Responsibility Education is a concept designed to restructure and redefine schooling and education to emphasize those attitudes, dispositions, and habits that lead to the development of a sense of responsibility within each individual and the knowledge, skills, judgments, standards and commitments needed by an individual to act responsibly.…

Few sociologists and fewer educators have recognized Emile Durkheim's significant contribution to the sociology of education. His major theories of education are discussed under three main groupings--education developing as a social process, education's function in the socialization of the young, and education in the development of morality.…

Suggests that the principal must develop the leadership style of a facilitator to allow each teacher to reach an optimal level of efficiency. (Editor/RK)

The author, head of a special school in England, who has just spent a year looking at the American system of handling handicapped students in the classroom, concludes that the present one in Britain is wrong for teachers, parents and children. (Editor/RK)

Suggests that from 1972-1974 there was little change in the representation of women as authorative voice-overs or as on-screen experts in television commercials without voice-overs. (MH)

Debate is compared to modern poetry in its tension between content and form. From the perspective of this comparison, debate is defended against charges that it is unnecessarily structured, a distortion of normative language use, uncommunicative, and pertinent only to an esoteric group of listeners. (JF)

Argues that virtues be taught in moral education as motivational concepts of a distinctively moral kind. Believes that this process will link mind, heart and will thereby bind together reason, emotion and action in concrete compartments of behavior. (Author/R K)

The function of the science teacher is to teach science and not to intrude on religion especially when concerned with the creation-evolution issue. The teacher can stress that science and religion are parallel but different approaches to understanding the world. The student decides from there. (Author/MA)

Summarizes and justifies a variety of research activities aimed toward expanding programs of art education. (RK)

The noted consumer advocate states that teachers and parents must lead in the fight to defeat complacency in the public's attitudes toward education. Consumer advocacy has a place in the classroom and on the agendas of parent-teacher meetings. (Editor/RK)

Considers some dangers associated with the back to basics movement currently sweeping the country. Emphasizes the need to teach all basic subjects such as science, foreign languages and the arts. As well it is important to avoid back to basics within basic subjects since this policy would avoid the broader aspects of each subject. (RK)

Argues against the automatic inclusion of homework as part of each student's educational responsibility. States that young people want--and have a "right"--to have time to reflect and to think about what they are doing, to be relieved of school pressures, to have time to do what they want, to do independent work of their choosing, and to obtain…

Contends that investigation of the past may contribute to a generic understanding of labor rhetoric and examines the rhetorical dimensions of the 1972 election contest for the leadership of the United Mine Workers. (MH)

In his article (EJ 149 548) W. A. Hart criticizes the author's concept of teaching suggesting that he has the wrong kind of interest in teaching and has lost his touch with teaching. Here Marshall replys by stating that his intention was "to show what teaching was not" and that he had deliberately made no positive conception of teaching.…

Inquires whether it is feasible, useful and profitable to conceive moral education through the teaching of virtues. Considers some problems involved in presenting virtues. (Author/RK)