An interview on peace education with Tom Roderick (interviewer: Ate Bjerstedt) of Educators for Social Responsibility is presented in this document. Educators for Social Responsibility is a national teachers' organization in the United States that offers programs and curricula that are intended to help young people become engaged in the world. The…

This book is designed for use as a theoretical and practical tool for planning and implementing secondary school change. Chapter 1 presents the history of the development of the CaMaPe models and a perspective on the universality of educational and organizational structures and describes the kinds of schools appropriate to the models. The basic…

This paper draws a parallel between the social problems the United States faces today and the problems the country faced in the latter part of the 19th century. Contemporary efforts of educators to address social problems with new curricula can be likened to similar efforts made by 19th century educators. The 19th century effort included the…

This paper discusses the life and works of Margaret McMillan and Maria Montessori, two advocates for the poor who played a significant role in social and educational reform in Britain and Italy, respectively, in the late 19th- and early 20th century. The upbringing, education, and social milieu of the two women are compared, as well as their…

This book is a valuable resource for those concerned with alternative approaches to education, and for such courses as educational theory or philosophy. Drawing on elements of progressive education, existentialism, feminist pedagogy, and values education, critical humanism combines the holistic-psychological concerns of humanistic education with…

This paper explores the challenges to higher education and the academic community in light of increasing ethnic and cultural diversity. Knowledge is not objective, neutral and separate from the knower but knowers are all implicated in the ways they construe knowledge. Consequently a minority student shares her own story of immigrating to the…

Two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft, the English women's rights pioneer, published her immortal work: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." In it she placed much of the blame for women's inferior political, intellectual, and social status on "faulty education." In "Vindication," she offered a number of…

The project group "Preparedness for Peace" at the Lund University Malmo School of Education in Sweden studies ways of helping children and young people to deal constructively with questions of peace and war. As part of this work, experts with special interests in competence in areas related to peace education are interviewed. This…

Supplemental instruction (SI) is a non-remedial academic support or peer tutoring program based on the concept that students are more likely to persist in college if they establish a feeling of belonging to their educational institution. The SI model differs from traditional tutoring in the following ways: (1) instead of assisting poor or failing…

Education has always been a cherished value in the Jewish tradition. For U.S. Jews, until the post-World War II period, the child was the principal focus of educational efforts. With an age shift in the Jewish population in the United States, the need for investigation of Jewish adult educational programs is strong. Most existing programs lack…

At the source of the current crises faced by the United States is societal ambiguity, both intentional and unintentional. It is theorized that this ambiguity results from the emergences of existentialism and pragmatism as central themes in the U.S. educational system. The relationship between morality and education is explored from a number of…

Developed by the state of Virginia, six educational goals to develop concepts, skills, and positive attitudes related to art elements and principles, responses to art and art objects, and the production of artwork are outlined. These goals and objectives pertain to four roles that the student assumes when engaged in art experiences: that of…

The relationship between obscenity in the arts and practices in the school art classes is discussed. The issue of whether or not a teacher can advocate unrestricted freedom of speech expression is raised and the problems for the teacher caused by attitudes in the contemporary art world are outlined. (Author)

This report documents the proceedings from a series of four regional roundtable discussions sponsored by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Representatives including arts educators, educational leaders, school administrators, artists, elected officials, and arts organization members were brought together to discuss practical aspects of…

An interdisciplinary, core course in humanities offered at Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) approaches ethical and aesthetic issues in untraditional ways to encourage students to think more independently and articulate ideas with greater breadth. The three-term course is taught by teachers from many departments. Course sections are limited to 18…