Education & Pedagogy

Briefly describes Chinese higher education and bibliographic instruction in Chinese academic libraries. Problems with user education are identified, including the lack of instructors, adequate facilities and reference materials, and courses on user education in library schools. Suggestions for overcoming these problems are offered. (11 references) (CLB)

This article reports results of a study which tested Fuller's hypothesis that as experience is gained, prospective teachers become less concerned for self and more concerned for students' needs. Participants were 45 preservice physical educators and 45 inservice teachers. (IAH)

Data from questionnaires completed by 2,202 public school physical education teachers in 6 states was analyzed to determine the extent to which evaluation practices are being utilized in public school physical education programs and to identify the various types of grading procedures most commonly used. (IAH)

This article discusses the rationale for athletic trainer education and describes a degree option in physical education, exercise science and human performance, created at the University of Toledo. The human performance option includes a track which allows a concentration in athletic training. (IAH)

Points out that art education helps students learn problem solving. Discusses the concept of coaching and suggests expanding discipline-based art education (DBAE) which includes the ideas of content-curriculum-context to incorporate coaching into its theoretical base. (GG)

Explores the meaning of de-intellectualization relative to teacher education. Suggests that education is not yet properly understood either in philosophical or empirical terms. Notes that it is bound up with values and concepts as well as a number of practical and institutional difficulties and thus susceptible to fantasy and prejudice. (KO)

Contends that there is no clear vision of the purpose and function of schooling. Discusses the history of social studies education and identifies current problems. Points out that the primary purpose of education is no longer seen as the education of citizens. (KO)

The 422 Presidential Science Honorees (1980-86) participated in a Delphi study composed of two surveys regarding their professional reading patterns including science education journals, general education journals, science indexes, and general education indexes. Demographic information about the respondents is provided. (Author/YP)

A community education campaign is beginning to heighten public awareness of the pollution of air, water, and land resources in Nigeria. Research-based information has led to the development of printed educational materials, radio and television messages, and the establishment of a national Environmental Protection Agency. (SK)

Describes the lack of education of Black prison inmates. Discusses relative benefits and costs of educational programs to inmates and citizens. Provides seven examples of successful state-run programs and comments on the future possibilities for laws requiring educational programs for all inmates. (JS)

The recent large-scale expansion and contraction in West German higher education and its effects on higher education research efforts are described, and the new research needs emerging from these trends are noted. (MSE)

Although Congress now recognizes education as central to America's economic standing, education should also be supported to sustain democracy. Scholar R. Freeman Butts argues that civic learning is education's "prime purpose." Administrators should work to instill commitment to the common good so that America continues to select rational, humane leaders. (CJH)

The authors attempt to show that pure types exist upon which to fashion continuing education unit structures. They argue for a purposefully integrated, mixed model to benefit the multiprofessional institution and express the need for a dialogue devoted to the further exploration of this context. (CH)

Consists of 11 articles on the future of secondary agricultural education. Includes (1) models for agriscience/agribusiness instruction, (2) recommendations for dealing with change, (3) a global perspective, (4) perspective of land grant universities, and (5) role of the Future Farmers of America. (CH)

The author describes labor education in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The course system consists of three levels of courses, including (1) local short-term trade union courses, (2) regional permanent courses that last up to a month, and (3) seminars at the Trade Unionist Upgrading Institute. (CH)