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Credit course, general cultural, and continuing professional education program descriptions provide a basic structure for an examination of the future of continuing education. A large population of the participants have already been educated, and suggestions for improved university organization regarding their continuing educational needs are made. (LH)
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Drawing on examples from England and Russia, the author discusses three issues involving politics and education: 1) what proportion of society's resources are to be allocated to education, 2) how and by whom shall this allocation be determined, and 3) should control be centralized or decentralized once resources are allocated. (Author/RM)
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The Swedish system of higher education is discussed in two reports. The first covers basic principles of governance and organization, and general problems of higher-educational planning. The second is about planning and management at regional and central levels. (Author/ND)
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An examination of the political context of adult education at a pragmatic level is presented. Topics include: four levels of decision making (employment of staff, program planning, student selection, and tutor and student relationship); less controversial areas; political neutrality; and politics and policy. (LH)
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The Center for Vocational Education at Ohio State University completed an 18-month study of jointly sponsored programs throughout the nation for adults who have not completed their high school education. Two programs emphasizing business skills and the five steps essential in the development of adult cooperative programs are discussed. (BP)
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Mandatory professional continuing education is discussed in terms of the public, the professions, educators, and individual professionals. Various approaches by university administrations, professional schools and associations, and the government are also examined to see that professional standards are maintained. (LH)
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The author examines state government leadership roles, major trends in state government, and the mutuality of interests of state governments and social work education noting implications for the profession through discussion of curriculum building and curriculum content. (Editor/JT)
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Career education is a plan to adapt our educational system so that every child develops fully into a capacitating, participating, contributing, and fulfilled human being. Schools, in order to achieve these ends, must develop eight characteristics which are discussed in the article. (Author/BP)
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Describes eight experimental courses in a series called the Man Series, instituted at Purdue University to improve the social dimensions of engineering education. Each course is team taught by engineering, humanities, and social science faculty members and is interdisciplinary in nature. (MLH)
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Presents definitions and understandings of moral education, surveys some historical techniques likely to yield starting points for work on a history of moral education, and examines John Locke's theory and practice of moral education. (Author/IRT)
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Perhaps a four-way partnership of state education departments, colleges, school districts, and teacher organizations will be able to design a respected and satisfying form of teacher training. (Author/IRT)
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Examines current federal legislation and current attitudes in Congress regarding aid to education, discusses the impact of educational spending on the overall economy, and considers prospects for a major increase in federal education aid in the near future. (JG)
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The variety of approaches to environmental education are discussed from the standpoint of the environmental education student (the non-science student, the environmentalist, the interdisciplinary approach, the generalist, and the graduate) and from the standpoint of the university (the degree, faculty, courses, and program orientation). (JT)
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Analyzes the present decline of the humanities finding three causes: facination of technological progress, rapid growth of vocational education, and the necessity of institutional survival. Defends the liberal arts as essential to a free society, prerequisites for a cohesive and self-governing group of people. (JT)
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This publication presents an annotated bibliography of some recent publications in the area of peace education. The document features seven volumes identified as seminal works in the field. In addition, six doctoral dissertations, four journal articles, and 16 additional sources for publications are described. (DB)