Education & Pedagogy

Increasingly society holds the engineer responsible for the management and control of the physical environment. Courses in the Social Aspects of Engineering are being developed to direct students towards a concern for the societal impact of the engineer's work. These courses are recommended for the senior year of study. (MA)

The nature of training needed by prospective vocational education researchers and the means by which these needs can be met are discussed. The author notes some courses that should be in the program and states that practicum experiences are indispensable. Some problems in recruiting students for vocational education research training are also explored. (MF)

To achieve a basic and common level of primary education, the Ivory Coast has developed a program of teaching pupils via television and related materials. Out-of-school education for adults, curriculum innovations, and continuous inservice training for teachers are additional elements of the educational reform. (JMD)

Higher education is preoccupied with specialization and focused on the future work, career, and occupational competence of the individual. However, basic humanistic skills and hard moral choices should be as much a part of the education of a professional or scholar as are the knowledge and techniques of the discipline itself. (author/BB)

This article presents an over-view of the new directions in education concerning sexually transmissible diseases (STD). It suggests long-range behavioral goals, concepts, affective domain strategies, and teaching resources for STD education that reflect the present STD situation. An STD fact sheet for students is also given. (Author)

Lists and annotates documents on the administration of career education which were screened from a computer search of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) collection by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Career Education. Identifies bibliographies, administrative manuals, inservice guides, and university programs pertinent to career education and includes ordering information. (MF)

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, established in 1968 and now located on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus, offers students training that may lead to a certificate, diploma, or associate degree in business or technical skills. Job opportunities for graduates are described, as is the institute itself. (LBH)

Eight years ago the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public school system initiated alternative schools and methods to make education more relevant to various students. The article describes seven different alternative schools and programs for basics, moral development, preparation for work, relaxed classrooms, or discipline. (MF)

A survey of state certification requirements for vocational education teachers and administrators shows significant differences in education and performance requirements among different vocational areas: (1) trade and industrial, technical, and health; and (2) distributive, home economics, and agriculture. (MF)

Reviews contributions British universities make to the improvement of learning and teaching in the schools, explains why a study of these contributions is timely, and identifies some of the problems and issues that confront the further development of this work. (Author/CK)

Vocational education in Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Sweden begins at the age of sixteen after the student has completed basic education. Vocational curricula varies from one to three or more years. The author describes the vocational systems in these countries and compares them to the United States. (MF)

A small group affective education approach to teaching high school youth about alcohol stresses group exploration of student-generated questions and concerns by creating an atmosphere of free emotional interchange in which students can sort feelings, facts, and myths. (Author)

An account of the Business and Office Education Division's (at the annual vocational convention) action planning sessions that involved business educators, teachers, and students in probing and reporting on nineteen issues of concern to their field. A verbatim report of one group is included to demonstrate their systematic approach to action planning. (SH)

Discussed in this commencement address delivered at Howard University, Washington, D.C., on June 6, 1930, is the problem of college and industrial education for Black Americans: that it did not give them the sound economic foundation which would make their survival in America certain or probable. (Author/EB)

Traces educational developments in Germany after World War II and assesses the influence of British educational ideals on Germany's educational system. Information is based on "The British in Germany. Educational Reconstruction after 1945," by Arthur Hearnden. (DB)