The UNESCO-UNEP International Environmental Education Program (1975-1995) provided impetus for developing, legitimizing, and institutionalizing environmental education. More recently, UNESCO was mandated by the United Nations to carry out a worldwide shift towards education for sustainable development. As international organizations'…

This article draws on research grounded in a theoretical framework informed by the work of Alfred Schutz and of Berger and Luckmann and explores transition to university as a loss experience. The specific loss examined here is that which results from student identity discontinuity as they undertake the initial transition to university--a…

Educational development is one way through which Turkey enhances progress towards its social goals and prepares itself for European Union membership. A major effort to upgrade the Turkish educational system was made through a multi-phased comprehensive reform of the sector introduced during the 1990s. One part of this reform, perhaps most crucial…

The objective of this paper was to determine whether educators, students, and community leaders, collectively and individually, differ significantly in their opinions of the importance of secondary educational goals. (Author/RK)

The author expresses the opinion that adult basic education teachers do not carry the prestige in the educational hierarchy that their counterparts in other educational areas do. (EA)

Adversarial settings help a graduate student gain a sense of vocation in his academic pursuits. (KM)

Considered the views of T. S. Eliot on education, including four essays he wrote entitled, "The Aims of Education". (RK)

A study of 760 individuals was conducted in Iowa to discover attitudes towards public elementary and secondary education. The primary focus was to measure the attitudes and opinions of the general public regarding the nature, quality, and organization of education. A secondary goal was to identify concerns and problems, as well as to suggest…

Two approaches toward research--discipline-oriented and organic--are described with reference to their implications for practitioners of student personnel work. Student personnel workers are asked to examine the structures and meanings of disciplines that inform their work. (Author)

The responses of 68 out of approximately 150 adult educators in regions throughout Canada to a questionnaire regarding the importance and development of adult education in Canada are summarized. Their voting on the 14 most significant adult education programs are presented. (JB)

The current status of career education combines continued interest and enthusiasm with problems and shortcomings relating to implementation, quantity and quality of programs, attitudes, and the need for collaboration. Four major attitudinal problems currently face career education. The problem of costs arises from those who think anything…

In an investigation conducted to determine student attitude and achievement in a class lectured by television as contrasted with a similar class lectured by an instructor, the direct-teaching method was found to be significantly superior. As a result of this finding, it was decided that future biological science classes should be taught by the…

Following a discussion of education in the Soviet Union, this paper relates some observations on teacher education in the U.S.S.R. Among the observations noted are that teacher education as a discipline is controlled by the central government; teachers are prepared similarily for both elementary and secondary levels; teacher preparation occurs in…