Education & Pedagogy

The Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States has as its primary goal the development of catalogs containing performance objectives and criterion-referenced measures in occupational education. Reducing duplication of efforts, sharing costs, improving content validity, and promoting performance-based instruction are among other objectives. (AJ)

The major purpose of this article is to elaborate on some of the philosophical, psychological, and evaluational questions that arise in an intentionally humanistic venture such as the preservice elementary program at the University of Florida, Gainesville. (PEB)

Because the concept of permanent or lifelong education postulates a basic reorganization of the British education system, the author suggests areas for innovation at the national, local, and political levels, as well as a new structure for all post-school education, but proposes a gradual reorientation rather than immediate radical change. (AJ)

Midwest Continuing Professional Education for Nurses (MCPEN), the only regional organization in the United States whose sole purpose is the promotion and development of continuing education in nursing, has directed its efforts to issues of: membership, recording/transferability, impact of continuing education, leadership, recognition, communication, and standardization. (EA)

Distributive education students from vocational clubs in New Jersey are working alongside elementary teachers to enhance the career education movement in elementary schools by developing units of instruction and classroom projects relating the elementary curriculum to the marketing and distribution occupational cluster. (SA)

Describes how Massachusetts is overhauling its approach to the education of handicapped children. Discusses how things used to be, the push for change, and a new Massachusetts law that assigns to local school districts the responsibility for special education. Explains how to get education legislation drafted and enacted. (Author/DN)

The principle task of the political information session, an important form of communist indoctrination in elementary and secondary grades, is to help pupils assimilate and gain a correct understanding of world events and political issues. Newspaper reading, supervised by a teacher, is the basic activity. (KM)

A method of organization of self-instructional units into tiers corresponding to different levels of advancement is described. This arrangement offers greatly increased flexibility in course design, determination of rate and depth of study by both student and teacher, and a resource for continuing education. (Editor)

In an interview (part of a series), Jon Fuller of the Office of Education maintains that education must be responsive to the student's individual needs, broaden his awareness of career alternatives, and ease the transition from secondary school to a job or to post-secondary training through effective counseling. (AG)

In presenting a model of four-year technical-vocational education, the author proposes that the extension of technical-vocational education in the community college could result in the better utilization of existing facilities while preparing a greater number of technicians to meet manpower needs. (Author/AG)

Illinois State University has done away with traditional courses in teacher education. The Professional Education Sequence (PES) is performance based and derived from an explicit conception of teacher roles. The teacher role consists of specified competencies formed in behavioral terms and expressed as objectives with explicit assessment possibilities. (JA)

Collection of research work in progress or recently completed regarding higher education in Canada, under the following headings: university government, university finance, university and the economy, curriculum and teaching, professional education, admissions, evaluating and grading, research and scholarship, students, professors and conditions of work, and nondegree granting institutions. (PG)

The address, delivered at the 27th All India Adult Education Conference, summarizes demographic data on the rural poor, their economic and social situation, and discusses land reform, technology, employment opportunities, and adult education as ways to eliminate rural poverty. Adult education promotes leadership development and community interests. (JB)

Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, much misinterpretation of the act by the public has taken place. The author of this article proposes that a wilderness education program is necessary to clarify the meaning of wilderness and to explain its merits and the nature of its usage. (MA)

In the rural school the tasks of polytechnical labor education are determined by the objective demands of scientific and technical progress in agricultural production, by its content, and by the nature of the labor of leading workers. (Author)