Education & Pedagogy

These Connecticut vocational and technical performance standards and competencies are a guide for overall quality attainment in these seven vocational and technical program areas: agricultural science technology education; business and finance technology education; cooperative work education; family and consumer sciences education; marketing education; medical careers education; and technology education. For these program areas, 17 subject area standards and competencies have been determined. This document is intended to assist local districts in raising expectations, upgrading and improving vocational and technical curriculum and instruction, promoting growth in student achievement, and preparing students effectively for the vocational and technical education statewide assessments. Each program area consists of 1-7 subject areas of concentration or content areas. A content measure is provided for each content area. Each content area consists of performance standards with related competencies for each standard. (YLB)

Educational priorities in New York State are described in this report. Legislation affecting education is summarized. A statistical profile of enrollments and expenditures is given. Aspects of elementary, secondary, and continuing education are discussed. The discussion of higher and professional education includes a progress report on the statewide plan; regionalism; improving institutional management; State aid to nonpublic colleges; medical and dental education; improving doctoral education; external degrees and college proficiency; higher education opportunity programs (HEOP); noncollegiate sponsored instruction; protecting the consumer in the professions; financial assistance to students; self assessment for colleges and universities; and teacher education and certification. The section on cultural education covers the State Museum, mass communications; the State Library, the State Archives; and the State Science Service. Vocational rehabilitation is discussed briefly. (Author/MC)

In volume 1, the Commissioner of Education introduces topics to be covered in the report and discusses the Bureau of Education's work. Chapter 1 concerns current education topics, including education boards and commissions, education associations, higher education, education standardization, public schools, departments and branches of study, religious and ethical education, coeducation, rifle practice in schools, the Boy Scouts of America, school savings banks, health and hygiene, compulsory education and child-labor laws, education of the colored race, international education relations, and international education congresses. Chapter 2 covers education legislation including appropriations and miscellaneous enactments. Subsequent chapters address agricultural education, U.S. insular education, foreign education, American delegate reports from international congresses, and education periodicals. Also included is a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, single-sex and coeducational college and university presidents, school of technology presidents, university and college pedagogy department heads and professors, and normal school principals. [For Volume II, see ED620904.]

Philosophy of education has had difficulty finding its proper role in recent years. It has been seen as too removed from educational matters, irrelevant to teacher and administrator training, and fostering skepticism and radical ideas. However, philosophy is a way to make educational leaders and teachers more rational and critical in their thinking and acting about education. Philosophy's emphasis on clarity, purpose, criticism, and justification are tools with which educators can accomplish their work effectively by presenting visions of what educators and schools should be and detailing criticisms of current efforts to realize these visions. This publication begins with a brief history of the philosophy of education and a discussion of the teaching of philosophy of education. The following eight chapters address content areas of education. Each chapter is divided into two large sections, first covering the philosophy of education in a specific content area from a historical or classical perspective, and then from a contemporary perspective. The eight content areas included are: (1) intellectual education; (2) moral education; (3) aesthetic education; (4) religious education; (5) political education; (6) vocational education; (7) physical education; and (8) special education. (Contains 244 references.) (ND)

The final report summarizes the proceedings of the Midwest Conference on the Education of Hispanics, the last in a series of five regional working conferences sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. All five keynote addresses, which provide an overview of Hispanic education, are summarized. Nine individual presentations and discussions concerned: Hispanics in higher education in the Midwest; a framework for bilingual education public policy analysis in the United States; expansion of and differentiation in the higher education system; a review of the problems, programs, and policies of career/vocational education for Hispanics; the exceptional Hispanic; working with the community in bilingual education; migrant education; psychological services and counseling for Latino children; Hispanic students and the interface between desegregation and bilingual education in three major midwestern school districts. Recommendations cover: higher education; community colleges; funding; bilingual career, vocational, and technical education; bilingual special education; education and parent and community involvement; migrant education, psychological services and counseling; and desegregation. The conference evaluation and a list of participants are appended. (AH)

This document contains the October 1949 through June 1950 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, atomic energy education, education media, school sanitation, veterans' education and training, adult education, legislation before Congress, public health, education finance, foreign schools and education systems, education association activities, education in disciplines, education theory, citizenship and public affairs, and new education books. A volume XXXII index is included.

This annotated bibliography identifies 136 selected educational materials from Egypt published in 1978. The materials are drawn from Egyptian newspapers, journals, government publications, and university research reports. Entries are organized into 69 categories, including Arabic languages, basic education, child education, child psychology, curricula, dramatic education, educational activities, faculties and universities, international children's year, educational management, laws and legislation, population education, private education, religious education, sports education, technical education, textbooks, teachers, pupils, special education, scholarships, preparatory schools, school meals, school buildings, students, and women. (CK)

Current and future status of issues in health education are discussed in thirteen articles by health educators. The topics of the essays are: (1) holistic health; (2) a holistic approach to stress reduction; (3) stress management education; (4) heart disease education; (5) consumer health education; (6) acceptance of traditional, nonscientific healing; (7) sexism and agism; (8) education for healthy sexuality; (9) alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco; (10) drug education; (11) death education; (12) internationalizing health education; and (13) teaching values in the health education curriculum. (FG)

Government publications, monographs, and newspaper and journal articles dealing with education in Pakistan are cited in this annotated bibliography. All items included were published between April and June 1982. Entries are listed alphabetically under the following subject headings: administration, organization, and financing of education; curriculum; education goals; elementary secondary education; examinations; higher education; languages; libraries; literacy; children's literature; medical education; professional education; science education; teachers; technical education; women's education; general; and textbooks. The publication concludes with an author index. (LP)

Colleges of education must revise their teacher education programs to serve the needs of career education, according to the authors, who discuss preservice and inservice program needs, the value of cooperation with educational agencies and the community, and teacher education research needs. (MF)

Traces general educational changes over the last 20 years, summarizes past and present uses of computers in education, and identifies the impact microelectronics will have on present and future education. Discusses vocational training, availability of inexpensive educational resources, teaching methods, and teacher education. (DC)

The concepts of education for capability, education for enterprise, and entrepreneurship education are outlined in terms of curriculum development. The paper studies the conceptual problems involved and presents a synthesis in the form of suggestions for curriculum development in enterprise/entrepreneurship education across the spectrum of general education, prevocational education, vocational education and training, and adult retraining/continuing education. (Author/CT)

Describes history and benefits of outdoor education, focusing on Northern Illinois University's Outdoor Teacher Education Program, on the Loredo Taft Field Campus. Examines opportunities and importance of outdoor education, especially for elementary students. Notes opportunities for postgraduate outdoor education field studies and adventure education programs. Includes reference list. (TES)

Focuses on the role of music education in a general education. Reviews music education from ancient times to the twentieth century. Argues that effective instruction in music education and the arts is an essential part of a complete education. Appends the chronological developments in music education and goals of arts education. (DB)

This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the library of the Bureau of Education in January 1916. The listing includes contents organized in these categories: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Pedagogics and didactics; (5) Educational psychology: Child study; (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 hygiene and sanitation; (15) Physical training; (16) Play and playgrounds; (17) Social aspects of education; (18) Religious education; (19) Manual and vocational training; (20) Vocational guidance; (21) Agricultural education: Home economics; (22) Commercial education; (23) Professional education; (24) Civic education; (25) Military training; (26) Education of women; (27) Negro education; (28) Education of deaf; (29) Exceptional children; (30) Education extension; and (31) Libraries and bibliography. [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.]