Education of the child, including preschool education, has been and still is a topic of great concern to many people. Translation of this concern into constructive programs for early childhood education is a profound problem, one that is debated often and emotionally. There is a dichotomy between those who favor educational practices based on…

The coordination of student personnel and academic programs is one need of American higher education. The best possibilities for integrating the efforts of student personnel workers and academicians lie in the initiation and maintenance of programs of organized faculty advisement. The applied task of advising and counseling students draws upon…

This paper discusses the Fanon Center's Restoration Model, an "exemplary education" paradigm that seeks to institute a new educational ideology and alternative educational approach based on a "new humanism." The basis of this new humanism is the synthesis of analytic, affective, and sensate ways of discovery and knowing. The model places equal…

Teaching is seen as an integrated and integrative act and the need in teacher education to promote the prospective teacher's ability to synthesize elements of the instructional program into coherent patterns is stressed. The justification for synthesis is presented in four characteristics suggesting essentials of a teacher education program (an…

This anthology provides an organized way to examine the many types of aims which have been advanced as the proper ends for educating. Essays of educational philosophers from Plato to the present day are presented. The contents are organized into four divisions. Sections one and two are concerned with the public aims of education. The third section…

A study of current curriculum guides indicates that the most important purposes generally agreed on for studying literature are related to enjoyment and insight for the student. Teacher preparation, on the other hand, has consisted mainly in producing English majors who emphasized historical periods, famous authors, and literary criticism. In…

This monograph critically examines the growth metaphor advanced by Lawrence Kohlberg as it relates to the development of a moral ideology. Kohlberg's stage theory is viewed as an ideology--that is, as a "style of thinking." Much of the critique in this study is informed by a perspective called "critical social theory." While…

This paper is divided into five sections, the first of which states the author's purpose for writing the paper as being to think through the experience he had as the instructor of a pilot class within the secondary education professional sequence at the Teachers College of Ball State University. The next section is a discussion of the methodology…

Emphasizing the role of evaluation in program development, this publication describes the Mississippi Choctaw Bilingual Education Program (BECOM), its philosophy, goals, objectives, and proposed evaluation plan. Major components of this K-3 program are identified as: (1) Instruction; (2) Curriculum and Materials Development; (3) Management; (4)…

The document is part of a series that reports the findings and accomplishments of the Models for Career Education in Iowa project which was initiated to research, define, and describe an emerging concept of career education and to suggest possible approaches for implementation in primary and secondary education. One of the basic components in the…

The major thesis of this paper is that the world of education has grown very complex, and it must be treated as such if one is to be an effective philosopher and educator in this century. A general reflection on the genesis of the field of education and the evolution of philosophy of education is offered. Two main parts of the educational complex…

Reviewed are the philosophy and status of environmental education and some examples of environmental education programs and materials. The introduction poses problems facing mankind and discusses the role of the environmental educator in their solution. Two chapters are devoted to discussion of issues in environmental education. Among the issues…

In addition to the special addresses, the proceedings contain speeches on (1) research, (2) international relations, (3) intercollegiate athletics, (4) the history of sport, (5) teacher education, (6) basic instruction, and (7) intramural athletics. In the area of research, papers on philosophical, experimental, sociological, and historical…

This paper argues that teachers of remedial students must make their students create their own order and meanings which may be at variance with the established order around them, but are valid nevertheless. Current research stresses the need to develop a positive self-concept, particularly in remedial students and in those whose cultural values…

This paper argues that instead of getting "back to basics" (correct usage, spelling, capitalization, etc.) teachers of writing should be concerned with the fundamentals of writing well. These include an attention to the composing process; experience with producing a variety of writings (spontaneous writing, the persuasive essay, the critical…