Teaching to large classes is often challenging particularly when the faculty and teaching resources are limited. Innovative, less staff intensive ways need to be explored to enhance teaching and to engage students. We describe our experience teaching biochemistry to 350 students at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) under…

Careful course design sets the stage for effective learning, whether in a formal or informal setting. Designers of learning experiences seek a balance among several learning objectives that compete for time in the classroom and for space on the syllabus. The nature of community based learning with adults multiplies the design decisions that must…

This paper draws on recent work by John Clarke and Janet Newman and their colleagues to analyse a relatively coherent governmental project, spanning the decades of Conservative and New Labour government in England since 1979, that has sought to render teachers increasingly subservient to the state and agencies of the state. Under New Labour this…

Examines the current state of educational psychology in teacher education and offers some possible directions for improving that state. (IRT)

This essay provides an exposition of Plato's educational proposals, based on his belief in the supremacy of reason and a need for order, symmatry and discipline. The article disagrees with the Platonic view of a rigid and absolute moral certainty and his argument for the supreme value of theoretical pursuits. (CHK)

Author evaluated the current state of educational practice and the "virtually uncontrolled state" of educational policy. (Author/RK)

Discussed the principles of Modern Architecture and Froebel's principles and their influence upon Frank Lloyd Wright. (RK)

The elitist, professional, and philosophical elements of higher education are reflected upon with stress on the differences between higher education and higher learning, where education is concerned with giving wider groups a share in a broad image of man, and learning is concerned with increasing specialization. (JH)

The passive state of higher education must be changed by active reconsideration of the old model of the university. Some considerations might be an orientation toward older students and interrupted schooling, reviewing the civic and "elitist" vs. "democratic" functions of higher education, the importance of teaching as opposed to research, and the…

The fact that life-long education has broken away from and is totally distinct from adult education was not recognized by the 1960 World Conference on Adult Education in Montreal. The misconceptions and the distinctions among lifelong education, adult education, and literacy campaigns are discussed. (AG)

The goals for public schools in Texas pertain to student development, organizational efficiency, and accountability. The goals for student development involve intellectual discipline, economic and occupational competence, citizenship and political understanding and competence, physical and environmental health and ecological balance, appreciation…

Because the reflective and moral craft approaches to teacher education do not recognize the complexity of moral deliberation, prospective teachers should instead use distinct moral principles to examine teaching issues and to strive to act in morally virtuous ways in their interactions with students. (Author/CB)

Support is growing for the thesis that, since freedom is valuable, compulsory education needs justifying. Proposals by consent theorists involving prior, subsequent, and hypothetical consent are examined. These theories make no substantive contribution to solving the problem of justifying education. (SR)