The paper documents current theories that schools serve as agents of economic and/or cultural reproduction by examining the content and form of a unit in an aesthetic education program. The central argument of reproduction theorists is that schools serve as a means of social control by perpetuating those social and cultural patterns which ensure…

The term "human resource development" is used to include both staff development activities designed to upgrade the professional qualifications of educators, and to signify society's efforts to enable all citizens to realize their full potential. Changes in society over the past 20 years have broken down the boundaries between schools and…

Population education is the educational process which helps people understand the implications of population factors for the well-being of the individual, the family and society. Such education seeks to equip the individual with knowledge, understanding and skills that enable him to assess population situations and trends in terms of the problems…

Teachers and other school staff need special preparation in order to effectively help meet the needs of the terminally ill child. Problems faced by special education personnel in dealing with the dying child include the sparcity of information on the subject and the tendency to avoid the issue of death. (DB)

This publication about moral education is a conversation between a university professor of religion and the chairman of a high school social studies department. As part of the National Humanities Faculty Why Series, the book is intended to help students, teachers, and citizens maintain and improve their intellectual vigor and human awareness and…

Behaviorists define the purpose of educational psychology as that of teaching teachers to predict, control, and modify classroom behavior. This conceptualization is contrasted with the approach which views educational psychology as a comprehensive content area emphasizing information rather than skills. A basic distinction between behaviorists and…

This paper notes the tendency among non-literate peoples such as the American Indians to lose their native language as the demands of modern technology increasingly push them towards literacy in a language which is not their own, and argues that literacy in the vernacular language may present such acculturation and language loss from going hand in…

The social, academic, and personal experiences of students is the basic area explored in this study. Data was obtained from interviews and questionnaires of students and school personnel. James Coleman's work on the adolescent society and other research data was also used. Data was obtained on the influence the actions of teachers, administrators,…

Seniors of 4 Eastern Kentucky high schools (166 boys; 149 girls) were administered semantic differential scales by which they rated first themselves, then their schools. The form used listed 9 pairs of terms, each representing a polarity scaled in 7 intervals. Results inferred that the student who had a high regard for himself also had a high…

The monograph is aimed at helping groups of parents associated with schools or classes for deaf children who form associations with a view toward improving both existing programs and their own efforts at raising a deaf child. Presented first is a broad view, based on a survey of related literature within the last decade, of parents' programs.…

In order to supply drug education guidelines for its schools, the Michigan State Board of Education created an advisory council of professionals from the fields of drugs and education, parents, and high school and college students. The council developed the present set of guidelines designed to define the role of the school in drug education and…

This paper reviews the neighborhood school concept, an idea which has been discussed and debated in America for 200 years. According to the paper, historically, the neighborhood school has lost its position as a viable means of carrying out the necessary educational functions. At the same time, the neighborhood school concept has been used as a…

From the narrow point of view, the use of schools is limited almost entirely to the academic learning of young people. School buildings are usually closed after the required work of youngsters and teachers is completed, and adults with educational needs do not have an opportunity to take classes or engage in other activities during the evening.…

This paper critiques past research which studied the effects of schools and their resources on student achievement and argues for a different approach to gauging the effects of schooling. (Author/RM)

The staff of Wisconsin's Cooperative Educational Service Agency Number Eight has developed a Drug Prevention Education Program that operates under the premise that drug abuse is a "people problem" and people who have problems with drugs are people with personal problems--the symptom is drug abuse. (Author)