This report deals with the philosophy behind the Liverpool Educational Priority Area Project, a program of adult education for working class persons, and describes two of the programs in detail. Education in an EPA needs to be relevant, grounded in real problems and situations, and the emphasis should be on involvement and discovery. The first…

In England over the last 20 years there has been a major revolution in the teaching of primary school children. This revolution has come about through the efforts of wise, enthusiastic, and experimenting teachers rather than through the idealized practices and techniques of professors, inspectors, or administrators. This document gives an account…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the report generated by the National Curriculum Conference organized by the Nigeria Educational Research Council, as part of its search for an appropriate philosophy of education for Nigeria. The needs of youth, the needs of society, and the substance of the curriculum…

This document describes an experimental, multinational plan for adult secondary education sponsored through the Organization of American States and the Argentine Ministry of Culture and Education. General and specific goals of the program are listed here along with details of the proposed curriculum and areas of study, entrance requirements,…

A rationale for the social studies k-12 program in Baltimore County is presented in this report designed to help teachers review a philosophy of social studies education. Accompanying the rationale are a series of related position papers which elaborate important aspects of social studies education. Also included is a Board of Education Policy…

Using a previously validated competency pattern for the teacher coordinator, this research designs a distributive teacher education curriculum to serve as a model that can be modified for individual programs. The design includes a philosophy of distributive teacher education, curriculum planning, and a curriculum design. Also included are: (1) a…

This book, one of the Studies of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University, is an expanded and updated bibliography of an earlier work published in 1965 that attempts to bring together materials in English on education in Japan. Approximately 1500 selective items dated from 1876 to 1969 written by Americans and Japanese are grouped under the…

This paper examines individually and comparatively the philosophical and legal bases and the funding patterns of the community college systems of Illinois and Tennessee. The Illinois community college system represents a locally controlled, state coordinated, shared funding approach while the Tennessee system represents a state controlled,…

The philosophy, strategy, and program of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values are presented in this collection of articles. Intended as a means of disseminating the institute's work and ideas to a general audience, the booklet is presented in four sections. Each section offers a theoretical article, an outline or a summary of an educational…

This catalog is the third in a series extending and updating teaching materials previously disseminated through the ERIC system, including the "Greenbook System" of training materials for higher education professionals (ED 103 083 and 084), Open Classroom Documentation, a procedural manual for an autoinstructional learning laboratory at…

Physical education is academic discipline influencing the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, promoting the development of the total individual by means of selected movement experiences and physical activities. As a structured portion of education, it has been in existence only about 100 years when a department of Physical Education and…

This book presents the philosphical, psychological, and educational ideas of Maria Montessori. Chapters deal with: (1) the contribution of Montessori's ideas to philosophy, education, science, and child development; (2) the relationship of the Montessori materials to a child's intellectual, emotional and social development; (3) Montessori's view…

Calling for an international educational policy that would relate all education to the rural world and agriculture, this book is directed toward the developing nations and maintains: all citizens must be made aware of the importance of agriculture in the process of socioeconomic development; rural subjects should be included in education in…

Readings and ten weeks of discussions at institutes about current societal malaise, problems of growth, implications of growth for freedom and justice, and the "good" society are summarized. College, university, and secondary-school participants represented the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Focusing on current problems, institute…

Examines the relationship between writing and learning in a college-level writing-across-the-curriculum class in philosophy. Results provide a basis for speculation about the conception of the writing/learning relationship and about the viability of further hermeneutical study of student writing. (SRT)