Education & Pedagogy

Local schools, teacher education institutions, and other state agencies have recognized the advantages of the network concept and have moved toward relying on the state IGE network structures. (MM)

Discussion covers literature education needs, the principle underlying the selection of artistic works for the literature course, the system for the study of artistic work, and content and structure of the literature course. (ND)

Reviews the educational problems of the French-speaking minority in Ontario, Canada, and illustrates the role that education can play in maintaining and enhancing the culture of a small linguistic minority. (Author)

The outlook for the Open University is examined with regard to growth factors, new jobs for graduates, trends in the United Kingdom towards mass higher education, and transferability and collaboration. (LBH)

The didactic instructional component of acquiring clinical pharmacokinetics knowledge and skills is addressed and a topic outline for a course on the subject at Wayne State University is given. (LBH)

The Center for Career Education is an independent unit of the university responsible to the provost. A Career Education Council made up of representatives of each School of the University and of community organizations develops goals, establishes policy, reviews programs, and serves as liaison with appropriate campus units. (MS)

Author makes the point that there is a need for a comparative perspective with which to develop and refine effective prescriptions in education. He suggests that comparative education can provide for this need. (Author/RK)

An extension of material contained in Chapter 4 of the book, "Benefits, Cost, and Finance of Public Higher Education (Chicago: Markham Publishing Co., 1969).

ACS Graduate Education Panel recommends: (a) that new graduate programs should be developed to augment traditional programs. (b) that new Ph.D. granting departments should be established only if a need exists and they can be adequately financed. (DS)

This article discusses the future role of education in society, as well as the role of society and government in education. More open enrollment is seen as a blessing requiring new concepts of teaching, counseling and financing. (CJ)

Suggests conservation education may have failed because it was taught as part of science, not in an integrated curriculum, and by placing children in wildlands or nature centers, instead of considering their real environments. Alternative integrated approaches are suggested. Definitions of environmental education are offered. (AL)

A study to ascertain how physicians evaluate their own training and knowledge of human sexuality and their ability to treat their patients' sexual problems showed a neglect of the subject in the formal medical education curriculum. (IR)

Describes a recent innovative pilot project in teacher education wherein undergraduate education students were offered experiences expanding their concept of the dynamics of child development and of their perceptions of self and their own roles. (JM)

Workshop titles are: (1) "Authenticity in Communication ; (2) "Inter Cultural Communication ; (3) "Enticements to Eupsychia ; (4) "Psychoneurosensory Problems in Education ; (5) "Why Education for Family Life and Human Sexuality ; and (6) "Communication in the Hazards of Drug Abuse . (EK)

Describes experimental Driver and Traffic Safety Education Center--a project involving a five-phase instructional program, a variety of teaching innovations, and a specially-constructed facility which includes a classroom building, multiple car driving range, simulators, communications equipment, and the most recent electronic teaching devices. (JS)