Reports on some ways in which schools approach the task of teaching pupils about the nature of industry as part of their general understanding of society. Describes some of the methods which schools have adopted including work visits, work experience, and inviting industrialists into the classroom. (CT)

The process of education is examined. It is suggested that the transition from high school to college should be dynamic, with freshmen jolted and challenged in direct ways. College is a way to fulfill a student's vocation in the present as well as prepare for a future goal. (MLW)

In "Emile," Rousseau recognized the educational value of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe." Despite this, and despite some common ground between these two writers, their differences in educational outlook outweigh their similarities, especially in the educational debates of their age concerning Nature and Nurture and Private and Public…

Described briefly is a course on arts advocacy designed so that guest speakers representing a broad base of organizations and/or legislative oriented groups could create action and movement to enhance arts education through networking and other sophisticated strategies. The course became a consciousness-raising event. (KC)

There are four elements which the author has found to be essential for success when designing and conducting staff development programs: awareness, application, implementation, and maintenance. Each of these elements is discussed in detail, followed by the warning that the four-phase model requires school board commitment to insure its success.…

Examines Martin Buber's educational philosophy and his criticisms of the philosophies of Georg Kerschensteiner, John Dewey, Johann Pestalozzi, and John Ruskin, among others. (CK)

This article examines the nature and utility of the study of the history of education. (MC)

A new role must be defined for the philosophy of education if it is to work through the problems of the knowledge explosion. Current trends of research in philosophy of education consist of applications of analytic philosophy to the traditional ideas and principles of education. (JN)

Claiming that as educators have developed alternatives to traditional education they have also thrown out the babies of cultural insight with the bathwater of educational bureaucracy, this paper explores two heresies--the "learning by doing" and "reforming by doing" heresies--that limit and may ultimately threaten the…

Described is a summer institute for art teachers, where they work in an isolated location with artists of their choice--musicians, architects, writers--in order to develop technical skills within a new perspective of learning. (KC)

The author states that nearly all nationally stated aims in education profess to cherish individual qualities. He suggests, however, that this ideal is a generalization which cannot be discussed in any universalistic way through all time in all countries, culture-contexts, and ideologies. (KC)

This article surveys educational environments and philosophies of school discipline from the colonial era through the twentieth century to illustrate that students have always been considered difficult to control. (Suthor/SJL)

A test was used to assess the degree to which pediatricians and nurses specializing in perinatal care believe in a just world in which good is rewarded and evil is punished. Results indicate that the cause of some perinatal problems are more likely to be attributed to parents by health providers with a greater belief in a just world. (JMD)

Selected resource materials and addenda of interest to educators in veterinary medicine are provided. Materials include: historical and philosophical perspectives, changing concepts and trends, instructional methods and measurement, postgraduate and continuing education, general interest and reference materials, and a short list of periodicals.…

Discusses the conflict between educational practices and the ideal to educate students for democratic autonomy. The conflict is heightened by the fact that the work most people do exercises their education not in the form of academic skills obtained, but in the form of discipline and obedience that schools implicitly inculcate as part of their…