Education & Pedagogy

This article argues that if the policy of inclusion in Great Britain is to have value, impact, and longevity it needs to be considered in the light of the prevailing real-world context of special education-focused teacher education. Recommendations are made for addressing special education in teacher education programs. (Contains references.) (CR)

Discusses the quality of K-12 physical education programs, the effectiveness of physical education teacher education (PETE) and the ways and extent to which each plays a part in the success or failure of the other. The paper examines how to redesign PETE to ensure systemic success. (SM)

To establish its position concerning the differences between general, prevocational, and vocational education, the Division of Vocational Education for New Mexico defined each area and applied these definitions to agriculture, distributive education, health occupations, home economics, office education, and trade and industrial education programs at the secondary level. Charts of possible sequential courses for occupational training programs are used to clarify the relation between general, prevocational, and vocational education. (SB)

Provides a retrospective of 40 years of the journal's existence with an overview and a reprinted article from each of the last four decades. Overview authors are Rupert Evans, Dennis Herschbach, Frank Pratzner, and David Bjorkquist. Reprints address industrial education, the rational for career education, vocational education and general schooling, and policies for American work and education in 2000. (JOW)

Discusses general education and basic subjects as well as vocational education (general-technical education in particular) in terms of the logical and epistemological qualities. Basic general-technical subjects and their peculiarities are also discussed. Suggests a new principle of teaching, namely, the principle of integration. (Author/DS)

Presents figures that indicate the extent of change in women's enrollment patterns since the passage of Title II of the Education Amendments of 1976. Discusses enrollment patterns in office occupations education, health occupations education, marketing and distributive education, trade and industrial education, occupational home economics, technical occupations, and agricultural occupations. (CT)

This annotated guide provides 54 references to materials on international trends in teacher education, including such subjects as educational change, educational technology, literacy instruction, educational quality, global perspectives, teacher recruitment, developing nations, multicultural education, policy development, women's education, and research. (SM)

The bulk of the Pakistani educational materials listed in this annotated bibliography was published between October and December, 1969. The 128 entries are arranged under 31 categories covering many aspects of education. (DO)

If continuing medical education is to fuse into a continuum with undergraduate education, the medical schools and their faculty members must address the lifelong needs of practitioners by learning the philosophy and methods appropriate to effective adult education. (Author/LBH)

This issue of Soviet Education examines esthetic education in Soviet schools, including ways of raising the level of esthetic education, the factor of labor, research on the relationship between the atheistic and esthetic education, ways of amplifying interrelationship between theory and practice in teacher education and psychological principles in the esthetic development of children. (Author/RM)

Describes a study involving the distribution of a questionnaire to 30 nurses in northern Illinois to determine the extent of their participation in voluntary continuing education and to determine their attitudes toward mandatory continuing education. (WL)

Business education should prepare students to work in business and teach them about business. Economics education is intended to help high school graduates make reasoned judgments about major economic issues facing them and society. The Joint Council on Economic Education has been the principal catalyst in bridging business education and economic education. (JOW)

Interdisciplinarity, problem-focused education, and experiential education must serve some larger goals and fit some larger framework or philosophy of education. Engaged education--with emphasis on relevance involvement, social problem-solving, and seen as opposed to traditional education--is discussed. (MLW)

Describes rural primary and secondary schools in the Chinese countryside today, and the Chinese government's policy toward rural education, including universalized primary education and increasing numbers of vocational, technical, and agricultural schools. (MH)

The physical education programs at the State University of New York College at Brockport demonstrate that professional and liberal studies in physical education are related in that they are concerned with physical activity, dance, exercise, and sport. (CJ)