as a significant human activity to boys and girls. This project involves no course as such but rather material from which teachers can select. The approach is interdisciplinary and the framework consists of eight broad themes to be covered over a 3-year period. (JK)

Explains, compares, and critiques the theories of knowledge offered by P. H. Hirst(1974) and S. Korner (1970). Concludes that the structure of knowledge presented in these theories provides valuable support for the goals of liberal education. (JDH)

Questions concerning whether physicists are socially responsible as professional physicists, citizens, and teachers are discussed. It is felt that science curricula must include social applications of science and general studies in schools must include more science. (DF)

The author argues that there are two strands of liberal education diametrically opposed to each other in key respects: whereas one is concerned with education for the dominant classes, the other is linked to the notion of an equal society. He states that institutions valuing the latter tradition must reassert its importance. A case study is…

The author attempts to construct a conceptual map of prevocationalism in order to facilitate practical exploration. He aims to outline some of the contexts within which prevocationalism is embedded and present a clear delineation of the concept. (CH)

Discusses the structure of art history education in elementary and secondary schools and the need for alternative teaching approaches to meet the goals of British general education. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW England. (AM)

The "utopian" area of liberal adult education is being attacked in Great Britain as an expensive service. Two reasons are (1) the weakness of the 1944 Education Act in clearly laying upon local authorities the statutory duty of providing adult education and (2) the blurring of the distinction between vocational and non-vocational…