In this article, Grint's model of leadership is used to shape discussions of how "problems" are responded to in the context of a preschool in an Australian regional town. Authority styles are described as command, management, or leadership. These authority styles result in approaching problems as "crises," "tame…

This paper views seeking the optimal balance between state strengths and the scope of state functions for "good governance" as the formation of a homogenization-heterogenization matrix of policy initiatives in different social settings. Homogenization refers to a global tendency for institutional changes and governance framework to…

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)

A remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the founder and first headmaster of the world-famous Summerhill School in Suffolk County, England. (MLF)