Education & Pedagogy

Teacher educators, noneducators, futurists, and nonfuturists rated the desirability of 17 position statements concerning a wide range of issues in teacher education. The variations in responses among the four groups of respondents are analyzed. (JN)

Presents possible strategies which all countries can use to develop a national environmental education plan. Provides information on background factors to consider and a general planning and management process for developing such a plan. Proposes a plan for the United States. (DC)

Discusses the role of management in achieving environmental health and the need for a core of general environmental education courses in college programs aimed at producing urban managers and environmental health officers. Identifies three subgoals of environmental health: social order, visual order, and psychological order. (DC)

Argues that professional education for librarians must have three qualities related to the consequent quality of professional practice, i.e., professional formation consists of these elements: (1) general education; (2) training for professional competence; and (3) the additional skills needed in managerial positions. (Author/LLS)

A framework for analyzing the difficulties inherent in educational change is provided with examples drawn from medical education. The analysis is based on the discrepancy-opportunity model reported by Rotem and Glasman. The propositions stemming from this model suggest interventions and strategies for the development of medical education. (Author/MLW)

The early history of physical education for women in the northeastern section of the United States is presented. Short biographies of notable contributors, both men and women, to the expansion of physical education programs, first in womens colleges, and later in coeducational institutions, are presented. (JN)

A course in the history of education introduced into a doctoral program for future administrators and planners at the University of Kentucky illustrates the potential contribution of liberal arts disciplines to graduate preparation for the professions. (Editor/LBH)

It is the province of all educators to effectively deal with drug abuse on the highest level possible, "preventive resolution." A cogent drug education program, factorally suited to age-education, developmental and cultural variables and longitudinally implemented throughout a community educational system, is the preventive resolution. (Author)

Traces contribution to teaching effectiveness and curriculum design, occurring since 1950, and presents a format for modifying the developments made in other disciplines to aerospace education. Included is an example of an inquiry lesson dealing with parachutes. (SL)

Lists selected bibliographic references to works dealing with the aims, structure, nature, curriculum, problems, and issues of comparative education from an international perspective. Included are general works, monographs, single-country studies, educational histories, documentary collections, theoretical works, periodicals, reference works, bibliographies, and collections of papers. (Author/DB)

Briefly describes the educational systems of Western Europe as essentially similar despite a few variations. Comments on the economic support provided for education, the structures and clienteles of the various systems from elementary school through higher education, and the range and content of the curricula offered. (PGD)

From the results of this study it can be concluded that teachers ranked the 12 inservice education topics differently on the basis of importance, knowledge, and application. (SSH)

As society ages, changes in education will include: the development of educational services for older people; the preparation of qualified personnel to serve the elderly; the education of the public about the processes of aging; and the acceleration of efforts to expand and deepen the knowledge base about aging. (MLW)

The analysis of citations is valuable in identifying the core research literature in a particular field. Information on citation patterns and the intrajournal communication networks in the field of medical education are reported. The patterns of citations in the "Journal of Medical Education" were studied. (MLW)

The success of public education is threatened by retrenchment and a decline in public confidence in the schools. Schools must improve their capacity and image, but an understanding of the linkage between public education and a free, upwardly mobile society is a necessary basis for greater support. (MJL)