This article traces quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) developments in Finnish compulsory schooling. The central question is this: Is there a Finnish model of QAE? We conclude that it may be a rhetorical overstatement to speak about a specific Finnish 'Model' of QAE in a strong sense. However, neither is it valid to conclude that what happens…

The article is concerned with step four in the process of developing a philosophy of business education--carefully delineating specific basic beliefs about business education and making certain these beliefs umbrella the various phases of business education at different educational levels. (Author/BP)

A few words (and films, records, tapes and projectuals) on getting harmony out of discord and preventing a collision of opposites. (Editor)

The author states: "Through his work an individual reveals himself and expresses himself as a person" and relates this understanding of work to career education. (AG)

Speech delivered as the principal address at the Des Moines AEA conference, November, 1968

Journal citations for the author's original argument and Esther R. Shaw's response to it are, respectively--(1) Educational Theory, v17 n1 p3-13 January 1967, and (2) Educational Theory, v18 n2 p 164-168 Spring 1968.

A philosophical criticism of some of the major views of educational evaluation is presented. In particular, it is argued that the major views have serious limitations that result from their lack of understanding of questions of value, especially ethical value. Current views of educational evaluation need to draw upon the philosophical writings on…

Seeking to augment previous accounts of Samuel Eliot Morison's life (1887-1976), the document considers Morison not only as historian and literary artist but also as educator. A prolific writer, Morison's main interest was naval history and his books, "Admiral of the Ocean Seas: A Life of Christopher Columbus" (1942) and "John Paul…

This report reviews the philosophical and practical basis of teacher tenure. The discussion includes tenure both at the elementary, secondary, and higher education levels. General observations are based on the same criticisms of tenure at every educational level. The major areas of study include the present situation, background of tenure,…

The monograph on open education examines educational alternatives and open education at the preschool, elementary, high school, and adult levels. Implications of open education are given to include the year round school schedule, increased use of community resources, the development of a new attitude toward student evaluation stressing individual…

Proliferation of factual data, an educational problem for some time, is a greater dilemma today due to the knowledge explosion. Facts are accumulating at an alarming rate. All too often teachers require students to learn irrelevant data (statement of facts) rather than learning to select, process, handle, interpret, employ, and organize data, and…

Our concepts about the nature of health are linked to concepts of the nature of man, which historically have been: natural evil (Middle Ages, Reformation), natural goodness (Age of Reason, 18th century), evolving (19th century) and aspiring (20th century). (MJB)

Discusses the areas of study with which philosophers should be involved, defines the difference between "is" and "ought" questions, and then states what philosophers "ought" to do in the post-industrial age. (RK)

The teacher's responsibility goes beyond teaching; it ranges into investigations of what peripheral acts are necessary to make teaching possible in individual and general cases, into counseling and perhaps feeding children, even into political action. What the "Theory of Erotetic Teaching" can do to resolve such issues is discussed. (MT)