This book presents two dominant and rival conceptions of quality in higher education. One is based on the expression of the tacit conceptions of value and propriety in the academic community. It is the character and quality of the continuing interactions of higher education's members that are at issue rather than any endpoint or definitive…

This report outlines 10 multicultural principles for Head Start preschool programs and ancillary services. It asserts that Head Start programming should: (1) treat every child as an individual; (2) represent the cultural groups in the community; (3) emphasize accurate information about cultural groups and discard stereotypes; (4) address cultural…

This report outlines a framework of widely accepted ideas about student learning. It describes the implications arising from good instruction and good local education support systems. It presents seven major points, beginning with the fact that all children can learn but their instruction in school largely determines what, how, and how much they…

In this seventh and final State of American Education Address, Secretary Richard W. Riley discussed the progress that has been made in education since his first address and challenged schools and communities to renew their commitment toward ensuring that all students achieve their fullest potential in the 21st century. Highlights include: "the…

This study verified the educational value orientations of junior and senior undergraduate preservice teachers and their professors of education in one teacher education program. The study used the Value Orientation Inventory (VOI), which includes five competing educational value orientations: Disciplinary Mastery Orientation (DMO), Learning…

This digest summarizes the issues involved in the instruction of college students with learning disabilities and offers a practical approach to teaching these students. It notes first that disability law at the college level is not as prescriptive as that for the elementary secondary level. Since the instructional climate in higher education is…

This paper looks at challenges that face the epistemological model on which formal education is based as a result of the rapid growth in use of new communications and information technologies (CITs). The argument has three parts. The first describes some phenomena associated with the development during recent decades of these new CITs and their…

This monograph on teaching students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD) is divided into two parts, one that offers historical perspectives and one that looks at future directions. Following an introduction, individual sections of Part 1 address the following topics: (1) a brief history of special education for E/BD students; (2) key…

Experiential learning as a field of practice is vast. This paper uses the metaphor of a tree to categorize experiential learning's variety, the roots being the underpinning theoretical traditions and the branches the various forms of practice. The place of experience is highly valued in three traditions of adult education: the progressive,…

A general essay on the difference between "education" and "training" as the author specifies why the use of behavioral objectives must be kept in perspective. (HB)

Article considers the merits of the writing of one professor H. H. Milman, who stated the theoretical solution to the basic problem posed by the religious question in England in the mid-nineteenth century, that is, the need for state schools. (Author/RK)

After the defeat by Napoleon, Prussia endeavored to rebuild its war torn country by instituting sweeping social and educational reforms. This effort marked one of the few instances in which philosophical anthropology formed the explicit basis of a successful program of social change. (Author/KM)

In response to the argument that the critiques of schooling lack conceptual consistency and clarity, this paper discusses these criticisms within the conceptual framework of self-alienation. (Editor)

Adapted from the Preface to Perspectives on Management Systems Approaches in Education: A Symposium,'' Educational Technology Publications, 1973. (CB)

Author attempts to sum up what he has learned in his studies of American educational history using five principles: complexity, uncertainty, continuity, obsolescence and hope. (MB)