Education & Pedagogy

The receptivity across a university faculty to the role changes associated with continuing education is examined. Respondents evaluated the importance of a set of role behaviors. Application of multiple discriminant analysis to these ratings identified agreement on several basic values. (Author/MLW)

Action that must be taken if art museums are to achieve educational excellence is discussed. Five areas in a museum's operations where decisions and actions are most likely to produce excellence in object-centered education in art museums are examined. (RM)

The primary function of museums is to help museum visitors appreciate and understand what they see. Specific means and methods are suggested, e.g., informative and suggestive labels and a sales desk where the visitor can purchase reminders of what he or she has seen. (RM)

Examines what higher educational institutions and education programs in industry provide as international training, focusing on the situation in Switzerland. Also provides information on what the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experiences is doing for engineering students worldwide. (JN)

Presents a course design model for secondary level environmental education programs in Scotland. Explains program components, procedural approaches, and assessment strategies. Included are tables with course objectives and topic checklists. Suggestions for modifications and applications of the model are given. (ML)

Describes collaborative efforts between teacher education institutions and state departments of education in three states: Virginia, Illinois, and Minnesota. Projects include noncredit teacher workshops, series of needs assessments, technical updating of teachers, and internal staff development activities for teacher educators. (CT)

Virginia's response to criticism dealing with teacher education programs has been to establish cut-off scores on the National Teachers Examination and to develop a provisional certification for all beginning teachers. These changes in teacher certification regulations are discussed. (DF)

The reconstructionists have raised a number of questions and made specific proposals for improving the process of social education as currently practiced. In particular, their ideas concerning ideology, indoctrination, relativism, and social welfare should be studied. (RM)

Describes a two-part, computer-generated correspondence course designed to help preservice elementary and secondary teachers teach concepts of career education and economic awareness. Also describes how the course is designed to meet the needs of individual students. (JN)

Reviews the proposals of Paul DeHart Hurd for improving science education in elementary schools, while ensuring that it is compatible with the goals of Catholic education. Suggests relating science to life situations, exploring broad applications of the scientific method, and making science instruction a process of discovery. (DMM)

Examined how six states provide educational services to students with special needs. Focuses on program models, requirements, financial support, and control mechanisms. Contrasts state approaches to the federal approach to providing services to similar populations. (GC)

An annotated bibliography is provided on sources of information about the history of physical education and health education. It contains references to books, journal articles, dissertations, and conference papers about historical research in general and about the history of the fields concerned. (PP)

Reviews attempts to achieve curricular relevance in schools in Third World countries and reasons for their limited success. Also explores role of environmental education in placing the school in its own local community and the real socio-economic environment that surrounds it, focusing on the role issue-based environmental studies. (JN)

Argues that a contemporary approach to general education should include the concept of uncertainty, to prepare students for a world in which uncertainty will be a recurrent and major fact. Sees the study of statistics and statistical thinking as a possible model for introducing uncertainty. (DMM)

Thirty physicians' perceptions of their rates of prescribing an antianxiety drug were found to differ from their actual rates. When informed of this discrepancy, significant changes in prescribing behavior occurred. Implications for continuing medical education are discussed. (MSE)