This article argues that students are not receiving a high quality social studies education and are not being prepared for citizenship in a democracy; that the most serious failings of social studies courses are conceptual, philosophical, and ideological, and that what social studies experts want students to learn is not what parents and other…

Small schools (with enrollments of 300 or less) are being rediscovered as models for effective schools. Currently 26.9% of America's school systems enroll over 500,000 students in more than 26,000 small schools staffed by 50,000 teachers. Small schools have pioneered many educational "innovations": non-graded classrooms, individualized…

In the first of this presentation's two parts, an attempt is made to clarify the meaning of constructivist education, an approach based on a theory which explains learning as a process of construction from within the individual, rather than one of internalization or absorption from the environment. In the second part, a personal view of why…

Developed as an EPDA (Educational Professions Development Act) inservice training activity, the conference discussed in this report was designed to primarily determine those basic beliefs, principles, and concepts of vocational education subscribed to by region V conference participants, and secondly to discuss the relationship of policymaking to…

Condensed from "Internships in Teacher Education, the 47th Yearbook of The Association for Student Teaching, NEA, Washington, D.C., 1968, 1-15.

School administrators can get a better idea of what their purpose is by examining, first, what schools achieve; second, how schools function; and, third, why they function. A school's production function (what it achieves) involves many specific functions, but they all are a product of the relationship between school inputs and outputs. Inputs…

An individualized instructional development training program was developed that allows teachers to enter at several points and move through the instruction in a way that suits their own particular needs and challenges. The program was designed for implementation on the TICCIT computer controlled television system, although it could be adapted to…

The New York State industrial arts education bulletin outlines four purposes, four principles, five program characteristics, five grade levels of the program's scope, six steps for designing a program, two instructional objectives, five instructional methods, and five organizations serving the industrial arts education needs of the State. (BP)

This paper presents the conceptual basis for a research study of thirty-seven societies to investigate the educational function of initiation ceremonies and secret societies. "Hidden curriculum" is the term chosen for the precepts passed on within certain cultural institutions of a society. The author hypothesizes that in a tribal society, the…

The response to 20 attitudinal items on the University of New Mexico Educational Foundations "Education Scale" by 149 UNM students were used as the basis for a factor analysis. The analysis yielded five rotated factors. The factors were difficult to interpret and the analysis did not lend any support to the a priori grouping and judgements of…

This essay undertakes to develop a perspective from which education as a research area can be more clearly perceived and more meaningfully comprehended. It attempts to do so by locating the study of education within the larger context of the study of man and of society. In the study of man and society, three major sectors of research are…

The problem has always been making educational theory relevant to practice. University education instruction isolates the problems from the practice. This study is based on the notion that the community rather than schools is the context for designing a teacher preparation curriculum. In this framework students of education are viewed as "human…

This paper proposes a schema that will provide the analytical clarity needed for generating insights into pedagogical issues and, consequently, for developing curriculum efficiently. The schema has four terms: learning assumption, instructional hypothesis, teaching technique, and teacher performance. A learning assumption postulates that an…

Considers the notion that "standards" of English instruction and literacy are declining to be a false diagnosis. Offers evidence to refute such a "decline theory." (RL)

Describes the educational reform of a developing socialist nation in Africa. Outlines the educational principles, policies, and practices which are aimed at the socialization of the child in order to integrate him into his community while equipping him with the practical and intellectual means of transforming it. (Author/JK)