The role of Russian teacher unions during the years of the Revolution and civil war in organizing initial opposition to the new Soviet order and in defeating that opposition is discussed. A historical rationale for the fundamental principles that underlie Soviet educational policies today is presented. (RM)

This essay draws together various ideas on education that appear in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and demonstrates how these ideas relate to Hegel's total philosophy. Education, by retracing the path of the mind's self-realization, raises the individual's subjective consciousness to recognition of the rationality underlying social…

Teacher education should equip tomorrow's teachers with academic, instructional, and developmental understandings. A three-dimensional teacher education model focusing on these understandings is proposed, and components of each dimension are discussed. (PP)

A quantitative theory of teaching suggests that more teaching leads to more learning. Supplementing this is a qualitative theory of teaching, suggesting that learning is largely unafffected by the form of teaching. Four approaches accounting for the qualitative principle of teaching are discussed, including implications for science curriculum and…

A collaborative relationship among teachers, parents, students, and citizens can educate students more successfully than the present antilearning educational bureaucracy. (Author/MLF)

This article is intended primarily as an exposition of the essentials of current theory and approved practice, together with some indication of major problems and shortcomings as perceived by the Russians themselves. (Author)

Responding to Ben Brodinsky's article, the author declares that the New Right wants the schools turned back to the local school boards elected by the people so that the schools will reflect the moral standards of local communities. (Author/MLF)

Education in international human rights needs to develop informed critical judgment for considering human rights principles and applying them in the examination of conditions in any country. The purpose should not be to further nationalistic or imperialistic education. (Author/KC)

Aporti is credited with starting Italian infant education, opening his first school in 1827 in Lombardy, which was then ruled by Austria. This paper discusses Aporti's educational views, his career, the spread of Italian infant schools and, particularly, reactions of the government and the church to Aporti and his movement. (SJL)

The American college is viewed as a continuation of the self-education processes of the universe. A core curriculum is described which includes courses that would present the four evolutionary phases of the functional cosmology, the four phases of human cultural development, and classical cultures that have dominated human development. (JN)

Educators interested in community education have a perspective similar to that of modern anthropologists. Therefore, anthropologists should work with educators in the reorganization of institutions involved in education and socialization. (Author/EB)

A teacher notes the good and bad effects of the "back to basics" movement. (RL)

The author discusses the importance of improvisation, suggesting that improvisation be introduced in the earliest stages of education and be taught through an approach that integrates ear training, sight-reading, instrumental and vocal techniques and theory into a unified and complete understanding of music as a language. (Author/KC)

This study examined relationships between measures of personality characteristics, personal and teaching practices beliefs, levels of dogmatism, and cognitive outcomes for a sample of graduating education students. (Author/GSK)

Critically examines some of the assumptions made about student teaching, particularly about the roles of the college supervisor and the cooperating teacher. (SJL)