Education & Pedagogy

This article examines a number of chronic disease health education studies. The authors suggest that there is a need to reevaluate the assumptions that underlie health education and a need in health education programs to study factors other than, or in addition to, behavior change as mediators of health status. (Author/CT)

This article addresses one instance in which "a marriage" between commerce and education would be very appropriate. The author discusses the advantages of the print medium, and of the newspaper in particular, in education, and shows how this could be used very effectively in adult education. (Author/CT)

The academic discipline of physical education never materialized into an identifiable set of laws or theories. It has been more convenient to dabble in the parent disciplines raising the question of whether graduate programs in physical education are so fragmented that extermination is the most appealing managerial alternative. (MT)

Many say that the functions of education are skill development, socialization, and sorting. These objectives are contrasted with the four objectives for higher education that Lord Robbins included in his 1963 report: instruction in skills, promotion of general powers of the mind, advancement of learning, and transmission of common standards of citizenship. (RM)

Preservice elementary teachers need to be introduced to computer use first and then applications should be integrated across the curriculum. A program of computer education for elementary school teachers and computer specialists is presented. (MNS)

Schools of education, whose responsibility is to add skills in teaching to a student's repertoire, cannot remedy inadequacies in basic academic training. The California State University system is developing initiatives regarding student selection and knowledge and practice of teaching in order to improve its teacher education programs. (MT)

Results of a summer training seminar for elementary art teachers showed that students taught by teachers trained in aesthetic education demonstrate a measurable increase in their sensitivity to aesthetic stimuli. The seminar is described and the evaluation results are discussed. (RM)

Central California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Fresno Unified School District cooperate to promote teacher education and use of SPCA materials in the classrooms. Timing, key persons, building/maintaining contact, teacher involvement, and mutual understanding, which have been important in this productive partnership, are addressed. (DH)

Twenty-four students who had participated in an open education program and their parents were interviewed with a structured questionnaire designed to elicit attitudes toward and evaluations of their open education experience. Responses indicated that students and parents understood the program goals and felt they had been achieved. (JHZ)

This article illustrates the flexibility and appropriateness of computer networks as an instructional resource for developing basic economic education programs for students with varying characteristics (e.g., public school students, home-bound adults, university-based students, and other adults, etc.). (CT)

Regular and special education supervisors were studied to determine important aims for education, types of issues focused on in practice, how beliefs related to these issues, and how socialization influenced selection of supervisory issues. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Investigates minimum program standards established by all 50 state education agencies for preparation and certification of elementary school teachers. Results reveal a startling diversity about program requirements (general education versus professional education) likely to contribute to the development of excellent elementary school teachers. (RH)

The author states that this is the time for the reform of teacher education. It is not a time to abandon teacher education by providing certification to nontrained teachers. It really is a time for the nation and each state to pay for quality teacher education. (CT)

Early in 1952, Allen P. Britton and Warren S. Freeman submitted an article to the "Music Educators Journal" proposing the establishment of a research journal for music education. The history of the subsequent "Journal of Research in Music Education" is described. (RM)

Instead of the random scattershot of the core curriculum, a program of overlapping curricular circles could provide students with a more effective educational experience. Each circle would center on the student's major, and would draw together the underlying strands of a liberal education. (MSE)