Education & Pedagogy

The Career Business Skills Program objective is to establish an educational program capable of producing employable graduates who possess those skills, knowledges, and attitudes necessary to enter and make progress in an entry-level position in an office career. (BP)

The cooperative scheme at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for seven years has been turning out academically-minded technicians for industry, and competent teachers for industrial education. (Author/AJ)

This essay is a reply to James Carpenter's "Thomas Jefferson and the Ideology of Democratic Schooling." In it, I argue that there is an apophatic strain in the essay that calls into question the motivation for the undertaking.

Documents four kinds of discrimination against women in education, examines the evidence pointing up the discrimination, and offers a program for women in education to correct discriminatory practices. (Author/DN)

Overviews the recent movement toward career education within continuing education at the higher educational level, addressing the needs of Black people and particularly those of mature Black women in a college setting. (Author/JM)

Discusses discrimination on the basis of sex in public and private school athletics. Writer concludes that such discrimination is violative of Fourteenth Amendment guarantees but also of the provisions within Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Several timely factors which were considered in the development of the Outdoor Education and Farm Demonstration Center (Green Chimneys School, Brewster, New York) and the nearby Edwin Gould Outdoor Education Center are discussed. (Author/KM)

Presents the discussion held in January 1973 between representatives of the University of Leeds and 4 of its Colleges of Education, concerning the University Institute, improvements in educational programs, im provements in staff qualifications, and academic relations. (Author/PG)

Presents the conditions for promoting a nonviolent social order (participation, freedom, justice, distribution of wealth, and cultural life) and how changes in the method, structure and content of education can help to attain this nonviolent order. (PG)

Our continuing education must include learning to design the future, planning transition steps, and undertaking social action so that theory and practice are tied together. (Author)

As expanding Illinois vocational education programs require more and better personnel, the development of functional public policy warrants more critical consideration. Aspects of planning, problems, policy needs, goal development, interest convergence, and new alternatives are discussed in relation to personnel development. (EA)

The Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education has applied the change strategy of commitment, resources, and organizational structure in the planning, implimentation, and improvement of vocational education personnel and curriculum development in the State. (EA)

Addresses, symposia, study groups, and a film, all related to the conference theme of adult education and community needs, are briefly recounted by a conference participant. (AJ)

Internship and inservice training, traditional continuing education approaches for media, library, and information specialists, are being supplemented by simulation of community contexts within which principles of lifelong learning can be applied. One such simulation is briefly described. (Author/AG)

The article discusses the interrelated processes of science, education, and production and stresses the need for their simultaneous and harmonious development. The historical development of education which accompanies a scientific revolution is analyzed. (RM)