This comparison of teacher education in China and the United States covers national policies, attitudes toward the teaching profession, and teacher education reform, and suggests that U.S. educators should be more interested in what other countries are doing in the teacher education field. (CB)

Urges interpreters of outdoor/environmental education to define their mission, clarify roles of sponsoring organizations, compete successfully in the high tech/high touch society, determine education standards, and address interpretive research guidelines to meet demands of twenty-first century. Examines definition of field, philosophy, audience,…

Offers perspectives on the environment as an expression of personal and cultural elements. Philosophically develops the concepts of home, place, and story. Also suggests that dimensions of historical interpretation, cultural ecology, and study of the future be included in environmental education programs. (ML)

Urges that leisure-oriented programs which focus on the outdoors be based on an environmental ethic that guarantees the protection of the natural environment. Proposes that the good of the total community takes precedence over the needs of individual members (including humans). Ethical dilemmas and educational implications are reviewed. (ML)

The ten finalists for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's annual Professor of the Year award analyze the extent to which they try to focus their teaching and students' attention on the "real world" outside the classroom and how they view their responsibility to society. (MSE)

Maintains that imaginative philosophical dialogue is an essential and necessary condition to education. Contends that the development of an autonomous person who has the ability to think well and to think for him or herself about matters of importance is essential in a democracy. (Author/JDH)

The author presents two interviews: one with Geoff Melling on identifying new vocational realities for adult education in the seventies, and one with Jack Mansell on driving the adult education engine of curriculum review and development in the eighties. (CT)

The author provides a scholarly analysis of Black education in the U.S. between 1880 and 1915. The article examines Booker T. Washington's establishment of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington's philosophy of racial accommodation, contradictions in the Tuskegee approach, and the weakness of Washington's economic strategy. (CT)

Explores educational possibilities and discusses how classroom practice might be related to one's communal and national future. Defines pedagogy as the integration in practice of particular curriculum content and design, classroom strategies and techniques, a time and space for the practice of those strategies and techniques, and evaluation…

Argues against the present divisions of English and American literature and for the designation of literature in English, not out of a formalistic concern with language alone, but out of a consciousness of the social and political role of language and of the worldwide social and political role of English today. (NKA)

A survey of science teachers was conducted to ascertain their perceptions of global problems, policy issues, and recommendations for curriculum and instruction related to the science-technology-society theme. The focus is on information on implementing the science-technology-society theme in school science programs. (MNS)

Maintains that the content and methods of moral education are inextricably intertwined. Develops a view of moral education which recognizes the synthesis of content and process in students' school and home life. (JDH)

Describes the pedagogical and philosophical reasons for adopting the use of take-home multiple choice exams for introductory sociology courses. Reports students' reactions to the exams and provides a discussion of the grading conflicts which arise due to improved performance. (JDH)

Essay review of Arthur Bestor's "Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in our Public Schools." Review maintains that the book is still an eloquent attack on the misguided progressive education practices of the 1950s but is flawed as a serious statement of the type of liberal education we should strive for. (JDH)

While there is increasing agreement that aesthetics is related to a quality art program, an analysis of major scholars who have prescribed content for aesthetics in art education indicates that there is little agreement on the conditions of the relationship. This study attempts to clarify different conditions for aesthetics in the curriculum.…