The only feasible path to a truly critical pedagogy is the destruction of the university. Before teachers and students ever arrive in the classroom, they have certain "places" within a blind, faceless institution which mark them in ways which must somehow be overcome for a truly critical pedagogy to develop. Analyzing how these roles are…

Twice a year the Steering Group of EURYDICE, the Education Information Network in the European Community (EC), holds meetings that offer leading educational policymakers the chance to inform their colleagues of the major changes in education policy in their respective member states since the previous meeting. While not an exhaustive or official…

To understand the elusive nature of the community college, one must understand the process of assimilation that constantly reshapes its mission. Assimilation refers to the process of identifying educational solutions to ever-emerging, broad-based social issues and problems and incorporating these solutions into the community college's mission as…

Like many other newly independent countries of the Third World, Botswana, at independence in 1966, sought strictly utilitarian uses of education to train manpower for modernization. By the mid-1970s, however, the country had assumed a more humane development ideology, promising economic equality, democracy, and social justice. The policy of…

Recommendations for the administration of preschool education in Kenya are suggested in this issue paper by the Director of Basic Education, Ministry of Education, Kenya. After a brief introduction depicting the general development of preschool education in this country and a statement of the objectives of and rationale for preschools, discussion…

Based on data gatered from interviews, observations, and document reviews during a 3-year qualitative examination of curriculum change projects in 14 elementary, junior, and senior high schools, this paper argues that the spread of new classroom practices within a school beyond a core committee of planners is determined by the orgaanizational…

The great changes in the educational level and opportunities for Soviet women since the revolution are described. (DE)

Evidence from an investigation of Australian adolescents in school is used to clarify the concept of alienation which has been used to describe students' attitude to school. Article further considered the role of the student and the role of the worker, the world of school and the world of work. (Editor/RK)

Cracking school statistics records has come to be "old hat" for education, but signs are out that record-breaking years are numbered. (Editor)

The author discusses the status of women in tropical Africa and the possible contributions of adult education towards strengthening it. (Author)

Discusses the problem (facing institutions of higher technical education) of maintaining continuing programs of institutional growth and providing for future development while meeting maintenance and operational costs. (MLH)

The article presents extracts and summaries from the UNESCO preliminary draft recommendation to Member States concerning the development of adult education, and, in anticipation of confirmation by the 1976 General Conference (with profound consequences for adult education predicted), it outlines steps to be taken by adult educationists before the…

Five major institutional patterns that have characterized the development of an institution are identified and discussed: (1) democratization, (2) centralization of decisionmaking over research and development funds, (3) legitimation of development and implementation activities, (4) growth, and (5) entrenchment. (Editor/PG)

This laboratory training model developed out of the observed difficulties students were having in bridging the gap between classroom and the field. Describes methods, techniques, structure and evaluation of two laboratories, set up as a neutral setting for students to practice their communication skills. (Editor/PG)