Education & Pedagogy

The use of community resources in teaching consumer education provides teachers who are inherently interesting to students. Combining community resources with an experiential approach will encourage students to discover principles and develop reasoning skills important to consumer education. (JOW)

Describes development of K-12 aerospace education materials. The ninth-grade component, adopted as a pilot program, consists of four parts: history, applications (principles of flight, weather, navigation), spin-offs of research, and careers/organizations. Program evaluation results are reported. (JN)

The extent and status of peer education programs at selected secondary schools around the United States were studied. Objectives of these programs, recruitment and training of leaders, curriculum, educational activities, and evaluation are reported. (PP)

Discusses the philosophical and methodological bonds that exist between ethnography, educational criticism, and naturalistic evaluation. Naturalistic evaluation is ideally suited for exploring many areas of art education, including art learning, aesthetic experience, teacher-student transactions, and art program impact. (Author/CS)

Discusses the educational philosophy of John Dewey and suggests that he has more to contribute to the concept of lifelong education than might be supposed and that he ought to be afforded a more prominent place in lifelong education. (JOW)

Focuses upon the relationship between Paulo Freire's ideas and radical community education as a way of assessing the degree to which Freire's work may be applicable to western societies in general. (JOW)

Describes a course for use in basic business and consumer economics that can be delivered by computer. The lessons merge economic concepts and consumer economics principles, resulting in a conceptual approach to basic business and consumer economics education. (JOW)

Describes the use of a problem-solving approach to assist special needs students in conceptualizing safety rules so that safety rule use will be applied in the vocational shop environment. (JOW)

Provides background on the job club process and how it can be used for integrated training of special needs and regular education students in need of job search assistance. Includes field test project information. (JOW)

Describes the role of private teachers in colonial America, including evening schools and literacy education, costs of instruction, basic writing and arithmetic curriculum, evening schoolhouses, and schoolmasters' characteristics. Newspaper advertisements served as primary sources for the study. (SK)

Increasing enrollments in elementary and secondary schools and declining enrollments in teacher education programs threaten the nation's supply of teachers for the near future, especially in the South and West. (GC)

Discusses the implications of the multimodal or BASIC ID Model for education. Reviews the importance of imagery to learning and suggests how educators might better use mental imagery for enhancing academic achievement. (JAC)

Agrees with the preceding author's call for involvement of educational researchers in teacher education. Otherwise, disputes Joyce's claim to be calling for "radical" changes in teacher education, arguing that many of proposed changes have already been endorsed by national associations in the field of teacher education. (CMG)

The major goal of the National Building Museum (Washington, DC) is to develop a more enlightened citizenry through information and communication about buildings in the United States. Specific activities of the museum are described. (RM)

Aesthetic perception must be taught if we expect students to use it. Within a given society, the creators and viewers of art are socialized to more or less agreed upon aesthetic codes and conventions. (Author/RM)