TO TEST THE EFFECT OF VIDEO TAPED SIMULATED INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCES ON THE MODIFICATION OF TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES, THREE GROUPS OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS WERE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPOSED TO SPECIALLY PREPARED TAPES ON FOUR TOPICS. EACH 30-MINUTE TAPE CONSISTED OF SIMULATED CLASSROOM SETTINGS, WITH THE LAST 10 MINUTES USED AS A…

The Educational Values Assessment (EVA) is an instrument to determine the educational values of individuals and groups. It focuses on the beliefs people have about what is educationally important for the child of elementary or junior high school age. The questionnaire taps 80 different school issues, e.g., special programs for drug abuse, the…

Americans of Japanese ancestry rank higher than any other physically identifiable subgroup on positive attributes and lowest on negative ones. The thesis of this paper is that their success depends more on the value orientations that differentiate the two groups than upon those held in common. Data were obtained from a survey of 2200 pupils…

Universities contain powerful blocs of resistance to new educational technology, perhaps especially to television. University attitudes and structures as well as faculty ignorance, apathy, and resistance affect the development of cable television. No one seems to speak with great confidence and precision about the educational potential of cable.…

Working on the assumption that teacher educators should develop attitudes in education majors that are consistent with the philosophy of most educators today, this study tried to ascertain if there is a change in attitudes in the direction of accepted educational philosophy as a result of taking the course "Introducti to Teaching." The course at…

The Career Development Project formulated this resource lesson guide. The fifth volume is devoted to four objectives leading to four life-time targets: appreciation-attitudes leading to social self fulfillment; decision making leading to career decisions, educational awareness leading to educational identity, and employability leading to career…

One of the main purposes of the program reported herein was to reduce the academic and attitudinal problems of the underachieving high school pupils and to give them the responsibility for producing similar changes in the elementary pupils. The purpose of this evaluation was to determine to what extent the program had been successful. Because of…

A discussion of life-long education, specifically a quest for it, is presented. The attitude of the student at 20 toward education and knowledge is described. A discussion of adult education in building a better world is focused upon. Political currents and the need for social change are also discussed. It is concluded that only an evolution in…

A sample of 30 male and 124 female prospective teachers were given a battery of inventories prior to teacher training. Included in this battery was a 300-item Educational Opinion Inventory (EOI). On the day immediately following the administration of each inventory, each subject taught a 40-minute lesson to 20 to 30 secondary school students.…

The rates at which men and women attend graduate and professional school were compared in a large national sample of college seniors followed up a year after graduation. Women attended less often, even women with very high grades. Women were particularly underrepresented in law and medicine. When the attendance rates of individuals who had planned…

Discussed are seven pedagogical myths of environmental education. The myths include ecology and outdoor education are synonymous with environmental education, humanism is equated with student autonomy, students are natural investigators, science can resolve environmental problems, only science teachers successfully teach environmental education,…

The New Jersey Education Association will be 125 years old on December 28, 1978. This issue of the "NJEA Review" begins a four-part series on the history of the organization. (Editor/RK)

The UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) education director reviews organized labor's attitude toward career education and suggests a number of cooperative activities in which labor unions could and should be involved in making career education policy. (MF)

Provides an excellent assessment of the "state of the art" of multicultural education. Views it as evolving and maturing in three identifiable stages and argues for Stage 111 that requires conceiving it as "process" rather than "product". (Editor/RK)

Science is foremost among the factors that affect the welfare and social change of all people. Discusses the contribution of science to society, its place in education, including different areas of the curriculum, and some social implications of science study. (Author/RK)