Trends and changes in educational philosophy and policy over approximately the last 50 years are reviewed. The point is made that teacher education faculty members have neglected to consider the overall, "designer" role that they occupy, and instead have focused undue attention on the delineation of specific teacher competencies and educational…

Four essays discuss plans for and experimental stages of a 1965 social studies curriculum development program for grades 4-12, emphasizing rationale and educational objectives, and offering an overview of content and methodology. Chapter I describes the development work as stressing analysis and understanding of a human or social situation using…

The criticism of fiction involves an evaluation of the popular imagination, and consequently the literary critic functions as a challenger of the conventional spirit and behavior of his times. Imaginative literature covers a large part of man's knowledge, for distinctions between works of imagination and works of reason (poetry versus philosophy)…

THIS SYSTEMS APPROACH DETERMINES AND IDENTIFIES ULTIMATE EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND INTERMEDIATE GOALS WHICH PROVIDE THE OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS FOR GOAL ATTAINMENT BY USING MODELS DESIGNED BY SYSTEMS NETWORK ANALYSIS PROCESS, OR SNAP MAPS WHICH ARE SIMPLIFIED FLOW CHARTS, EXPOSING TENTATIVE SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ELEMENTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS…

THIS ADULT LEARNING SEMINAR, OUTGROWTH OF MEETINGS SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, FOCUSED UPON NEEDS OF MINISTERS, OBJECTIVES OF PROGRAM OF CONTINUING EDUCATION, AND PROCESSES BY WHICH PROGRAMS ARE EVALUATED. THE CHANGING WORLD IN WHICH MINISTRY FUNCTIONS WAS DISCUSSED IN PAPERS ON MINISTRY AS EDUCATION OF PUBLIC, IMPLICATIONS OF…

The percentage of Indian children in New Mexico public schools is increasing, but dropout rates remain high and a low level of academic achievement by Indian children persists. An effort should be made to increase Johnson-O'Malley funds for Indian students, and more detailed accounting procedures should be required to ensure that these funds are…

Qualitative standards and criteria designed for self-study are outlined for the institutions: (1) its philosophy and purpose; (2) educational programs, including admissions, curriculum, and instruction in college transfer and in general education, occupational education programs, and occupational extension, continuing education, and community…

An effort has been made in this study to elucidate what social implications are inherent in the environmental teaching situations, and their correlation to the basic purposes and aims of each language instructional program. FLES, English as a Second Language, and Spanish for Spanish-speaking children programs are discussed. It is pointed out that…

This bibliography is divided into seven sections. The first includes studies on students at various elementary levels, grouping procedures, practices and implications for teaching mathematics, and attitude improvement by effective teaching. Studies in the second section cover teacher training, attitudes, abilities, and level of achievement.…

This document contains papers and reports read at the August 1968, meeting of the Continuing Interest Group on Values, a subgroup of the National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration, held at the State University of New York at Albany. Included are three papers by C. Robert Blackmon; the first considers values as education's most…

A study was conducted to design a system of testing and interviewing which would bring into some relationship the personal characteristics of teacher education students and the external or setting demands made on public school teachers. The major purpose was to provide an opportunity for each student to examine his behavior in a safe and…

Using data collected through interviews with headmasters, other administrative personnel, teachers, and pupils from a random stratified sample of 33 comprehensive schools in England and Wales, a study was conducted of the use of the house system, with schools classified into four types: using the house system extensively, 11; using it moderately,…

Addressed to teachers of composition and to other professional students of prose, this book develops a philosophy of composition based on the nature and history of writing. Chapters discuss distinctive features of written speech, the normative character of written speech, progressive tendencies in the history of language and prose, refinement of…

This study sought to identify and elaborate significant strategic elements in the process of assisting science teachers in the application of philosophical analysis to their teaching, and in the modification of their teaching according to the results of analysis. The research is based on case studies of work with teachers, individually and in…

This paper highlights the developments in teaching methods in China in the era of the post-Cultural Revolution, and explains how these methods grew out of educational experimentation during the Yenan period. The Yenan period followed the historic "long march, "when Mao Tse-tung and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) established their…