Education & Pedagogy

Factors influencing the graduate and professional education of women are reviewed and a successful University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry outreach program is described for recruiting women dental students through use of a slide-tape, special publications, and the involvement of school counselors. (JT)

Surveys the particular issues and problems in public education systems in this country that have confronted poor people and their legal representatives and suggests the areas in which future legal activity may reasonably be expected. (Author)

Three hundred sixty-nine dissertations are listed in this international directory. They are divided into categories (e.g., biographical studies, choral-vocal music, historical studies, string music, etc.), and three indexes are provided: students' names; institutions represented; and subject category. (JB)

Advocates community college continuing education programs in industrial plants and other off-campus buildings and outlines the structural organization needed for such programs and the roles for the director of in-plant education. Such programs must be cooperatively planned by personnel from the college and the participating business firm. (DC)

Describes the various aspects of community education--career training and transfer programs, continuing education, and cultural and recreational programs--in Flint, Michigan. Briefly describes the ACSD (Associate Community School Director) program, which trains personnel for active community school direction, emphasizing the relationship between school and non-school units for successful community education. (DC)

Using medical education as a case study, this article outlines the historical reasons for determining the costs of the educational program leading to the M.D. degree. Attention is then focused on the modeling approach taken by the Association of American Medical Colleges for the determination of environmental costs of education. (Editor/PG)

In this final chapter, we summarize the themes of this sourcebook along with the issues and trends in health professions education (HPE) identified by the chapter authors. By comparing and contrasting HPE and adult and continuing education, we discuss ways in which the two can be integrated.

United States programs represented at the January, 1975 Multinational Workshop on Adult Education (Washington, D. C.) included: regional university adult education center (Appalachia); low-income nutrition (Georgia); community college sponsored learning center (Kankakee, Illinois); State GED program (Alabama); regional occupational centers (Los Angeles, California); literacy education council (Minnesota); State parent-child development project (Utah). (Author/EA)

This study explored issues facing deans within higher education, specifically deans of doctoral granting schools/colleges of education. The study explored key challenges/issues and related stress education deans experience at research universities.

The Teacher Education Departmental sessions of the AVA's convention heard suggestions for program continuation, possibly by forming a division. Discussing women in our society, one speaker cites statistics revealing discrimination, another suggests 11 steps to modify women's disadvantage. An inservice program for vocational administrators and the politics of research are described. (AJ)

With the introduction of humanistic perspectives in the curricula of medical schools in recent years, the role of medical history in education warrants reassessment. Examines the reasons for giving medical students an historical perspective and presents a model of the program in use at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. (Editor/PG)

This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2020), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between February and August 2020. This bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from September 2020 to February 2021. [For the previous bulletin (v52 n2 2020), see EJ1314566.]

Proposes design and implementation strategies for a national teacher education program (preservice, inservice, and on-the-job) to prepare primary social studies teachers for Nigeria's Universal (Free) Primary Education (UPE) Scheme which emphasizes teacher knowledge, methods and student evaluation, and materials development. Organization, administration, supervision, and financing of the program are considered. (JT)

Recalibrating the role of higher education in higher education is no small task. Assessment is vital to understand which efforts prove fruitful and which do not. This chapter discusses the importance of thoughtful framing and design of CLDE learning outcomes, methodological pluralism, and the opportunities available by sharing assessment findings.

A review of effective primary care education and service delivery. Eleven issues are highlighted, including those involving physicians and non-M.D. professionals, financing, the pluralistic approach to education and care, students and faculty, specialty boards, and evaluation. Consensus approaches as well as diversity of opinions are noted. (Editor)