This is the report of an observation of the Finley elementary school in central Harlem, New York City. Its reading program is projected by the principal as the instructional leverage for the organization of the school. The program is described in detail, including how parents are described and how the program is used to foster self-esteem for…

This paper is concerned with issues related to reasons why some early childhood intervention programs may not have lived up to expectations. By intervention is meant the introduction of planned programing deliberately timed and arranged in order to alter the anticipated or projected course of development. Although an intervention program should be…

Since the 1968 Vocational Education Amendments there has been increased emphasis on programs of world of work orientation and exploration for elementary and secondary students. In order to identify the problems facing these programs and the methodological approaches used in their development, this review emphasizes school responsibility in setting…

This volume, intended for advanced and specialized teacher education courses, approaches educational problems from one of the standard divisions of general philosophy. Noting that substantive or normative ethics has dominated the literature of values and education, rather than meta-ethnics or analytical ethics, the editor states that his intention…

Community college preparation of students for the job market shows an increasing acceptance of basic responsibility for post-secondary occupational education, as contrasted to the poorer placement opportunities of senior institutional graduates. Implications for facility requirements can be drawn from examining concepts, which require: (1)…

This bibliography traces its origin back to a group of abstracts that surveyed a book published by the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture, and entitled "A Decade of Projects on Behalf of the Culturally Disadvantaged." The National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. commissioned a chapter-by-chapter abstract to be presented in…

This paper discusses the development of structuralism in psychology, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology by citing theories supported by thinkers in all these fields. The contrast between structure (schema, pattern, gestalt) and function (activity, interaction, transformation) is used as the point of departure for the…

This conference, attended by 21 teacher educators, supervisors, and people working with elementary children in the classroom, consisted of three meetings during the 1969-70 academic year. This report deals with the nature of industrial arts in the elementary school, different approaches and requirements for implementation, and some ways of meeting…

Among the explorations undertaken in the course of establishing the National Institute of Education (NIE) by the NIE Planning Unit was a set of eleven conferences of experts on educational problems, methods, and content. Three of these conferences focused on the contributions that anthropology, psychology, and sociology might make to the…

This volume contains reactions to the career education concept as proposed by the U.S. Office of Education from a panel of 23 educators, practitioners, businessmen, and students representing such disciplines as anthropology, law, political science, sociology, mathematics, vocational education, psychology, philosophy, and counseling. The Foreword…

Education should help people learn to use past experiences as a basis for acquiring new meanings, which frees individuals from what restricts and what enslaves. However, the curriculum has become a program for social purposes and the school an instrument of social control when, in reality, what is needed is persuasion (not coercion) and discussion…

Career may be defined as a course of continued progress in the life of a person. Since in the recent history of mankind, one's life has been largely defined by the work that one does, vocation or occupation has become the colloquial connotation for career. In the social order which is emerging, work may no longer be central, but may give way to…

This article discusses the importance of continuing education for teachers and various aspects of the problem which should be considered. The role and function of the teacher is discussed; continuing education must assist in developing the teacher's ability to fulfill that role. The ever-changing demands on the teacher mean that the teacher's…

This seminar on the use of audiovisual aids reached several conclusions on the need for and the use of such aids in Latin America. The need for educational innovation in the face of a new society, a new type of communication, and a new vision of man is stressed. A new definition of teaching and learning as a fundamental process of communication is…

Factors which influence the acquisition of a second language within the framework of the British educational system are examined in this study. An ongoing, 10-year, language experiment (1964-74) involving 18,000 students ranging in age from 8 to 13, concentrates on determining the desirability and practicability of starting modern language…