Education & Pedagogy

THE TWO COURSES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN EDUCATION AND EDUCATION OF THE INDIAN ADULT, WERE OFFERED FOR THE SECOND TIME DURING THE SUMMER OF 1963 AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. THIS DOCUMENT IS A RESULT OF THE COMPILATION OF 32 PAPERS PREPARED BY THE STUDENTS FROM THESE 2 CLASSES. THESE PAPERS PERTAIN TO VARIOUS SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST AND TO UNIQUE INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION APPROACHES. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE SECTIONS ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE PAPERS. (ES)

This guide is intended to provide a logical approach to the improvement of environmental education at the secondary school level. It includes: (1) an introduction; (2) four goals for environmental education; (3) the role of the environmental studies course; (4) where to go with environmental education; (5) a planning and evaluation checklist; and (6) an annotated resource list for the State of Washington. A guide to discussion of specific subject area references is also provided for the guide. (RE)

This newsletter on environmental education discusses the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education held in Tbilisi, USSR in October, 1977. Presented are accounts of the preparations and consultations relative to the conference. A provisional agenda and discussion thereof is presented. Also included in the newsletter are analyses of meetings on environmental education held in various regions of the world. A review of an annotated bibliography of world environmental education trends, published by the International Bureau of Education, is included. (RE)

This collection of three environmental education newsletters includes activities and issues of international environmental education for 1976. The first issue contains discussion of the Belgrade Charter adopted at the International Environmental Education Workshop at Belgrade, October 1975. The second issue deals with regional plans, projects, and meetings; discusses the Belgrade Workshop recommendations; and reviews environmental education workshop experiments around the world. The third issue discusses the role of environmental education and the community. (RE)

The booklet provides general information on the special education market, with attention given to the relationship to the overall education market. Statistics are presented which relate to the amount of dollars spent in the field; reasons for difficulty in marketing media and materials for handicapped learners; allocation of funds as specified by P.L. 94-142 (Education of All Handicapped Children Act); the national budget; and the number of handicapped children (served and unserved). Also given is a list of information sources. (SBH)

This publication is the report by the Committee on Education and Labor concerning Environmental Education Act amendments (H.R. 10570). This bill proposes a five-year extension of the Environmental Education Act with amendments to clarify the purposes of the act, to permit multiple year funding of environmental education projects, and to abolish the Advisory Council on Environmental Education. The report provides background information on the bill, an explanation of H.R. 10570, legislative considerations, and budgetary statements. (Author/MA)

Prepared by the State of Iowa Department of Public Instruction, this pamphlet is intended to be an aid for local curriculum committees who are developing and implementing the mathematics and science components of their school's multicultural, nonsexist education plan. Included are definitions of key terms, rationale and philosophy, legal authority, goals and objectives, a self-evaluation checklist, bibliography, and resource organizations for multicultural, nonsexist education. (DS)

This booklet contains a collection of services available to professional educators in the state of Massachusetts. Services in the areas of curriculum materials, field trip sites, films, and training and support services are included. While services are broadly categorized under curriculum areas, an index to locate names of specific organizations is provided. (JD)

The encounter between the pre-colonial education system in India, dominated by poor teachers and students, and the British education system, which defended and perpetuated the "English class system", created a complex and problematic relationship. This article explores this problematic relationship between poverty and education in the discourse of the colonial state as well as of Indian nationalists.

This article focuses on Turkey's experience of the Bologna Process. Its main objective is to contribute to the literature on the impact of Bologna Process on national higher education systems regarding the issue of curricula development. It argues that the Bologna Process has fostered development of transparent and systematic curricula, which result in comparability of higher education across European Higher Education Area.

In the current society, economic development in any region has to rely on higher education. Conversely, higher education cannot do without regional economic development in order to achieve greater progress in scale and level. Starting with the function of higher education in Wenzhou, this paper analyzes the reality and problems in Wenzhou's higher education and comes up with countermeasures for its further development in order to constantly promote the coordinative development of Wenzhou's higher education and regional economy.

This paper reviews some of the social, historical, and political forces and events that influenced the development of Bennett Reimer's early philosophy of music education in the late 1950s and continuing to his death in 2013. John Dewey's ideas about the moral and political purposes of art education are employed as critical tools for understanding the political dynamics of Reimer's career during the early Cold War as all education was conceived by government and prominent education reformers as social control rather than liberation.

The current study surveyed students' knowledge of and perceptions about general education requirements at a large research-intensive university. Findings revealed that students harbored misconceptions about general education requirements and illuminated the reasons why students were choosing to take required general education courses at other institutions of higher education. Implications for better informing students about the relevance of courses and opportunities to "rebrand" general education messages for twenty-first-century students are discussed.

As one of the development trends in world education, multicultural education has been confronted with a lot of difficulties in the globalization tide that becomes more and more open. On the basis of making an analysis of the background and connotation of generation of multicultural education, this paper reflects on multicultural education in China. In addition, the author of this paper expounds how a teacher ought to adapt to the trend of multicultural education in China by combination of her own professional background and proposes new requirements.

Liberal education has been a target of political discourse in many countries, and Japan is no exception. In Japanese higher education, there are three types of institutions: national public, local public, and private. In June 2015, Japan's minister of education, Hakubun Shimomura, called upon the country's national universities to take "active steps to abolish [social science and humanities] organizations or to convert them to serve areas that better meet society's needs." In this article, the author presents a brief history in the defense of Japanese liberal education.