The philosophy and goals of an interdisciplinary, multinational Master's in International Business program are reported. The administrative and academic aspects of its language-training component are examined. The curriculum, students' internship, and coordination of subject area and language training are briefly described. (PMJ)

The rationale behind the traditional grade organization pattern of pre-primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary is discussed, as is the trend to extend compulsory schooling later into the teenage years. The impact of these divisions and of compulsory schooling itself on equal educational opportunity is considered. (SJL)

Discusses Pima Community College's effort to improve communication and fulfill the common needs of business and education through career education activities involving students, educators, and employers. Explains that Tuscon's changing characteristics prescribed a changing educational philosophy. Provides examples of employer/educator coordination…

Describes the philosophy of, efforts to develop, and two-year outcomes of a child-care center for preschool children and infants. (DB)

Proposes that (1) during most of the nineteenth century leadership in public education primarily took the form of guiding a decentralized social movement; and (2) at the turn of the twentieth century much of the direction of the educational system devolved upon university experts and professional managers. (Author/DB)

The author describes several higher education classes he has taught in an attempt to test out approaches to nondirective, unstructured art education classes and the students' responses to such approaches. (KC)

The author defines the tenets of "Zemecha," Ethiopia's radical education model, adopted in 1974. He asserts that the philosophy, the general mobilization, and the successful campaign of the "Zemecha" constitute a revolution in microcosm which sets a good example for the further advancement of the developing world. (Author/SJL)

Describes the founding of Washington, D.C.'s Brookland School, a preschool-to-grade-eight facility that embodies the middle school philosophy. (Author/JM)

Team-taught interdisciplinary courses are seen as difficult to develop if an institution has a strong departmental structure. Course-pairs, a model to develop a truly interdisciplinary course while providing independent, coherent courses in history and philosophy, is described. The results of a student course-evaluation survey are presented. (MLW)

The program at Deep Springs College combines cattle ranching with traditional college courses. The two-year program is designed to develop a student's focus on loftier ideals and a critical perspective of society, stressing community responsibility and self-reliance. (JMF)

The issue of observability and the relative roles of the senses and reason in understanding the world is reviewed. Eastern "mystical" philosophy serves as a focus in which interpretations of quantum mechanics, as well as the current bootstrap-quark controversy are seen in some slightly different contexts. (Author/GA)

In 1977, religious fundamentalists in Queensland attacked MACOS, a primary social studies course. Content analysis of fundamentalist writings and MACOS materials shows them diametrically opposed in cultural presuppositions. Subsequent government banning of MACOS is seen as a political move to enforce on schools the views of the political elite.…

When Martin Buber was asked to find a way to accomplish the urgent task of assimilation for the new state of Israel in 1948, his solution was adult education and the training of adult educators. Provides a theoretical and philosophic Buber-derived schematic of adult education for developing nations. (MF)

A few tips for helping students who are designated as disabled integrate into the regular school setting socially as well as academically are offered to administrators and teachers. (KC)

The ethics training program at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences involves a four-way dialogue among clinical faculty and house staff, ethics faculty and fellows, the medical students, and philosophy ethics students. The program's clinical basis allows participants to become sophisticated about ethical issues in practice.…