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Miklos, Erwin – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
Developments in the content, growth, differentiation, and theory-practice relationships of preparation programs over the last three decades are described. Proposals for improving the knowledge on which programs are based, instructional methods, and application of concepts to practice have changed preparatory programs, but basic issues still demand…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Scott, Mary E. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1992
Explores the historical development of mentoring and several current critical issues in mentoring: purpose and process, characteristics of mentors, the establishment and duration of mentoring relationships, and mentoring for women and minorities. Notes that personnel in academic settings need to consider these issues when implementing a mentoring…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Higher Education, History

Gibson, G. G. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1986
This article seeks to investigate a religious personality--Frederick Denison Maurice--with particular reference to his Principalship of the Working Men's College. The article analyzes Maurice's intellectual personality, insofar as it elucidates his contribution to education. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Biographies, Cooperation, Educational History, Educational Philosophy

Tom, Alan R. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1988
This article proposes rules of thumb about the teacher education design process. The rules are grounded in the attempts at reforming teacher education at Washington University in the early 1970s, at a time during which a year-long, field-based alternative to the traditional elementary program was operated. (IAH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Models
Mayer, Victor J.; Fortner, Rosanne W. – 1987
In 1975, the Columbus Council of the Navy League of the United States provided a grant to The Ohio State University in support of a state survey to determine the level of understanding of marine information among the public school children of Ohio. In addition, it supported a summer workshop in the Humanities of the Seas conducted for teachers in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Marine Education, Program Content, Program Descriptions
Rothman, Mitchell Lewis – 1980
The early development of university legal education in England, the United States, and Germany is examined. Focus is on: (1) the different historical and social processes that have brought law and higher education together and (2) examination of a more general, comparative nature about the institutional transformation of legal education in these…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational History
Summers, Susan Robinson – 1990
Since 1947, Lake City Community College (LCCC) has evolved from a forest ranger school to a junior college to a true community college. After World War II, Lake City, the "Forestry Capitol of the World," converted a local air base into the Columbia Forestry School (CFS). The first few years were characterized by extremely low enrollment and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational History, Forestry
Bishop, F. L. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Engineering schools in common with other educational institutions have been confronted with many unique problems since the outbreak of the European War in 1914. Previous to that time, an increasing number of men who entered colleges and universities elected subjects pertaining to commerce, business management, finances, etc. During the same…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Males

Cummings, Richard J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1986
An examination of the different ways in which the honors concept has been adapted from its elitist British university origins and of the assumptions underlying those adaptations reveals both the virtues and the problems inherent in the Americanization of honors. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Education
Swiggett, Glen Levin, Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
The articles contained in this bulletin on foreign service training were assembled nearly three years ago. They were contributed by specialists, and deal with subjects which should be included in a fully developed major on foreign-service training for Government, business, social welfare, etc. These articles include, in addition to brief…
Descriptors: Textbooks, International Relations, Business Education, Program Design
Reck, U. Mae – 1992
This paper addresses the basic critical elements of teacher education reform and describes a rigorous university teacher education professional school and program which not only prepares future teachers in academics, pedagogy, and technology, but also prepares them to become productive participants in a changing society. The paper argues that the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Change Agents, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation
Hill, Amie; Herman, Richard – 1998
Based on structured interviews with Interlocken students, staff, parents, and alumni, this book presents a historical account of the international coeducational camp, Interlocken, founded in 1961, and its practice and philosophy of experiential education. Section 1 explains the innovative summer-camp/youth-travel mission of Interlocken and its…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Cultural Exchange, Experiential Learning
Viles, N. E. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
School fires endanger pupils' lives and take annually a heavy toll in school property losses. If not controlled, these potentials may be changed quickly into serious losses. School officials, teachers, parents, and the public have an interest in school fire safety. Because of other interests and a lack of assigned responsibility in this area fire…
Descriptors: Educational History, Fire Protection, School Safety, School Administration