Education & Pedagogy

To provide an opportunity for discussion of the educational needs of library personnel in the prairie provinces, a Workshop on Library Education was held in Edmonton on March 14, 1970. Approximately two hundred registrants representing all three prairie provinces participated. The papers presented are: (1) Issues, Decisions and Continuing Debate: The History of American Library Education 1870-1970, (2) Research and Library Education, (3) Pre-Service Education: Content and Methodology, and (4) Continuing Education for Librarians. Also presented is a list of registrants and biographies of the speakers. (MM)

ERIC abstracts on vocational education programs in the public schools, announced in RIE through February 1971, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "cooperative education,""distributive education,""vocational education," and "work experience programs." The following information is presented for each document: Author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date, number of pages, ERIC document ("ED") number, price and availability, and abstract. A subject index is cross-referenced with the document listing. (RA)

The fluid power industry has been a leader in technical education. The problem of preparing skilled manpower is both short-term as regards current needs and long-term in light of the general objectives of American education. Career education provides the solution. The opportunity is available to leaders of the fluid power industry to support both long-range career education and occupational and adult programs on a State and local level. (MS)

This volume is primarily devoted to activities administered by the Assistant Secretary for Health. These programs include the Health Services Administration; the Center for Disease Control; the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; and the Health Resources Administration. Programs affecting education that are discussed include health education programs and alcohol education programs. (JF)

This bibliography, compiled to update an earlier publication on the subject, contains 172 references selected from the recent collection of ERIC documents on open education. Entries are included from both Research in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) for January 1973 through July 1974. The descriptor (index) terms used in searching RIE and CIJE were "Open Education" and "Open Plan Schools." (Author/SDH)

This document presents articles concerned with curriculum, graduate and professional education, and finance. Articles discuss the changing college curriculum; the academy and general education; Pennsylvania's "state-owned" institutions, some dimensions of degree output; the quality of graduate studies in Pennsylvania and other selected states; exceptional graduate admissions at the Pennsylvania State University; and the rationale for various plans for funding American higher education. (MJM)

This synopsis extracts from the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education report the salient points of import to financing postsecondary education. The first section of this paper deals with the objectives of postsecondary education stated by the commission and how well these objectives are being met. The second section discusses a number of realities that have significant impact on the selection of a financing plan to postsecondary education. (MJM)

Facts and figures about international involvement lead to a discussion of international education which concentrates on: (1) schools, (2) teacher education, (3) study abroad programs, and (4) foreign students in the United States. The conditions which allow for the organization of such programs are examined. Funding programs are noted in a section treating educational financing. A bibliography on international education includes a section of Education and World Affairs publications. (RL)

Mandated by the Education Amendments of 1974, this document is the first attempt to describe and interpret the condition of American education in a statistical report. Using the theme of participation, the data identifies participants in education, portrays what goes on in schools, explores changing patterns of age participation in types of schooling, looks at where education takes place, and describes educational financing. (Author/DW)

This document reviews higher education and research in Finland. Chapter 1, the administration of higher education and research, reviews the Parliament, the President of the Republic, the Cabinet, and the Ministry of Education. Subsequent chapters cover institutions of higher learning, the overall situation in higher education in quantitative terms, the administration of higher education, university degrees, plans for the development of higher education, the administration and organization of research activities, research resources, training of researchers, academic societies and publications, special features, and plans for the development of research. (MJM)

This document presents four background studies related to one of the major themes of the OECD Conference on Future Structures of Post-Secondary Education. The major thrust of the papers deals with structure of studies and place of research in mass higher education. Topics cover new teaching-research relationships in mass postsecondary education, the place and role of basic research in the future structures of postsecondary education, the integration of learning and research in mass higher education, and the American academic credit system. (MJM)

This publication contains reprints of five documents that were either published in foreign journals or released in limited numbers by author or publisher. The papers are all concerned with population education, but deal more specifically with the role of population and the schools. Among the topics discussed are population education and the school curriculum; issues and problems in introducing population education; a new role for schools - population education; the schools and population; and ethics, population policy, and population education. (BT)

This pamphlet is a collection of ten short articles originally published in "Soil Conservation" from 1964-1968. The articles are written for the teacher and are concerned with recent innovations in conservation education in various schools in the eastern United States. Innovations include school land laboratories, soil monolith tours for teachers, and school site planning and development. A number of outdoor laboratory experiences for students are suggested. A teacher education program involving conservation education is presented. Several conservation education publications are listed. (BB)

This 132-item bibliography, with English abstracts of articles published in Pakistani periodicals from January to March 1970, includes a special section on teacher education. Major sections are devoted to comparative education, education planning, health education, Islamic education, philosophy of education, and teaching methods and media. An author index is included. Related documents are ED 031 115, ED 032 820, ED 035 337, ED 036 801, and EA 003113. (JF)

This bibliography and Bibliography No. 16 (forthcoming) are companion bibliographies on staff specialization and utilization in schools. This bibliography is concerned principally with professional staff. It contains 113 citations subsumed under three headings: 1) books, papers, and pamphlets; 2) journal articles and excerpts from books; 3) theses. Publication dates range from 1965 to 1970. Sources consulted in preparing the bibliography include Canadian Education Index, Education Index, Current Index to Journals in Education, Cumulative Book Index, Research in Education, Education Studies in Canadian Universities, Directory of Education Studies in Canada, and Research Studies in Education. (Author/RT)