Education & Pedagogy

The authors describe a summer workshop in rangeland management for vocational agriculture teachers in Utah, with extension agents from six western states as instructors to provide specialized knowledge and successful teaching methods. Success of this cooperation led to a joint extension agricultural and education research effort. (MF)

The feasibility of private liberal arts college involvement with adult and continuing education is examined in terms of a model, which sponsors an Employee Learning Program. Course offerings have received positive support from the college faculty and administration, cautious involvement by business and industry, and meager interest from organized labor. Emphasis is on life-coping skills. (Author/LBH)

Due to changes in labor market conditions for college graduates and under the pressure of career education, institutions of higher education are combining career counseling and job placement services in integrated career service centers. The Career Development and Placement Center of the Pennsylvania State University is described as an example of what has worked for this institution. (MF)

Offers a case study of the difficulties involved in associating teachers' college and university in teacher preparation through the device of joint appointment of professor-principal. The dual post, which was created in Melbourne in 1919, terminated in 1939 in an atmosphere in which the aims and ideals of university and State education department respectively were patently in conflict. (Editor)

Describes the formation of local organizations for adult and literacy education created all over Portugal after the end of the fascist regime in 1974, the coordination and certification plan of the Ministry of Education's Division of Continuing Education, and the ensuing legal status of the local "popular" educational associations. (MF)

Results of the investigation described in this paper support the hypothesis that there is no significant difference in the occupational competence of trade and industrial teacher education students using three different work experience combinations to meet South Dakota's certification standards for vocational teacher certification in trade and industrial education. (MF)

Guidance and counseling functions of secondary distributive education teacher-coordinators, members of the National Association of Distributive Education Teachers (NADET), and the teachers' perceptions of the importance of their role in guidance counseling are discussed from survey data. Conclusions include implications for in-service teacher-coordinator training. (MF)

Depicts the role of an internal Evaluation Section, which is responsible for compiling annual evaluation reports of the use of federal funds for compensatory education programs, in evaluating two programs--migrant programs and neglected/delinquent programs--funded under Title 1, Public Law 89-750. (Author/RK)

Education affects virtually everyone in a city. More than any other service provided by a municipality, education influences whether people decide to remain in or move from a city. The school system is often the bellwether of what the future will bring--deterioration, unrest, diminishing resources, or improvement and innovations. (Author/EB)

A group of community hospitals has been linked to the University of Southern California School of Medicine in a continuing medical education network. An educational development team based at the school helps community hospital physicians identify educational needs and develop responses using local and medical school experts as faculty. (Author/JMD)

A former university president argues that if education involves all of one's career and one's life--and all of society--we must rethink and plan educational systems to achieve lifelong learning. This requires new attitudes and new institutional structures alert to human hope as well as human needs. (Author/AF)

The process of program review as undertaken by the higher education institutions in Illinois is described. The role of the Illinois Board of Education, the individual institutions, and the governing boards are discussed as well as program characteristics compatible with the three-tiered structure of higher education administration in the state. (SF)

The options in the labor market for high school graduates, the demand for higher education, and the vocational education sector are explored by employing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972. Findings are detailed including post-high-school experiences (expected and actual). (Author/MLW)

Although it is difficult to quantify the contribution of the college years to work productivity, evidence shows that college does make a difference. It is suggested that the education-work productivity relationship needs to be strengthened through effective counseling, since skills are marketable if those who possess them know they are marketable. (MLW)

A study is reported that compares personality traits of higher education doctoral candidates with other doctoral programs and with normative populations. Personality characteristics are concluded to be important, and majors in higher education resemble more closely the desired characteristics of college administrators than those in the general population. (LBH)