Maintains that psychology majors can broaden their career opportunities to include such areas as marketing, personnel, and training and development. Describes the most important psychological and nonpsychological skills required for these areas and provides information on coursework which would support professional certification and employment…

Discusses the growth of environmental education in all grade levels in Australia. Reports that environmental legislation exists in every state and that pre-service, inservice, and degreed environmental programs are offered throughout the country. Data on tertiary level courses and a detailed description of Monash University's program are also…

Assumptions about liberal arts education need to be reexamined, the environment in which they are taught needs to be restructured, the mechanics of the learning and teaching activities must be reviewed, and a balance must be found between objectivity and human judgment. (MSE)

The president of the Exxon Education Foundation suggests that the study of philanthropy and the philanthropic tradition should be incorporated into formal education in the United States, in public education, the undergraduate curriculum, and research. (MSE)

Expresses general agreement with Shapiro's "Scholarly Concerns of a Faculty of Education" and its position on schools of education as part of the larger university; the need of interdepartmental cooperation; and the importance of general education to teacher training. Describes the University of Calgary's joint General Studies/Elementary…

This study identified components in the implicit (what was actually taught) curriculum for clinical instruction at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. The underlying philosophy, curricular content, implications for teaching strategies, and sequencing of what was taught, were examined. (BS)

Citizens of technologically advanced nations are confronted with tremendous ethical dilemmas that students need to develop sophisticated ethical frameworks to deal with. The humanities must teach students to think as carefully about questions of value as about questions of fact. (MSE)

Computers are not just an adjunct to learning but an entirely new mode of learning, and colleges and universities can and must adjust to their advent. (MSE)

Math and science instruction now often includes more brief, informal writing exercises, sometimes completed in class, as a means of helping college students think more clearly. While writing skills are not emphasized, student writing often improves as a by-product. (MSE)

Lack of support for language and literature study in higher education reflects the larger attitudes of American culture: that learning for its own sake has little value. This provincialism is outmoded, dangerous, and intellectually indefensible, and must be eliminated in order to redefine language and literature studies. (MSE)

The act of writing reflects the mind operating from learned techniques, but learning is also being practiced. Writing instruction includes the study of rhetoric as well as literature, which makes it a liberal art. Understanding the principles of rhetoric allows the writer to know that how something is said is as important as what is said. (MSE)

Readers of holocaust literature can learn from the common person as hero. If traditional heroic models are less frequent in holocaust literature than in Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan literature, the common person defying his or her fate and still trying to survive is still worthy of attention. In this insistence on survival, a freedom of spirit is…

American educators persist in thinking of the typical American college student as being under age 22, although statistics do not support this. There are steady increases in the enrollment of nontraditional students, especially women, which will affect curriculum design. (MLW)

The goals of medical school curricula regarding the clinical competencies of graduating students were explored. Inventories listing 83 clinical skills were sent to U.S. medical schools and to volunteer clinical faculty members at the University of Utah School of Medicine. (Author/MLW)

Current efforts and emphases in higher education in Byelorussia, aimed at improving the training of technological and scientific specialists, are discussed. Among the topics of current research are curriculum development, teaching methods and management, training for professionalism and communism, teaching aids, and economic management in higher…