Education & Pedagogy

Discusses how parents have developed parenting skills in the past, the changing family structure, the effects of inadequate skills, the role of adult education, practical implications for adult educators, and the best settings for adult education programs. (CT)

Self-determination and community control of education as envisioned in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 have been severely compromised, the author maintains. Flaws in the law and its administration are discussed. (MT)

The current national criticism of teacher education and teachers should have the effect of worsening the expected teacher shortage by convincing more young people not to enter teaching. The author proposes substantive solutions to increase both the quality and quantity of teachers. (MT)

Examines the challenges the new immigration presents to the public schools. Offers successful responses to these challenges and identifies positive contributions which may result from recent immigration trends. (JDH)

The preparation of prospective teachers to use manipulatives in the classroom involved three dimensions. Each of these dimensions is discussed within the context of the elementary and early childhood teacher education program at Pennsylvania State University. (JN)

Enrollment trends in secondary and higher education in Australia are examined for indications of the direction and possible need for redirection of higher education policy and institutional planning. (MSE)

Medical education has offered limited assistance to the medical student encountering death for the first time. Courses on the social and psychological aspects of dying in medical school curricula are examined. (MLW)

Two issues related to dental health policy are examined: the contribution of dental education to the process by which dental health policy is established, and the nature of dental education's response to established policies. (MLW)

The article analyses Board v. Rowley's meaning for "appropriate" education and justifies the rightness of that decision in terms of its impact on the education of the child and the integration of children who have disabilities with children who do not. (Author/CL)

Four educators agree the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) should ensure quality of teacher education, change and quantify standards, and increase its power. They oppose both NCATE accreditation of state departments of education instead of education programs and standardized teacher preparation programs. (PB)

Discusses student constituencies, general education programs, institutional niches, and general education and niche expansion. Makes suggestions for ways in which foreign language study might be subtly unavoidable in general education. (BK)

Takes stock of current achievements and problems in the Soviet educational system. Identifies issues of the present decade, including lowering the school-starting age; strengthening preschool education; and improving educational facilities, curriculum, textbooks, assessment, and labor training. (Author/WD)

Presents suggestions to help the elementary art teacher work with moderately mentally retarded students. The authors emphasize the need to offer a wide variety of experiential activities which reinforce special education training programs. Teachers must adapt their instructions to retarded students' limited capacities. (AM)

Describes the career and accomplishments of Jane Ellen McAllister and highlights her years at Southern University, Virginia State, Fisk University, Miner Teachers College, Grambling State University, and Jackson State College. Also evaluates McAllister's impact on Black education in general. (GC)

Disarmament education has been exposed to wider public attention because of the launching of the World Disarmament Campaign, an education effort intended to involve the world's citizens in thinking about disarmament. Factors important to this movement are discussed. (CJ)