Three issues emanating from the Bulterman-Bos article (2008) form the core of this commentary. First, the issue of relevancy is addressed from the standpoint of action research and other forms of practitioner inquiry. From this perspective, the divisions between the cultures of university and school are addressed both ways: Each can potentially be…

This article presents an interview with Chere Campbell Gibson, a professor emerita in the School of Human Ecology and graduate program in Continuing and Vocational Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gibson shares her years of experience in distance education, discusses her book titled "Distance Learners in Higher Education:…

Communicating the Christian ethos of Christian institutions constitutes a significant portion of the effort and monies of these institutions. Included in the purview of ethos enablers are faculty input and advising, student services, required chapel/worship, ministry formation/field experiences, admissions procedures, and opportunities for…

The Delors report remains a timely and challenging agenda for shaping education from the earliest years. This article reviews the status of basic education, defined as a passport to life in the report. Despite progress toward universal primary education and gender parity, countries are still far from education targets adopted in 2000. Lack of care…

This paper recounts the influence of two of the great educational philosophers of this century, John Dewey and George Herbert Mead. Both men came to the University of Chicago from teaching at the University of Michigan. The men were life-long personal friends and professional colleagues. Although Mead published little during his life, his…

The controversy over the contrast between early childhood principles and the commercial exhibits at the 1990 annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children prompted a search for historical antecedents. Research disclosed that the first popular linking of Froebelian kindergarten curriculum and manufactured equipment…

Adult students learn effectively only when there evolves, in the course which they attend, a framework of reference to experience of the world outside the meeting room by which they can orient, assimilate and make use of what it is they are learning. (Author)

Three adult educators from Vienna, on a study trip, were impressed by the idealism evident in the Chinese endeavor to find an intellectual foundation for a new and better world. Several aspects of education in China are mentioned, emphasizing programs for adults, all of whom are now literate. (SA)

Article presented 7 existential principles of learning as well as 7 existential conditions for facilitating learning designed to help students realize their potentialities. (RK)

This paper makes a case for the existence and study of the wisdom of practice by looking at educational practitioners' concepts as its locus and source. (These concepts may also be described as the accumulated "folk wisdom" of the teaching community). These communal concepts, part of an accumulated lore regarding teaching and education…

Today's vocational education program can be traced to basic principles established during the formative period of vocational education. Although the implementation of vocational education may change, basic principles continue to stand. Four points of view, randomly selected from the past 200 years, which seem to be present in vocational education…

Reconciling large-scale use of common materials with the unique nature of each classroom grouping is the central problem of the curriculum developer. Certain generally applicable educational principles can aid in coping with these problems when coupled with empirical testing of all materials with children and/or teachers. But, the payoff of…

This document on performance-based teacher education (PBTE), issued two years after the first publication of AACTE's Committee on PBTE, represents an attempt to clarify key concepts and terminology, call attention to significant potentialities and problems, and suggest future action. Chapter I is a brief introduction. In Chapter II, the committee…

Following the general conference theme of "Education for Solidarity," this report describes the educational principle and framework within the Kibbutz. The "Mossad" or Community School shelters the Kibbutz child and supervises his development from 12 to 18. The great formative factors, as seen by the Kibbutz, are communal…

This paper presents a conceptual model for the purpose of specifying major educational components and their relationship. The initial stage of building this theoretical framework for education includes the clarification of three terms: curriculum, instruction, and learning outcomes. The next section deals with constructs embodied by each of the…