States that students often enter college with few problem-solving skills. Urges colleges to offer appropriate skills-building courses to students as well as to school personnel, since they will be counseling students on financial aid and other issues. Asserts that, by integrating problem-solving skills into the curriculum, students will be better…

One of the most important educational objectives of high school is to teach critical-thinking skills, and no class does this better than strategic debate. Professor Mike Allen, lead author in a definitive study on debate and critical thinking, lauded debate's promotion of critical-thinking skills. Additionally, researcher Joe Bellon discusses the…

Education plays a central role in contemporary social development and change. The educational system in a given society assumes a major role in human development by making available to the individual the necessary equipment for interfacing with the network of social relations. In both developed and developing countries, education increasingly has…

The author, head of a small primary school in Leicestershire, discussed here his changing approach to primary education, and found the small school well adapted to realizing his objectives. (Editor/RK)

A dean, convinced of the importance of the student as a person, makes a strong and candid critique of existing attitudes towards the student. (Editor)

Discussed the educational policy of Harcum Junior College where the Harcum student is offered a living-learning environment in which policies regarding academic life and living are sufficiently flexible to allow for growing self-responsibility and decision-making. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the interrelations and interactiions between schools and colleges in promoting education for those over 16. (Author/RK)

THE AUTHOR STATES THAT DETERMINING THE CRITERIA RELEVANT TO THE EDUCATION PROCESS IS EQUIVALENT TO DEFINING OBJECTIVES OF HIGHER EDUCATION. THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO DEFINING CRITERIA HAS BEEN TO SPECIFY FROM CONCEPTUAL CRITERIA (EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES), THE CRITERION PERFORMANCE. AN IMPROVED APPROACH USES A CLASSIFICATION SCHEME TO ORGANIZE THE…

A model for expansion of educational objectives beyond the usual narrow focus on low-level cognitive abilities and the transmission of facts is suggested. A brief definition of the three domains--psychomotor (doing), cognitive (thinking), and affective (feeling)--is given, and it is pointed out that affect (Feelings) is present with either…

Described is a secondary school, risk recreation program based on adventure, cooperation, direct experience, and personality integration. The three-phase program (physical preparation, group trust, rope courses) offers students the experience of working in groups and of testing themselves against the real world. (MJB)

The Jefferson County, Colorado, public schools (Jeffco) have offered an arts in general education program since 1971. Its intent is to infuse the entire curriculum, K-12, with arts activities and perspectives. (Author/RK)

The challenge for multicultural education is to provide an educational experience which will help develop and maintain multicultural competencies, often in opposition to negative multicultural educational influences of the societal curriculum. Presents a model of the multicultural skills, attitudes, and knowledge competencies that teachers should…

This is a study of the way in which moral education was added to the Bavarian curriculum in 1972. Attention is drawn to certain inconsistencies, and it is suggested that these reflect the ambiguous position of the school in a parliamentary democracy whose commitment to pluralism remains partial. (Editor/RK)

The traditional college curriculum is seen as a collection of answers for students who do not yet have the questions; an alternative approach that nurtures students' capacities for inquiry is suggested and outlined. (MSE)