Education & Pedagogy

When linked to program review and improvement, program evaluation can help practitioners to ensure that career-technical education (CTE) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs offer equitable access and outcomes for underserved student groups.

Teachers desiring to address inequity within education must acknowledge the inconsistencies experienced by students who belong to historically marginalized or oppressed communities. Antiracist education addresses conventions rooted in systemic or structural racism, colourblindness, and implicit bias, creating an environment that facilitates equity in education for all students regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture.

The massive expansion of full-time education after school has more than doubled the places available in less than a decade. What form of educational provision is best equipped to give students an accurate picture of the opportunities available in higher education? (Editor)

The author talks about what the relationship between education and politics should be in England. Discussed are the priority of education within the spectrum of social policy, the social and economic effects of educational change, technocratic versus political consideration, time-span for educational change, and the professional dimension. (Author/RM)

The Business and Office Education Division at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention held round tables on 30 topics, emphasizing the need for humanism in teaching juxtaposed with depersonalizing developments in the field. In a general session, teacher education was examined, and internal divisiveness was blamed for funding problems. (AJ)

The U.S. Commissioner of Education, addressing the 1975 Convention, defines vocational education, discusses research on the learning process and implications for vo-ed, quotes George Bernard Shaw in industrialism, and warns against compartmentalizing vocational education. To achieve performance-based learning, individual learner needs are a fundamental consideration. (AG)

After a three-year study, the National Board on Graduate Education reports that graduate education must change from a simple model of advanced education to one with diversity and differentiation. Foresees a focus on accountability and a reduction in both demand for Ph.D.'s and research and development expenditures. (MLH)

Examines the publication process preferred by members of the American Association of Higher Education, the Association of Professors of Higher Education, and editors of journals in higher education. Focus is on desired standards of authors and editors and author rationale for publication and for selection of journals for manuscript submission. (Editor/JT)

The need for industrial education for many developing countries has involved them in implementing some career education concepts (awareness/exploratory, preparation, and specialization stages) in their industrial arts educational programs, utilizing such program guidelines as program financing, personnel development, and the availability of curriculum materials. (Author/BP)

The paper represents the Office of Education's first comprehensive conceptual statement on career education. It discusses such aspects of career education as conditions for educational reform, a rationale, a definition, basic concepts, programatic assumptions, initial implementation of career education tasks, learner outcomes, and educational changes. (Author/BP)

Schools of education facing reduced enrollments should consider taking such steps as eliminating nonproductive programs and courses, retooling faculty, offering elective courses that appeal to noneducation majors, planning new programs based on existing faculty and physical resources, recruiting flexible faculty, and developing cooperative programs with academic departments. (Author/IRT)

Reviews development of the investment concept in education, analyzes some of its strengths and weaknesses, and cites recent data on the desirability of further educational investment. Identifies educational benefits that are not commonly recognized and are not usually included in economic analyses of the value of education. (Author/JG)

This article treats the problems of opening the structure of existing outdoor education programs to keep pace with two open-ended teaching strategies being used in the classrooms. Obstacles to this open structure are discussed and the need for a humanistic, discovery approach in outdoor education is stressed. (MA)

Focuses on four community colleges: Lakota Higher Education Center, Pine Ridge, Sinta Gleska College, and Rosebud (all in South Dakota), noting that since the advent of Office of Economic Opportunity implementation of community action programs, there has been a tremendous upsurge in higher education for Indians of all tribes. (Author/JM)

Concepts and quantitative tools of economics and sociology are applied to the definition of students' demand for post secondary education for several purposes including an analysis of the characteristics of young adults enrolled in colleges. Studies on the effects of policy instruments used to affect changes in demand are considered. (Author/AM)