Education & Pedagogy

Motorcycle safety education will become a necessity in the near future due to the growing demands of secondary students for education in this area. The Motorcycle Safety Foundation is sponsored by major motorcycle industries and is involved with developing programs and materials to promote motorcycle safety education. The high rate of motorcycle accidents during the first few months of motorcycle driving supports the need for motorcycle safety education in secondary schools. A program of this sort should be voluntary and come after the student has completed driver education instruction. Motorcycles can be obtained by schools with the cooperation of motorcycle dealers. Finally, local support is necessary to guarantee the initiation, continuation, and success of motorcycle safety education programs. (Author/EC)

This newsletter, number 29 in this series, provides brief summaries of a broad range of recent activities, decisions, and publications related to science education in Britain and in many countries throughout the world. Beginning with a list of personnel having major responsibilities for science education under the reorganized British Council, the journal also provides the names and titles of science education specialists from 20 African and Asian nations who are working with the Council. Recent developments in England are reported; these include the 1976 meeting of the Association for Science Education, institution of new courses and degree programs, evaluations of existing programs, and new publications. Overseas activities of the Council are reported, and international meetings are described. An index for issues 19 through 28 of the Newsletter is included. (SD)

This report deals with the issue of inservice teacher education and discusses in detail several new ventures and projects located in the Des Moines geographic area. The report reflects the views of several individuals--representatives from the Iowa State Education Association, Des Moines Public School System, Polk County Board of Education, and Drake University--who gave presentations dealing with inservice education and new techniques. The presentations cover the following topics: background on the Des Moines Education Association instruction and professional development activity; teacher-centered professional development; staff development in Des Moines Schools; Polk-Story Staff Development Council; State-Wide Staff Development Model; and professionalization of pre- and inservice education. A summary by the Editor predicting trends in inservice education concludes the report. (SK)

This annual publication includes cumulative indexes to the Fall 1967 -Summer 1968 issues of the quarterly publications: "Abstracts of Instructional Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (AIM) and "Abstracts of Research and Related Materials in Vocational and Technical Education," (ARM) published by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education. Cumulative author, document number, and subject indexes are included for both AIM and ARM. Also, a cumulative vocational and supporting services area index is included for ARM. These indexes should be useful to administrators, curriculum specialists, researchers, supervisors, teachers, and teacher educators. Documents announced in AIM and ARM are available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service or the source identified in the abstract. (CH)

Adult continuing education instructional activities in higher education are and will continue to become even more difficult to describe and define. The Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education Program Classification Structure, designed to provide a consistent means of identifying and organizing the activities of higher education in a program-oriented manner, would be more useful for classifying adult continuing education offerings if it were supplemented by a taxonomy providing additional categories of information. Such an addition would make possible the analysis of instructional activities along eleven independent dimensions and a very large number of combinations of dimensions by cross classification, many of which would be useful to institutions for internal record keeping and external reports. (Author)

This is the final report of a Unesco meeting held in New Delhi, India in April, 1976. Contents include background information, summaries of the inaugural meeting and the organization of the work at the conference, a summary of the discussions in the commissions, closure, recommendations, and annexes. Topics discussed at this meeting were: (1) predicted manpower needs, women in engineering; (2) curriculum design and development; (3) environmental engineers and technicians; (4) continuing education; (5) education-industry interaction in technological education; (6) institution-building interaction in technological education; and (7) cooperation at the international, regional, and country levels. Some of these topics have been printed as separate publications. (MA)

Written in a simple question/answer format, this manual is designed to assist educators in locating information on how to develop and implement a career education program in a rural area. Chapter I gives a historical overview of the career education program in the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative area. Chapter II details the various approaches taken in the career education program. Approaches to developing and implementing career awareness activities are discussed in chapter III. Chapter IV deals with the development and implementation of the exploration phase, and chapter V centers upon the preparation phase of career education. A bibliography is included and lists several sources which provide free materials on career education. (BM)

The author describes four exemplary inservice programs dealing with career education for the handicapped, and reviews current issues in the field. Among programs cited are Project T.H.O.R. (Training Habilitators of the Retarded), a statewide inservice program for teachers and administrators working with the trainable mentally retarded; and the Vocational Education Inservice Training Project at the University of Kansas which has developed training packages for both vocational and special educators. Inadequacies in the development of career education inservice programs are seen to include absence of programing at the elementary level, and poor relations between vocational and special education personnel. Implications of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, on the field are discussed. (CL)

This journal provides 12 brief articles focused on open education. Topics explored include (1) open education and reading, (2) mainstreaming, (3) characteristics of an open teacher, (4) administration of an open concept school, (5) an existential methodology in the language arts, (6) social studies in open education, (7) open education in early childhood classrooms, (8) community-based instructional programs (Boy Scouts) as a laboratory for teacher education, (9) self-esteem, (10) using learning activity packages in an open education classroom, (11) the open classroom in the high school, and (12) implementation of problem-solving activities in a consumer research unit for seventh graders. (Author/RH)

This booklet is intended for integrating environmental education into the school curriculum. It is divided into five sections. The overview section establishes the philosophical basis for environmental education. Section II, the largest section of the book, consists of a series of profiles which, in the case of this booklet, are brief portraits of people and places of interest to environmental education within the State of Massachusetts. The third section of the booklet includes program abstracts of environmental education programs functioning in Massachusetts. The fourth section includes a discussion of potentially useful resources and how best to utilize them. A listing of resources for Massachusetts is also provided. The fifth section contains a short concluding discussion. (RE)

This publication summarizes a discussion memorandum published in June 1975 by the Dutch Minister of Education and Science and the two state secretaries of education and science (higher education and secondary education). The memorandum is an initial proposal for setting educational policy and shaping Dutch education over the next 20 to 25 years. As such, it is intended primarily to stimulate discussion and comment among Dutch educators. Main focus of the memorandum is on defining broad educational policy and restructuring the Dutch educational system to reflect changing social conditions and educational needs. Eventually, the Ministry of Education and Science intends to develop the discussion memorandum into a definite legislative proposal for presentation to the Dutch Parliament. (JG)

The Conference was requested to study the following topics: (1) the present situation of physical education and sport in the education of youth; (2) the role to be played by physical education and sport in the education of youth in the perspective of lifelong education; (3) the strategies to be developed and steps to be taken at the national level for the promotion of physical education and sport; and (4) international cooperation for the promotion of physical education and sport. Appended to this report are the agenda and listing of member states and organizations, a summary report on physical education and sport in the United States, and addresses given at the conference. (JD)

THIS STATEWIDE OCCUPATIONAL STUDY WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH PERSONAL INTERVIEWS OF 10,096 BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES IN 32 TOWNS AND CITIES IN NEW MEXICO. TABULAR DATA ARE PRESENTED FOR EACH OF THESE NEW MEXICO POPULATION CENTERS WITH A SUMMARY OF PRESENT AND PROJECTED OCCUPATIONAL NEEDS IN DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION, OFFICE EDUCATION, TRADE AND INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION, AND HOME ECONOMICS. PRESENT AND PROJECTED OCCUPATIONAL NEEDS BY JOB TITLE ARE GIVEN FOR EACH VOCATIONAL AREA. ESTIMATED OCCUPATIONAL NEEDS IN THE FIVE AREAS ARE--(1) PRESENT, 2,477, (2) IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS, 33,951, (3) TURNOVER, 32,301, AND (4) TOTAL, 68,729. DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING SPECIFIC POPULATION CENTERS IS AVAILABLE IN REPORTS FOR EACH CENTER. (PS)

DOCUMENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE FALL 1967 ISSUE (VT 003 884) OF "ABSTRACTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION" (AIM), WITH MINOR EXCEPTIONS, ARE INCLUDED IN THIS MICROFICHE SET. THE MICROFICHE SET IS ARRANGED IN THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE -- (1) A VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL (VT) NUMBER INDEX TO DOCUMENTS IN THE MICROFICHE COLLECTION, (2) A VT LIST OF DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE LISTED IN AIM BUT ARE NOT IN THE MICROFICHE COLLECTION, (3) THE AUTHOR AND SUBJECT INDEX FROM AIM, AND (4) THE FULL TEXT OF DOCUMENTS LISTED IN THE VT NUMBER INDEX. THE TEXTS ARE FILMED CONTINUOUSLY IN VT NUMBER SEQUENCE. (BS)

THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT (MOSTLY 1966-67) CLEARINGHOUSE ACQUISITIONS IN HIGHER ADULT EDUCATION ARE LOOSELY ARRANGED BY GENERAL REFERENCES, COMMUNITY TYPES, STUDENT SERVICES, AND PARTICULAR PROGRAM AREAS. GENERAL REFERENCES INCLUDE ARTICLES ON EVENING COLLEGES, CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL, COMMUNITY, EXTENSION, AND MILITARY EDUCATION. LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, COLLEGE COMMUNITY COOPERATION, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ARE AMONG AREAS DEALT WITH IN THE SECOND GROUPING OF CITATIONS. A SECTION ON STUDENT SERVICES COVERS ADULT DROPOUTS, COUNSELING, AND STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES. SOME PROGRAM AREAS REPORTED ON ARE PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY EXTENSION, GROUP DISCUSSIONS, MUSIC EDUCATION, LABOR UNIONS, AND ADULT MENTAL ABILITY. (PT)