There is ample evidence that Confucianism is undergoing a multi-faceted revival in contemporary China. This can be seen in government slogans, in a runaway best seller on the "Analects" (the compendium of Confucius's teachings), in educational experiments, and in academic activities. The twentieth century was a bad century for…

This article explores an educational experiment mounted at a public school for girls in Bristol in the 1920s and 1930s. In examining the aims and methods of the Badminton School for girls in this period it aims to do two things. The first is to analyse the relationship between the gendered, class-based and nationalist values of the public school…

FOUR ESSAYS, EACH BY A DIFFERENT AUTHOR, PRESENT PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. TOGETHER THESE ESSAYS PROVIDE AN INSIGHT INTO THE PURPOSES OF BOTH THOSE WHO SEEK INNOVATION AND THOSE WHO RESIST IT, A SUMMARY OF RECENT INNOVATIONS CURRENTLY IN OPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS OF…

Article outlines the experiments, research and innovations stemming from the search for ways of involving pupils at first hand in the stuff of history. (Author/CB)

Essay attempts to summarize a portion of the impact of the new technology upon the total structure of higher education in America, as mankind's third great revolution has come full circle and tools of its emergence are now, if grudgingly, being felt upon the university campus. (Author/CB)

In an effort to share American thinking on the topic of voucher plans with British educationists, this article summarizes and explains the educational experiments in America and opens up issues which were uncovered in the process. (Author)

Article discussed an instructors' educational reforms and his attempts to develop student individuality. (RK)

In all fairness, administrators who have implemented innovative" programs should provide candid, down-to-earth descriptions and analyses of these programs to other educators seeking panaceas for educational ills -- only after such programs have been tried and found worthwhile. (EA)

The purpose of this research was to determine if students taking the experimental course, Crises in Human Relations, showed significant reductions in dogmatism and if changes occurred, how these changes compared to those found for other students exposed to specified University experiences and for control groups. (Author)

Elitism" is the author's term for avoiding needless pushing of young men and women beyond their levels of intellectual endurance and interest. (Editor/MB)

An historical account of the efforts of Alice Barrow to implement the platoon school system (developed in Gary, Indiana, by William Wirt) in New York City during the period 1914-1917. (EH)