Education & Pedagogy

This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2018), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between February to July 2018. This bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from August 2018 to January 2019. [For the previous bulletin (v50 n2 2018), see EJ1244626.]

The project is planned for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and mothers of young children using supplementary health programs. Functional literacy education is related to health and nutrition education and efficient delivery of medical services for women. The research design (using a control group), time schedule, and expected results are described. (JB)

Describes a sequence of three Unified Science courses for elementary education majors. The use of required and optional learning modules provides the student with knowledge of new curricula, environmental studies, and science processes in all areas of science, and provides experiences in group interaction and personalized student-teacher relationships. (MLH)

Because adult education in Sweden may not be lessening the gap between students and the working population and between younger and older generations as well, recurrent education is viewed as an answer to this dilemma. This approach could help in the pursuit of equality in society, and, further, make the educational choice less dramatic and decisive for youth. (Author)

This paper discusses the historical, political, ideological (value), and government policies of women's education in Saudi Arabia implicated within teaching and learning, how women's higher education has changed over time in the realm of Saudi cultural traditions and religious norms. It also highlights the golden era of women's higher education. This paper presets a feminist theoretical framework.

The author presents predictions concerning the major trends of education in the 1980's. He discusses financial matters, the relationships between the interests of society and those of educators, and the relationship of education to society. This paper was presented at a European conference on mathematics education in the 1980's. (SD)

Lifelong education is concerned with the matter of living and is not confined to artificial programs within the walls of educational institutions. The educational needs of adults living in rural areas are different from those in towns; how to meet those needs in revolutionary ways is discussed. (Author/AJ)

After describing the political context and history of Australian adult education (termed, "depressing"), the author briefly discusses the reports, delivered or impending, of three government-sponsored committees on recommended future policy: on open tertiary education, on technical and further education, and on retraining. He predicts substantial continuing expansion of adult education. (Author/AJ)

Process and product evidence presented in the paper indicate that the competency-based, mastery learning inservice workshop can be an effective diffusion strategy for an educational innovation. The innovation under study was a competency-based, mastery learning, individualized instruction project; the diffusion methods used were the same as the content. (Author/AJ)

The author defines recurrent education as continuing, or lifelong, education, offers a rationale for the concept, quotes the recommendations of a Canadian report, and describes a Canadian Professional Education Project. He discusses the impact of futuristics on course planning and recommends moving in the direction of planned continuous learning. (AJ)

Systematic and intensive interviews with 68 men in their early thirties suggested that the principal effects of a liberal education were the stabilization, symbolization, and integration of values; the effects of graduate and professional school were the integration and allocentric maturation of intellect and the symbolization of self-concept. (Editor/JT)

The contribution of tuition fees to higher education institutions in India is reviewed against a background of inadequate financial support. A differential system of tuition fees is proposed under which students not deemed suitable for higher education would be admitted subject to payment of tuition fees which reflected the full costs of their higher education. (Editor/JT)

Ways in which legal educators can assist law-related citizenship education in elementary and secondary schools are discussed, e.g. curriculum planning, review and development of materials, teacher training, and clinical law-related programs in which law students gain course credit for teaching in local schools. Several specific programs are reviewed. (JT)

Examines current thinking on the nature of intergovernmental relations, examines the data on the development of the Michigan compensatory education program and the issues that have characterized its administration, and draws some conclusions about the state-local interaction in education and about the leadership capacities of state education departments. (Author/IRT)

An overview of the development of education, training, and national educational reform plans in England is provided in this symposium paper. The following areas are described: governance, types of schools, higher and further education, grant maintained schools, national curriculum and examinations, the historical development and national standards for vocational education and training, and reform plans. Sixteen figures are included. (LMI)