Education & Pedagogy

This paper presents an overview of distance education technologies and a discussion of the potential benefits and abuses for special education of interactive television distance education. Technologies described include microcomputer systems, satellite transmission, and telephone lines as media transmitters. (Author/DB)

Reflects on themes of two North American adult education conferences: political economy of adult education, social construction of adult education knowledge, community-based adult education, and links among heritage, memory, and adult education. (SK)

Describes three important phenomena of European education: the great expansion of secondary and higher education since World War II, the rapid internationalization of education, and issues of language. Discusses implications of these issues for comparative education as a field of study. (SV)

Presents an overview of an innovative distance education course which provides another setting for science education courses. Discusses technology used, selected benefits and drawbacks, assessment, and possibilities for improvement and expansion. (JRH)

Summarizes the major thrusts of the World Decade for Environmental Education. Discusses access to information, research and experimentation, teacher training, technical and vocational education, educating and informing the public, general university education, and international and regional cooperation. (TW)

The structure of the Czechoslovak system of preservice and inservice teacher education introduced by Education Act No. 29 of 1984 is described. The preparation of special education teachers is given particular emphasis. (Author/MT)

The key to improving teacher education programs and their graduates is an integrative general education curriculum and reform in the conduct of college teaching across the disciplines, with leadership emerging from schools, colleges, and departments of education. (Author/CB)

Describes several environmental education activities. Introduces educational materials and two environmental education programs. Provides demographic and geographic data of the region. (YP)

This article describes the involvement of school personnel in the development of Individual Education Plans (IEPs), explains a proposed IEP-based inservice education model, and addresses potential pitfalls and benefits of this approach to inservice teacher education. (IAH)

Examines the role of education, access to it, lack of participation, and education as a means of social control and culture transmission. Argues that work and leisure are interdependent and explores implications for adult education curriculum. (SK)

Toiviainen discusses the difference between general education and adult vocational education in Finland and the values underlying Finnish adult education. Jokinen describes adult education centers and their growth in enrollment over the past 30 years. (JOW)

This introductory column on issues of technology integration across special education teacher preparation reviews efforts towards this end of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, state departments of education, individual universities, and the federal government's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers To Use Technology program. (Contains references.) (DB)

Describes the relationship between physical education and special education, a relationship defined in the 1972 Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Although the two fields have not always been compatible, they both desire and promote attention to the whole child and maximization of the child's potential. (SLD)

Describes vocational education and training (VET) policy in the Netherlands, components of the VET system (prevocational education, senior secondary vocational education, apprenticeships, higher vocational education, adult continuing education), and features of work-based learning in school-to-work programs. (SK)

Describes the Iowa Chemistry Education Alliance (ICEA), a consortium of four chemistry instructors from high schools, members of the faculty at Iowa State University, and consultants from an Iowa Area Education Agency. Contains 21 references. (DDR)