The essays contained in this issue discuss some of the recent changes in the English curriculum (including the move toward accountability), the increase in the number of elective courses, and the effect of recent innovations on the future of English as a staple of the high school curriculum. Contents include "The English Curriculum: Fossil, Amoeba…

From its origins in manual training programs in the Nineteenth Century, industrial arts today, in South Carolina, is viewed as a necessary part of education for all students, with specific objectives in harmony with those of education in general. Industrial arts draws its content and methodology from industrial technology and the social…

Recommendations based on the two-and-a-half-year history of The Demonstration Center for Language Handicapped (LH) Children are reported. Noted are such recommendations as the following: that each school district develop its own operational definition of LH based on the state definition, adding the concept of significant discrepancy between…

Two papers are presented concerning comparative higher education--one concerning its relevance for policymaking and the other reviewing a United States view. The first paper reviews comparative higher education in relation to studies of higher education, the use of comparative studies of higher education in policymaking, factors of relevance and…

These National Humanities Faculty working papers are presentations from the Question of Authority Workshop. Frithjof Bergmann's "The Logic of Freedom" distinguishes two approaches to the concept of freedom--that freedom is the ultimate good and that freedom is a burden. A theory of freedom is constructed in the second part of Bergmann's…

The lives and contributions of nine women educators, all early founders or leaders of the International Kindergarten Union (IKU) or the National Council of Primary Education (NCPE), are profiled in this book. Their biographical sketches are presented in two sections. The Froebelian influences are discussed in Part 1 which includes the chapters on…

This publication, concerned with the teaching of science in open classrooms or informal educational settings, contains four papers: "But Is It Science?" by Lillian Weber; "The Common Roots of Science" by Nathan Isaacs; "Curriculum with a Difference" by Eleanor Duckworth; and "Making a Start," Nuffield Junior…

Ideas, comments, and points made by the participants at the Symposium for Bilingual-Bicultural Manpower Development are included in this paper. Some basic information about career education (its philosophy, definitions, and models) are outlined. The models show the 3 main phases in the career process: awareness, orientation and exploration, and…

This document is the final report of a project on performance-based materials for use in an elementary science education teacher training program developed by personnel at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. The materials developed in this project were designed to provide instruction and practice relative to certain…

This document presents a systems theory approach to post-secondary education. Terms such as entropy, energy, and "essergy" together with the laws of thermodynamics are applied to educational concepts. A philosophical approach with interspersed quotations from Hegel, Korzybski, and Adelman is used to design a new educational paradigm based upon…

There is a conflict between the traditional concept of journalism education--characterized by devotion to the five "w's," the inverted pyramid news story form, the style book, and copy reading symbols--and a newly emerging, philosophy of communicologist-dominated journalism schools--characterized by increasing specialization in space exploration,…

This study represents an attempt to present both sides of the behavioral objectives conflict in English and, after a discussion of the philosphical implications, to pose a suitable pedagogical compromise between the positions of the "behaviorists" and the "humanists." It is divided into three chapters: "Background…

This book treats Pestalozzi as a social critic, political reformer, and teacher. In addition to the interpretation of Pestalozzi's thought, this book presents the story of his life, set against the background of European history, and examines his humanitarianism as an educator. The book contains seven sections: "The Youth" sketches…

Three issues involved in staff development in the junior-community college are discussed. These issues are: (1) the impact of the history of the community college on both staff recruitment and development, (2) the characteristics, both cognitive and affective, of the "new" non-traditional student, and (3) the interaction of the "new" staff with…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Edith Kern, Claude-Edmonde Magny, Henri Peyre, Kenneth Douglas, Edmund Wilson, Theophil Spoerri, Jacques Guicharnaud, Eric Bentley, Robert Champigny, Oreste F. Pucciani, Frederic Jameson, Rene Girard, Guido…