Education & Pedagogy

The project director reports on the AACJC/AVA national joint study of articulation practices at twenty-two sites randomly selected from a list of 140 recommended locations. Visitation teams conducted interviews to document the extent of articulation among institutions offering vocational and technical education at the secondary and postsecondary levels. (MF)

Describes an Arkansas articulation model in business and office education which attempts to bridge the gap between the traditional experience-based system and the performance-based system by incorporating the strengths of each system. The model includes eight elements and covers the four cluster areas of accounting, office practice, shorthand, and typing. (BM)

It is suggested that clinical legal education has the potential to strengthen student education, assist teachers, stimulate research and scholarship, and contribute to improving the nation's legal system. Examples of clinical research and activities are drawn from the work done at New York University School of Law. (JMD)

Harvard University's Fellowships in Law and the Humanities program is an example of one effort to enrich legal education with humanistic values. Suggestions as to what is sought and what can be achieved by efforts to humanize legal education are offered, and some of the barriers blocking this goal are discussed. (JMD)

Project: Stop-Gap, an in-service teacher training program at Temple University is designed to accommodate the training needs and mandates of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, as they relate to physical education and motor development. (JMF)

Describes the mandatory continuing education requirements, for professional engineers that have been enacted into law in some states. The requirements could be satisfied by taking a certain number of professional development hours (PDH), continuing education units (CEU), or any other activities acceptable to the state board. (GA)

Argues that the responsibility for the productivity of teachers must be shared by preservice institutions, professional teachers' associations, the school, and the individual teacher. Lists in-service activities used in a specific school district and presents a brief account of a review of reading-related language activities undertaken in that district. (FL)

Presents the role of RECSAM, the Regional Center for Education in Science and Mathematics of Southeast Asia, in the production of low-cost teaching/learning aids and in training key educators at the elementary level. (HM)

With the abolition of slavery, most West Indian planters dramatically changed their attitudes toward education for Blacks, suddenly favoring it. This paper examines reasons behind the attitudinal changes, the planters' perceptions on the role of education for Blacks, and the use of education as a mechanism for social control. (DS)

Categories to quantify demand include the relevant age group, the staying-on rate, the qualification rate, and the take-up or willingness rate. These are examined for the time span of 1969-70 to 1975-76. It is suggested that more sensitivity is needed to allow demand to make itself felt. (MLW)

The impact of technology on higher education from increasingly complex computers and technological systems will cause higher education to include technological courses in the liberal arts curriculum, prepare liberal arts students for careers in nontraditional areas in which technology is an important component, and broaden the base of engineering education. (JMF)

The motivations of pharmacists for participating in continuing education are investigated to determine if the imposition of mandatory continuing education has any influence on motivation to participate. Possible differences in motivation when compared by demographic variables are also examined. Differences in motivation related to state requirements are noted. (JMD)

International education is discussed in terms of the relationship between education and development including demographic, economic, social, and political factors affecting education. Issues related to analysis of development, basic needs, and the new international economic order are raised. The role of American higher education in this process is explored. (JMF)

Describes a project to produce individually prescribed learning modules in computerized office operations developed and field-tested by business education teachers for their classrooms in a graduate program at the University of Delaware; the project integrated the computer as a resource tool and incorporated multimedia materials into modules. ( MF)

A synopsis of the development of education, particularly higher education, in Nigeria introduces a discussion of the need to make university education more relevant to the developmental needs of the country. Reorganization of universities and a different emphasis in research are among the problems to be faced. (JMD)