Education & Pedagogy

This publication provides a summary of the outcomes of international students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) qualification in Australia in 2017. These students were surveyed as an additional component to the 2018 National Student Outcomes Survey. The international component comprised international onshore graduates undertaking VET qualifications delivered by: (1) TAFE (technical and further education) institutes; (2) universities; (3) community education providers; and private training providers. [For the report from the previous year, "International Onshore VET Graduate Outcomes 2017. Australian Vocational Education and Training Statistics," see ED583518.]

This document serves as a support paper to the "Work-Life Issues and Participation in Education and Training" report. This support document contains tables that show: (1) participation in education and training; (2) participation in education and training and work-life interaction; (3) future participation in education or training; (4) perceptions of education and training; (5) concerns and supports for future education and training; and (6) predicting likelihood of future participation--a multivariate analysis. (Contains 84 tables.) [For the full report of this document, "Work-Life Issues and Participation in Education and Training", see ED507753.]

The purpose of this guide is to provide background information and suggested procedures to help local administrators in planning and implementing a career education in-service training program. In-service training is perceived in a developmental mode, with the need for long-range planning for change for all education personnel. The document presents the background from which career education has emerged showing the bridge from vocational to career education, a survey of the present state of career education with an overview of and Comprehensive Career Education Model, and suggested developmental stages for implementing career education. The author states that a comprehensive in-service training program based on career education may be the theme to revitalize the total education system. (MF)

This collection of readings was compiled to provide background information on adult education in Australia, as well as to indicate future aims. The papers discuss goals in adult education; the government's part in adult education; and institutionalizing adult education in universities and in other bodies. Institutions that offer adult education programs are named and their programs discussed. Methods used for teaching these programs are described, and standards utilized in these programs are presented. Surveys of the students who participate in adult education classes are described as to results. Appraisals are made of adult education programs from 1944 to 1965. A subject index is provided. (DB)

Utah is a member of a nine-state consortium to study competency-based teacher education and certification programs. This paper presents an overview of the nationwide movement for competency-based teacher education, followed by a description of the situation in Utah. The State Board of Education is making an effort through the Teacher Education and Certification Section to encourage the development of preservice and inservice competecny-based teacher education and certification programs. The trend in Utah seems to be a grassroots approach exemplifying the shared responsibility concept of teacher certification, that is, involving as much as possible all of the partners in teacher education in the development of new programs. (Author/DDO)

This paper deals with the inservice education of teachers by first defining the concept and presenting a brief history of inservice education. The prospects for change in inservice education are traced. Wisconsin documents relevant to inservice education are summarized, including the law, the administrative code, a task force report, and a position paper on inservice education. Experiences of other states and the stances taken by professional educational associations regarding inservice education are presented as a backdrop for four alternative models for inservice education: (1) the recertification model, (2) the regional educational center model, (3) the direct service model, and (4) the professional or accreditation model. The chapter concludes with a recommended future plan for inservice education in Wisconsin. (Author/MLF)

The descriptive guide to career education in Arizona elementary and secondary schools briefly covers each of the following topics: the relationship between career education and the three R's, highlights of a summative evaluation of two career education projects in southern Arizona, community involvement in career education, career education's eight elements, six often asked questions, and the role of vocational education within career education. To illustrate the concept it give brief descriptions of 12 career education projects: work experience, minicourses, community resource utilization, resource services, career clubs, hands-on activities, futuring, key teacher role, brother-sister programs, bilingual programs, stamp collecting, and a career mobile center. It also includes an excerpt from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's publication "Career Education." (JR)

One-hundred and fifty-one articles, dating frim 1952 to l964, comprise this third volume of selected articles from "Indian Education," a semi- MONTHLY FIELD LETTER PUBLISHED BY THE Bureau of Indian Affairs. The articles cover a wide range of elements affecting Indian educational attainment, such as cultural factors in Indian education, educational philosophy for Indian schools, program responsibility, research in Indian education, upgrading Indian education, designs for quality teaching, teaching English to Indian students, guidance for Indian students, summer programs for Indian students, adult education programs, inservice education programs, and goals for the future of Indian education. (DK)

Due to rapid industrial and technological developments, evaluation of vocational education programs must be a continuous process. The product to be evaluated is an educated youth capable not only of entry into the labor market, but also of persisting and progressing in the occupation. Capsulated descriptions of evaluation research on vocational education programs are presented in: (1) Retraining Projects, (2) Agricultural Education, (3) Business Education, (4) Industrial Arts and Trade and Industrial Education, (5) Vocational Guidance, (6) Adult Education, (7) Teaching Methods, (8) Teaching Machines and Program Instruction, and (9) General Curriculum, are presented. The document also contains a comprehensive bibliography of books, dissertations, journals, bulletins and research reports. (FP)

Following a brief description of primary and secondary education in Sweden, the aims and contents of the reform of higher education implemented in July 1977 are summarized. Basic higher studies (undergraduate courses), organized partly as education programs and partly as single course, are described, including admission requirements and the orientation of courses. Types of institutions and system characteristics are outlined. Admission procedures, vocational guidance, financial aid, the efficiency of tertiary education, enrollment trends, research in tertiary education, and costs of tertiary education are also discussed. The relationship between tertiary education and the labor market is examined, and future reforms being considered are outlined. (SPG)

The National Conference on Health Occupations Education was organized in response to a nationwide demand for dissemination of project findings and instructional materials in the field of health education. Emphasis throughout the research project and the conference was on the total instructional process. Approximately 100 participants contributed their knowledge and expertise on teacher education, examined current practices in preservice and inservice teacher training, and recommended new approaches for health occupations education teacher education programs throughout the country. Recommendations generated by the conference participants provide a basis on which guidelines for criteria relating to health occupations teacher education may be developed. (Author/VA)

This annotated bibliography of ERIC materials is intended as an aid for those involved in designing, planning, and implementing multicultural and bilingual education at all levels. Materials cited appeared in ERIC between 1976 and April 1981. Because of the many similarities of national experiences in multicultural and bilingual education, abstracts of documents about Canadian education have been included. ERIC documents and journal articles are cited. The listing is organized by topics including the following: philosophy, rationale, and definitions; preservice and inservice teacher education; multicultural education project descriptions; research projects; evaluation projects; classroom applications and materials; global education; evaluation of print and nonprint materials; desegregation/integration; women; specific ethnic groups; and bibliographies. (Author/RM)

College entrepreneurship education relatively lags behind in China at present. The main reason is that the lack of qualified teachers. For the construction of teachers' team training, firstly analysis the characteristics of the entrepreneurship education level, and then divide into two relatively independent levels which are basic entrepreneurship education theory and comprehensive practice. According to the different levels of education need, analyze the state of teachers' team and put forward the ideas and countermeasures of improvement on teacher's quality, including which construct a hierarchical or progressed entrepreneurship education system and configure the qualified teachers based on entrepreneurship education level structure, thus formulate different construction goal.

In recent times, the Nigerian educational system has witnessed some drastic reforms. This paper highlights some of the major reforms that have taken place especially in response to a number of international human rights instruments that provide for education as a fundamental human right to all. The paper further discusses some of the challenges facing education in Nigeria and which is making it difficult for good quality education that is all empowering and capable of bringing about sustainable development to be achieved. Finally, it offered some suggestions on how to overcome these challenges.

The University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) celebrates 25 years of service to Catholic schools in the United States. ACE began as an effort to provide teachers to under-resourced schools, soon after expanding to include Principal preparation. As the landscape and needs of Catholic education have changed, ACE has expanded its reach to include a wide range of formation programmes designed to strengthen and sustain Catholic education. Programmes have a notable impact on individual participants, schools, and on Catholic education more broadly within the United States.