The authors focus on that aspect of continuing education which follows the continuous period of formal study before entering main employment. They maintain that such education should not draw artificial boundaries between education and training, between vocational and general education, or between formal and informal systems of provision or…

Critiquing Wilson's and Cowell's article, "The Democratic Myth" (v17 p111-17), the author argues that there is a substantial body of knowledge on the idea of democracy outside educational philosophy, and that from that body of knowledge one can derive conclusions about attainment and performances appropriate for a democratic populace. (RM)

Identifies and explicates two basic principles of mastery teaching, then shows how an understanding of the principles can be used to provide answers to the major criticisms of mastery teaching. (FL)

How educational philosophers have explained, justified, and defined their field is discussed. Four periods are examined: the comparative period, 1942-1953; the transitional period, 1954-1957; the analytic period, 1958-1967; and the prospective period, 1968-1982. (RM)

Although a recent conference in Neusiedl-am-See, Austria, and others like it have encouraged the development through national education systems of an awareness of European cultural identity and "active cooperation and communication among Europeans," the realization of such a project remains largely to be accomplished. (JBM)

This paper briefly traces the history of 4-H youth development programs, explains what youth development is, and shows how the experiential learning model is used in 4-H. Begun over 75 years ago as a means of extending the learning of the land-grant university to rural youth, 4-H is part of the Cooperative Extension Service. The curriculum…

This reference book charts the influence of philosophical ideas that have had the greatest influence on education from ancient Greece to the present. The book covers such classical thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Hypatia, Locke, and Rousseau, as well as such recent figures as Montessori, Heidegger, Du Bois, and Dewey. The encyclopedia consists of…

This book is intended to provide college administrators, faculty, and researchers with a guide to resources concerned with assessment at the postsecondary level. After a foreword by Margaret A. Miller, president of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), an introduction by Barbara L. Cambridge examines the different ways that current…

Hypothesizing that metaphoric portrayals of students as consumers/customers should cause consternation, this paper constitutes a pragmatic examination of metaphor and focuses on how the choice of metaphors implicates policies and practices. It begins by tracing the philosophical development of the description of students as consumers/customers,…

This paper examines factors that have influenced education in the United States. It focuses on the crisis of confidence as American schools struggle between two competing "philosophies" of education: the traditional and the progressive. The paper outlines the tension created by youthful rebelliousness and the conservatism of elders and…

Article examined the role of the community college in developing community services. (RK)

Discusses ways to accelerate and to share exploration of sound new ways to achieve the development of the individual's sense of worth, especially in the elementary school. (GB)

Article focuses on the exasperating experience faculty members face in attempting to fill out job placement forms for their students. It further stresses a need for a unified and defensible teacher training program. (Author/RK)

Part Two of a three part report on the author's visit to the Peoples' Republic of China. (RY)

Author discusses the 12 basic and rather fundamental principles underlying newer teaching accountability concepts. (Author/MB)