Education & Pedagogy

Teachers of courses preparing teachers of driver education report a follow-up study which revealed that students have a better appreciation of a course after they have actually used the knowledge obtained. (Editor/LBH)

How a teacher exchange program was instituted in the fall semester of 1975 between two institutions in St. Joseph, Missouri--the Department of Secondary Education at Missouri Western State College and the Department of Social Studies at Central High School. (HD)

Crises of education in the third world are identified and skills that will be needed in societies of the future are specified. A case history of education in colonial and postcolonial India is presented. (Author/DB)

Maintains that education should be a transmission of creativity rather than a package of attitudes and ready-made solutions. The advantages of a universal language and common values are stressed. Specific suggestions for achieving these goals are offered. (Author/DB)

Reports on nine issues that the National Society for the Study of Education agreed were crucial to education today and should be included in their yearbook on secondary education. Some of the conclusions of the yearbooks authors were also presented. (Editor/RK)

Legislative and innovative milestones in the historical development of pharmaceutical education from the nineteenth century to the present day are discussed by the assistant dean of the College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at the Medical Center. (LBH)

The centrality of education to society is examined with reference to the free man and the duties of citizenship. As an instrument of society, education is an expression of the prevailing forces and values of that society. (LBH)

Examination of the prestige of the vocational education teacher occupation relative to that of college professor and public school teacher indicates that it is slightly less prestigious than they but more prestigious than most other occupations examined. (MS)

A mini-company formed by the students and teachers of a three hour block of office education provides on the job experience as a method of improving office skills for twelfth graders at Fulton High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. (AG)

The development of the Malaysian national educational system is described. An outline of the vocational component of the system is presented with an evaluation of descrepancies between output of the formal educational system and the manpower requirements of the economy. (KM)

A report on nonformal education for rural development is extracted. The portions of the study presented discuss nonformal education in regard to providing information and guidelines to assess needs, planning effective and economic programs, developing means to strengthen the programs, and defining methods of participation by external agencies. (KM)

Although Japan's 19th century feudalistic education system was abolished at the close of World War II and the country has wrought the greatest economic miracle in world history, the Japanese still assign low priorities to health and medical education. (IR)

Urban youth need a basic understanding of the importance the agricultural industry plays in the economic and social structure of our nation. They need to have opportunities to participate in activities which awaken and develop an understanding of the need for natural beauty in their surroundings. (Author)

Approximately 80 percent of the vocational agriculture teachers, high school administrators, teacher educators, and state supervisors of agricultural education indicated a need for teacher aides in vocational agriculture in response to a national survey. Duties of aides are outlined and a preservice education program is recommended. (DM)

Teaching has high aspiration for professional status. Many of the characteristics of a profession are typical of teaching. However, there is little that a teacher must know, or do, or have as a characteristic apart from knowledge of subject matter which he teaches. (Author)