Education & Pedagogy

Individualizing of instruction for prospective elementary teachers should help these teachers to individualize mathematics instruction for their students and thus better prepare these children for vocational courses and a more self-directed life in the world of work. (Author)

Reviews the problems of the present front-end'' load or education of individuals in their pre-productive years; some disorganized elements of a recurrent education system in the present emerge, but ways of connecting these elements remain a challenge. (DM)

Focus is upon environmental education programs at four-year liberal arts colleges and universities. They range from schools devoting their entire programs to environmental education to a program or department added to the overall curriculum. Strengths and weaknesses of programs are described. (BL)

Article lists the major factors inhibiting the progress of adult education and calls upon all educators to do whatever is in their power to help adults meet their basic educational needs now and in the future. (GB)

Because of the importance of career education to the future of today's handicapped and normal children, parents, businessmen, and others who are sensitive to the needs of the community should be involved in comprehensive career education programs. (Author)

Three surveys were conducted in twenty-three Midland primary schools during the spring terms of 1965, 1968 and 1971 in order to examine teacher attitudes to both religious and moral education. (Author/RK)

This is the second of a two-part report on continuing education, focusing on what universities and scientific and technical societies are doing to help scientists keep up to date. For Part 1, see the May 13, 1974 issue. (DT)

This article is one of a series of commentaries and special features on educational development that will be presented in American Education over the next several months in connection with the observance of the American Revolution Bicentennial. (Editor/RK)

Author considered what we have in the way of institutions and services which fall within the concept of life-long education and described briefly each of six possible groupings that could contribute to conceptualization of life-long education. (Author/RK)

Article considered six developments in the Thai educational system that represented the directions which the educational system is taking and helped to form a distinct image of Thai education. (Author/RK)

In this article the first principles of an educational policy for the European Community, formulated for the Commission of the European Communities, are discussed, including likely areas for cooperative effort such as language, degrees, permanent education, and furthering the concept of European Community education. (JH)

An issue dedicated to the educational writings of Mao Tse-Tung includes Mao's sayings on educational revolution as well as materials compiled during the Great Leap Forward which provide an ideological foundation for any study of education in contemporary China. (Author/KM)

The Business and Office Career Education Curriculum plan is discussed. Procedures for implementing the project are: identification and review of relevant curriculum materials; identification and development of curriculum materials to fill existing instructional system gaps; revision of existing materials; field testing of materials; and dissemination of findings. (SC)

An interview of Alice Murton, one of the pioneers of English informal education, and a director of the National Froebel Foundation in London; her work as infant teacher, headmistress, and HMI spanned some 50 years. (Author/JM)

The teaching procedures and class activities used in a consumer economics and law course at Taft High School, Los Angeles, California, are briefly discussed. The relevance of consumer education is commented on. A bibliography of resource materials is provided. (RM)