Education & Pedagogy

Components and content of physical education programs are outlined; characteristics of effective programs are identified, and trends and influences affecting physical education teacher education are discussed. (IAH)

Discusses the role of universities in providing adult and continuing education programs. Includes sections on teaching educational science as distance education, summer universities, liberal adult education, and older students. (JOW)

Vocational education at the elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and continuing education levels in the Netherlands, receiving particular emphasis in response to needs expressed in educational policy making, is described in this article. (JH)

Discusses the problems associated with postdoctoral medical education: length of time to attain degrees, appropriateness of the education, and discontent in the final professional practice. (PG)

Author describes development in many states of committees organized to deal with a new environment in education and to promote aerospace general education and aerospace career education. (MB)

Article defined the meaning of special education and the problems in providing programs in special education that are taught by qualified personnel. (RK)

The author discusses secondary vocational education programs and work study programs for adults in Sweden. (Author/RM)

The report provides abstracted reports from state, territorial, and city school officers. Information is also given on Indian education, educational conventions and institutes, education of the deaf and dumb, and education of the blind, as well as an annual review of foreign education. Special articles discuss education in the Hawaiian Islands, the value of common-school education for common labor, the relationship between crime and education, the relationship between education and pauperism, and suggestions on art training in American colleges. Statistical tables cover states' and territories' enrollment, attendance, and school duration; city education; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; secondary education institutions; U.S. Military Academy and Naval Academy admissions examinations, U.S. colleges; female colleges; agricultural and scientific, theology, law, medical, dental, and pharmaceutical schools; U.S. libraries; museums; educational benefactions; institutions for the blind and for the deaf and dumb; penitentiaries and jails; reformatories; orphan asylums; patents for school furniture, stationery and writing supplies, equipment, and physical plant features; educational publications; and census-derived statistics.

This bulletin contains monthly record of current educational publications received by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education. Books, pamphlets, etc., intended for inclusion in this record should be sent to the library of the Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C. This bulletin contains the following: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Pedagogics and didactics; (5) Educational psychology; Child study; (6) Special method of instruction; (7) Special subjects of curriculum; (8) Kindergarten and primary school; (9) Rural education; (10) Secondary education; (11) Teachers: training and professional status; (12) Higher education; (13) School administration; (14) School management; (15) School architecture; (16) School hygiene and sanitation; (17) Physical training; (18) Social aspects of education; (20) Moral and religious education; (21) Manual and vocational training; (22) Vocational guidance; (23) Agricultural education; (24) Home economics; (25) Commercial education; (26) Professional education; (27) Military education; (28) Education of women; (29) Exceptional children; (Educational extension; (30) Libraries and reading; and (31) Bureau of Education: Recent publications. [Compiled by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education. Best copy available has been provided.]

Some prominent books of the month are listed in this bulletin. With this issue, the record suspends publication for the months of July and August. Following the Introductory Notes, the publications are organized into the following topics: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Pedagogics and didactics; (5) Educational psychology: Child study; (6) Special methods of instruction; (7) Special subjects of curriculum; (8) Rural education; (9) Secondary education; (10) Teachers: Training and professional status; (11) Higher education; (12) School administration; (13) School management; (14) School architecture; (15) School hygiene and sanitation; (16) Play and playgrounds; (17) Social aspects of education; (18) Child welfare; (19) Moral education; (20) Religious education; (21) Manual and vocational training; (22) Vocational guidance; (23) Agricultural education; (24) Commercial education; (25) Professional education; (26) Military training; (27) Education of women; (28) Negro education; (29) Defective children; (30) Libraries and reading; and (31) Education extension. [Compiled by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education, Under the Direction of John D. Wolcott, Chief of Division. Best copy available has been provided.]

The 16 conference papers are: Continuing Education History of Pennsylvania State University Associate Degree Graduates; A Mere Matter of Words (defining adult education); History of Adult and Continuing Education in Vocational Education; Adult and Continuing Vocational Education: Past, Present, and Future; Lifelong Learning: A Systematic Approach in Health Occupations Education; The Role of the Area Vocational-Technical School and the Community College in Continuing Education and Community Services; Continuing and Adult Education: Role of the Community College; Implementing a Management-by-Objectives System; Problems in Counseling the Vocational Adult and Continuing Education Student; Continuing and Adult Education in Correctional Institutions; The Changing Role of Adult and Continuing Education for Women; The Role of the Private Junior College in Continuing and Adult Education in Vocational Education; Client Influence on Organizational Priorities: The Role of Adult and Continuing Education in Vocational Education in the Urban Community College; The Role of Research in Adult Vocational Education; The Implications of Adult and Continuing Education; and Rural and Migrant Health Aides: Expanding Health Occupations Curricula at the Postsecondary Level. A conference evaluation (based on a questionnaire included in the appendix) and the conference format, speakers, registration list, and advisory committee list are included. (AG)

In China, schools of a vocational nature are becoming increasingly important because of the needs of the developing socialist cause, and they are rapidly increasing in number. Some people maintain that vocational education and general education are identical in terms of theory and principle and that issues of vocational education can be resolved simply by researching general education. Although higher vocational education and general education are identical in terms of a number of the most basic theories--such as the substance of education, the objectives of communist education, the basic principles of the education process, and the basic principles and contents of moral education--the two are different on many important issues and require special research. In this article, the author discusses the difference between vocational education and general education, and between higher education and secondary or elementary education. The author also discusses the important position of the issue of higher vocational education in pedagogy. (Contains 4 notes.)

This easy-to-use introduction explores all of the contemporary issues and enduring themes in physical education, focusing on the United Kingdom but incorporating a global dimension. The wide range of topics covered include: (1) the requirements of National Curriculum Physical Education; (2) the current "state" of physical education; (3) the relationship between physical education and sport; (4) extra-curricular physical education; (5) lifelong participation in sport and physical activity; (6) assessment and examinations in physical education; (7) social class, gender, ethnicity and inclusion in relation to physical education; and (8) teacher training and continuing professional development. The book contains twelve chapters: (1) The Nature and Purposes of Physical Education; (2) Policy and Physical Education; (3) The "State" of Physical Education; (4) Extra-Curricular Physical Education; (5) Assessment and Examinations in Physical Education; (6) Health and Physical Education; (7) Youth Sport and Physical Education; (8) Gender and Physical Education; (9) Social Class and Physical Education; (10) Ethnicity and Physical Education; (11) Disability and Physical Education; and (12) Teaching Physical Education.

This anthology contains papers on the following aspects of Romanian adult education: principal stages and achievements of mass cultural education; continuing education; emotional and motivational aspects of educational psychology; adult self-education; age differences and psychological problems in learning; ideals of Socialist education in contemporary Romanian society; educational sociology; current trends in popular scientific and cultural education; issues in technical and scientific education; international cooperation on adult education problems; the role of the teaching profession in mass education; the integration of skilled vocational school graduates into an industrial setting; family life education for young people; the Bucharest Popular University; nineteenth century cultural associations and societies; contributions to adult education by a Romanian sociologist, Dimitrie Gusti; workers' clubs of Romania (1890-1900); mass labor education in the late 1800's and early 1900's; mass education by the Romanian Communist Party between World Wars I and II; and national traditions in mass cultural education. Statistics, references, and abstracts in Russian and English are included. (ly)

Investigated was the relationship of environmental education to ecological education, outdoor education, conservation education, environmentalized education, and general education. Goals selected from the literature were analyzed to obtain 60 goals representing each of the 6 areas. Using a Q-sort procedure, 65 selected individuals, representing the 6 areas, rank-ordered the goal statements. The resulting scores were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and one-way analysis of variance followed by Scheffe's Test. The results show that goals describing man's relationship to and utilization of the environment were ranked high by all groups. Goals describing specific subjects such as health, population growth, and outdoor science were ranked low by most groups. Personal data, education, and occupation related to the rankings of the environmental education and environmentalized education categories. A model developed to illustrate the relationship between the 6 groups is presented. The model shows environmental education overlapping the 5 other areas, with strong overlaps with conservation education and environmentalized education. (BT)