This document includes a paper and a bibliography of ERIC abstracts on teaching the special child in mainstreamed classrooms. The paper presents five basic assumptions related to the teaching of young handicapped children, discusses principles of teaching special children which may be helpful to teachers working in mainstreamed classrooms, and…

This paper represents the opinions of two educators who are presently involved with investigations into competency-based education (CBE). It sets forth the assumptions underlying competency-based education that have been interpreted from statements in literature, from research reports, from observation, and from its proponents and opponents.…

The author discusses the need for both vocational and general education, according to educational philosophers and others, and reflects on the possible moral power of career education to alter the existing industrial society. (MF)

Describes the minimum conditions for creating the humanistic school. Humanism is based on principles that fall into three basic categories: a set of beliefs about self and the nature of social reality, a set of skills to be learned by teachers, administrators, and pupils, and a set of necessary conditions in the social system. (Author/RK)

The author examines nine commonly held beliefs concerning the value of physical activities and concludes that, while some may indeed be true, none are inherent to and develop of necessity from the activities themselves. (MJB)

Three aspects of equality as a social ideal are examined in relation to education: equal opportunity, equality of outcome, and access to a common curriculum. The discussion is related to the Karmel Report and the first two reports of the Australian Schools Commission. (Editor/RK)

Author argues that humanism and behaviorism are not necessarily exclusive of one another, and that principles of behaviorism, when thoughtfully applied, can lead to the achievement of humanistic goals. (RW)

Presents translations of six Russian language articles which highlight the relationship between Marxist philosophy and contemporary educational practice in the USSR. (JDH)

Legal education today focuses too narrowly on the profession itself, and fails to meet the larger obligation to probe the interrelationship of love and justice as well as the development of civic virtue and a sense of public duty. (MSE)

This paper focuses on the discrepancy the authors personally experienced between the stated principles of social research and experience with several applied social research projects over the last 10 years. Three cases of applied social research are presented and critiqued, and two types of structural problems were found. (Author/LMO)

The authors focus on that aspect of continuing education which follows the continuous period of formal study before entering main employment. They maintain that such education should not draw artificial boundaries between education and training, between vocational and general education, or between formal and informal systems of provision or…

Critiquing Wilson's and Cowell's article, "The Democratic Myth" (v17 p111-17), the author argues that there is a substantial body of knowledge on the idea of democracy outside educational philosophy, and that from that body of knowledge one can derive conclusions about attainment and performances appropriate for a democratic populace. (RM)

Identifies and explicates two basic principles of mastery teaching, then shows how an understanding of the principles can be used to provide answers to the major criticisms of mastery teaching. (FL)

How educational philosophers have explained, justified, and defined their field is discussed. Four periods are examined: the comparative period, 1942-1953; the transitional period, 1954-1957; the analytic period, 1958-1967; and the prospective period, 1968-1982. (RM)

Although a recent conference in Neusiedl-am-See, Austria, and others like it have encouraged the development through national education systems of an awareness of European cultural identity and "active cooperation and communication among Europeans," the realization of such a project remains largely to be accomplished. (JBM)