Education & Pedagogy

Describes teacher-training programs designed to increase music teacher effectiveness in working with mainstreamed special students. The discussion covers workshops, and inservice and preservice training opportunities available in all parts of the United States. (AM)

Compares the cultural role of sports and physical education in various countries around the world. The author discusses how the motivations underlying the demand for physical exercise and sports will affect future cultural roles of professional and recreational sports. (AM)

Discusses the need for new educational objectives for physical education. The range of human movement types are classified according to their degrees of spontaneity, naturalness, artificiality, and technical efficiency. The author advocates a new physical education curriculum which expands the individual capacity for movement. (AM)

Summarizes trends in Portugese higher education. Recent changes in the organization of institutions of higher education, the types of academic degrees granted, and characteristics of the student population are described. Factors affecting employment of college graduates are discussed. (AM)

Cooperative education programs can serve as strategies for resolving environmental threats and dangers, for realizing environmental opportunities, and for transforming the threats and dangers into opportunities. (JOW)

The history and implications of commercial education are examined and contrasted with current practices in vocational education. (FG)

Discusses how the aesthetic experience of sensuous immediacy has been reduced by common approaches to art education and the modern technocratic society. The article advocates that aesthetic education stress sensuous immediacy to promote creativity, art appreciation, and empathy. (AM)

Discusses the education of the Jews in 19th-century century Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. There was rapid growth of state-controlled Jewish secular education from almost none in 1844 to 106 schools with 3487 students in 1855. (RM)

The article discusses the five issues considered as part of EduTech, a project to find technological applications that will help resolve service delivery issues in special education. (SB)

Cites a few of the outstanding changes in California's school operation, as well as the benefits accrued from these changes, to support the contention that public school systems are improving and that the future of public education has never been brighter. (Author/MP)

Provides a historical overview of public education, advocates freedom of choice as the best method for distributing education, describes some of the benefits of parental choice, and answers objections to tuition tax credits. (SK)

Lists and discusses 12 components of special education programs that principals and special education teachers can incorporate in new programs, can review in existing programs, and can use as a basis for developing goals for teacher evaluations. (PGD)

The author applies the evolutionary idea of reciprocal relationships between people and their environment to the possibilities for change in teacher education. Teaching as an intellectual activity and the need for interdisciplinary study are advocated. (MT)

This article analyzes the findings on critical thinking in six major national reports on the status of education and the subsequent implications for teacher preparation. This information suggests that critical thinking is an essential component of an effective teacher education program. (MT)

Educational innovations in France concerning the priority areas of education, the objectives of the college, procedures for pupil guidance, and the second long cycle are described. (RM)