Education & Pedagogy

Discusses the purposes and scope of aerospace education and briefly describes programs at the elementary, secondary, and higher education levels. (MLH)

The "quantum jump" is the jump from outdoor education and conservation education to the broader and somewhat different concept of environmental education. (JC)

This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education in October 1916. The listing includes contents organized in these categories: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history and biography; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Educational theory and practice; (5) Educational psychology: Child study; (6) Special subjects of curriculum; (7) Rural education; (8) Secondary education; (9) Teachers: Training and professional status; (10) Higher education; (11) School administration; (12) School management; (13) School hygiene and sanitation; (14) Physical training; (15) Play and playgrounds; (16) Social aspects of education; (17) Moral education; (18) Religious education; (19) Manual and vocational training; (20) Vocational guidance; (21) Agricultural education; (22) Home economics; (23) Commercial education; (24) Professional education; (25) Military training; (26) Boy scouts; (27) Exceptional children; and (28) Libraries and reading. [Compiled by the Library Division, Bureau of Education. Best copy available has been provided.]

Books and articles listed in this bulletin are organized into the following topic areas: (1) Educational history and biography; (2) Current educational conditions; (3) Pedagogics and didactics; (4) Educational psychology, Child study; (5) Special methods of instruction; (6) Special subjects of curriculum; (7) Kindergarten and primary school; (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) Sex hygiene; (17) Physical training; (18) Social aspects of education; (19) Child welfare; (20) Moral and religious education; (21) Manual and vocational training; (22) Agricultural education; (23) Professional education; (24) Education of women; (25) Negro education; (26) Libraries and reading; (27) Bureau of Education: Recent publications. An index of periodicals listed in the bulletin is included. [Compiled by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education, Under the Direction of John D. Wolcott, Acting Librarian. Best copy available has been provided.]

This document provides guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of a district-specific career education program for special education students. Part I lists 10 activities to design, implement, and evaluate a cost-effective career education program. Examples are included of the outcome of each activity. Activities are as follows: establish a career education committee, develop district career education goals, describe the current special education and vocational education programs, conduct an assessment of community and educational resources, develop a career education program, develop career education curriculum topics, receive staff input regarding the program, conduct a workshop to initiate the program, evaluate program effectiveness, and revise the program. Part II contains an example of a district's career education goals, data collection instruments (current special education and vocational education programs; special education's vocational education program and services; vocational services to special education students in vocational education personnel; parent, student, and graduate attitudes about special education program; employing special education students in community businesses; services to special education students by community agencies; program effectiveness feedback form), and examples of a career education program and career education curriculum topics. Appendixes include an architectural checklist, a glossary, and a 20-page bibliography. (YLB)

This index lists business education articles, research studies, and textbooks that were compiled from a selected list of periodicals, publishers, and yearbooks published during 1987. A total of 19 general publications and 48 periodicals were indexed. The materials are indexed under 94 subject headings, including the following: accounting, administration and supervision, adult education, associations, automation, basic business education, business arithmetic, business English, business law, business organization and management, business schools, certification, consumer education, data processing, dictation, distributive education, economics, elementary and junior high schools, employment, ethics, evaluation, follow-up studies, guidance, high school, human relations, information processing, international business education, junior colleges, marketing, microcomputers, occupational information, office management, office training, programmed instruction, public relations, reading, records management, reprographics, research, salesmanship, simulation, special education, teacher education, testing, time management, transcription, typewriting, vocational education, women, and work experience. Materials are indexed under author and subject entries. The names and addresses of periodicals and publishers are included. (MN)

A study collected information about research on adult education conducted in Canada from 1983-1988 and identified themes that emerged from the research studies, projects, and activities. Sources of information searched were electronic databases, bibliographic compilations of reports and articles in adult education and related fields, journals, and proceedings from adult education research conferences. The searches yielded 529 entries that were coded by area of adult education to which they referred, the type of learner involved, and topic of interest. The document includes approximately 92 pages of references on studies produced at universities and approximately 28 pages of nonuniversity research. The entries are arranged by the following themes: continuing education/general adult education, postsecondary/higher education, continuing professional/vocational education, vocational education, adult basic education/literacy education, language education, health education, distance education, postsecondary students, adult learners, special needs students, native Canadians, visible minorities/immigrants, women, older adults (university section only), teachers of adults, student attrition/accessibility/participation, program development/evaluation, adult learning, adult development, theoretical bases of adult education, policy, teaching strategies, history of adult education in Canada, and the use of media and technology in adult education. (CML)

Reports results of a survey of industrial teacher education departments in colleges and universities to ascertain the number involved in competency-based teacher education and the extent of their involvement. Responses indicate that the majority of the departments are preparing teachers to develop and conduct competency-based education programs. (MF)

Implications of the Higher Education Amendments are summarized regarding student aid, facilities, child care, libraries, community development, continuing and cooperative education, developing institutions, disadvantaged students, education research and development, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, graduate education, international education, migrant-aid programs, teacher training, veterans' cost-of-instruction programs. (MSE)

The 304 citations listed in this bibliography address 10 topics: societal context; educational equality; educational quality; goals and curriculum reform; science, mathematics, and technological development; teaching service and reform; increasing school effectiveness; new technology and nonformal education; schooling and problems of transition; retraining and recurrent education. Annotations are in English. (CLB)

Discusses 10 areas associated with the social context and operations of secondary education, as well as issues and responses being addressed by educational systems across the world. Common patterns are identified and provide a framework for a discussion of changes in international secondary education. (CLB)

This document reviews the development of comprehensive community colleges in Michigan and sets forth recommended State Board of Education policies and Michigan Department of Education proposals to support and implement them. Issues addressed include open access, low tuition, geographical barriers, occupational education, general education, developmental/remedial education, continuing education, professional development of occupational education instructors, and articulation. (DC)

Urging continued high priority support to preservice and inservice professional development, especially in the area of agricultural education, the author responds to a letter from the Joint Committee on Vocational Education for the State of California indicating the committee's consideration of support reduction for teacher education in vocational education. (BM)

The teacher training program in bilingual special education at George Mason University (Virginia) trains bilingual special education teachers alongside their regular and special education couterparts. The program produces special education teachers conversant in bilingual issues and bilingual special educators specifically skilled in second language acquisition, cultural variance, and related content. (Author/CB)