Education & Pedagogy

Many in higher education view career education as a threat. However, career education adds to the sum of the educational parts and doesn't threaten established curricula. Rather, it seeks to give conventional offerings purpose and meaning at a time when young people are searching for purpose and meaning. (MW)

The author compares the Flexner report on medical education and the Reed report on legal education. Special emphasis is given to how the reports responded to and conceived of the conflict between elite and democratic sentiment in professional education. (DE)

The article discusses the need for a close working relationship between business education and the economic education movement, the recent curriculum and project developments that can contribute to this bond, and what economic education service centers can provide in the way of relevant resource materials for business education teachers. (Author/BP)

Examines the present debate surrounding deschooling (abolition or non-setting up of schools) particularly hypotheses regarding the use of schooling as a screening device for occupational selection. Analyzes its relevance for low-income, low-schooling countries in light of recent data from Northern Nigeria on education and labor productivity. (JT)

The characteristics of educationally productive work are the learning processes involving (a) the formation of new ideas or innovations of existing ideas; (b) purposeful activity leading from one purpose to another and; (c) socialization of the ideas and the purposes. Suggests programs for education including: adult functional education, vocational education, and nonformal education. (Author/PG)

The paper is a summary of some impressions of agricultural education that my colleagues and I gained during the past two years in the course of conducting an international study of non-formal education for rural development. (Author)

The article traces the development, scope, and functions of the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouse in Career Education since its reorganization and consolidation in 1973. Located at Northern Illinois University, it serves all segments of the field of adult and continuing education, vocational and technical education, and career education. (MW)

Suggesting the need to base education programs for social service personnel on functions they perform, the author discusses implications for curriculum, articulation, accreditation and certification, access, staffing and finance. Separation of professional education for social work and general education in the field of social welfare is recommended. (JT)

Responded to a 1973 journal article by R. S. Peters which defended education as a topic of research in institutes of higher education. The author argues that degrees in education without practical experience are an educational disaster and should be abandoned. (Author/DB)

A description of some of the teacher needs related to teaching career education, four types of inservice programs designed to meet these needs, some considerations in planning career education inservice programs, and a model describing the proposed content of a career education inservice program are presented. (Author/EC)

The impact of four vocational education laws enacted in Michigan is discussed: the Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Act, the Career Education Act, the Mandatory Special Education Act, and Michigan's "Added Cost" funding system. (Author/BP)

The Center for Vocational and Technical Education reviewed 26 career education programs in operation in various sections of the U.S., finding seven components common to most of them: cooperative education, career guidance, placement, follow-up, programs for disadvantaged and/or handicapped youth, and in-service teacher education. (JM)

The University Occupational Education Coordinators Council, referred to as a liaison council, serves as a vital link in the Illinois system for development and delivery of occupational education personnel. The council consists of representatives from eight State universities, all having vocational teacher education programs. (Author/EA)

This volume contains selected papers submitted to the 20th Jubilee Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), conducted virtually in June 2022. The 20th BCES Conference theme is "Towards the Next Epoch of Education." The theme is focused on problems, discussions, changes, solutions, and challenges that have recently happened, and as well on various opportunities, prospects, and advantages that have been made available to all actors in the educational systems around the world--students, parents, teachers, administrators, psychologists, principals, faculty members, researchers, and policy makers at municipal, regional, and national level. The book includes 33 papers and starts with an introductory piece authored by Charl Wolhuter. The other 32 papers are divided into 6 parts representing the BCES Conference thematic sections: (1) Comparative and International Education & History of Education; (2) International Education Issues; (3) School Education: Policies, Innovations, Practices & Entrepreneurship; (4) Higher Education & Teacher Education and Training; (5) Law and Education; and (6) Research Education & Research Practice. [Individual papers are indexed in ERIC. This content is provided in the format of an e-book.]

This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner's Introduction and Statistics of State Common School Systems. Part I covers the topics: (1) History of the German School System; (2) Summer Schools in England, Scotland, France, and Switzerland; (3) Education in Great Britain and Ireland; (4) Education in Canada; (5) Systems of Public Education in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania; (6) Education in Central Europe; (7) Means for Spreading Hygienic Knowledge Among the People; (8) Report on European Textile Schools; (9) The International Congress on Technical Education; (10) Education in India; (11) Organization and Reconstruction of State Systems of Common School Education in the North Atlantic States from 1830 to 1865; (12) Physical Training; (13) Notes on the History of Foreign Influence upon Education in the United States; (14) Status of Woman from the Educational and Industrial Standpoint; (15) The Public School and the Public Library; (16) Education in France; (17) Notes on the History of American Text-books on Arithmetic; (18) The Teaching of Astronomy in the Primary and Secondary Schools and in the University; (19) Digest of Laws Relating to Text-books, Their Selection and Supply; (20) Education in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; (21) Experimental Study of Children, including Anthropometrical and Psychophysical Measurements of Washington School Children; (22) Education in the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, and Brazil; (23) Dental Education in the United States; and (24) Educational Directory. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98. Volume 2. Containing Parts II and III," see ED622138.]