Education & Pedagogy

Contemplating the question Can we be both equal and excellent in adult education?'' lead to the conclusion that no conflict need exist because the terms have no absolute meaning--only different sets of meanings which are relative to those defining them and to certain historical, situational, institutional, cultural and social factors. (Author/SA)

Results indicated that members of the American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHPER) Council were divided into 3 partially overlapping interest groups, each group having some individual and some shared attitudes toward the meaning of outdoor education. (CH)

Abstracts of doctoral and masters' theses are presented in the following categories: accounting, administration, automation, bookkeeping, communications, distributive education, economics, general business, guidance, higher education, materials of instruction, methods of instruction, office education, philosophy, prognosis, secretarial training, shorthand, survey of business, survey of graduates, survey of schools, survey of students, survey of teachers, teacher education, typewriting. (GR)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic are included. (Author)

Presents the premise that conditions on the job are much more significant to physics teachers than preservice education. Believes that a reorientation of the student to the teacher's role is the goal of preservice education. Situations should be presented so students experience the role of the teacher. (TS)

Describes a seminar in adult education held by Dr. Alan Knox, Professor of Adult Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, at the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, Long Island. The objective was to increase the participants' competence in the development of informal educational programs for adults. (Author/DR)

Data are presented from interviews with engineering management and a questionnaire survey in 1968. Included are recommended college courses, non-degree courses taken in continuing education, important course areas, demands of present job, factors contributing to promotion, and attitudes toward and reasons for continuing education. (TS)

Describes a strategy for development and implementation of a comprehensive environmental education program (K-12) which can be integrated into existing curriculum of a school. Environmental encounters" stressed as meaningful approaches to goal achievement. Philosophy of spaceship earth" is fundamental to the program. (LK)

It may be that teacher education offers a more valuable index of national development than the school system, for teachers' colleges normally mirror a society's ideological and structural features in detail, and their recruitment often reflects its avenues of opportunity and achievement. (Author)

Considerable impetus for educational planning and development in Western Europe has sprung from such multinational organizations as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OEDC), the Council of Europe, and the European Community. In European Community,'' n 154 p22-23 Mar 1972, the European Community summarizes what it considers to be its principal contributions to education. (Editor)

Reviews the characteristics of end-on" and concurrent" teacher education programs for science teachers, reviews the characteristics of good" teacher education programs, and describes the main features of an English teacher education project that is about to be tested in Australia. (AL)

Schools exist to prepare non-adults and adults for various functions in the community. The five aims discussed here are: (a) duties of a citizen, (b) professional work, (c) participation in social life, (d) private life, (e) organization of leisure. (JB)

This paper provides an overview of key policy developments in education, training, and employment in Lebanon. The paper contains sections that review the country's key demographic and economic characteristics; education and training trends, challenges, and policy; and labour market and employment trends, challenges, and policy.

This paper provides an overview of key policy developments in education, training, and employment in Ukraine. The paper contains sections that review the country's key demographic and economic characteristics; education and training trends, challenges, and policy; and labour market and employment trends, challenges, and policy.

This paper provides an overview of key policy developments in education, training, and employment in Morocco. The paper contains sections that review the country's key demographic and economic characteristics; education and training trends, challenges, and policy; and labour market and employment trends, challenges, and policy.