Purpose: While the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and visions for sustainability education apply to many methods, they can be hard to put into practice. This study aims to concern an undergraduate geography course designed not only to teach geographical methods but also to engage with the multi-scalar nature of the SDGs and apply them to…

The current state of the planet's environmental deterioration calls for formal educational contexts to implement effective environmental proposals which nurture action competence. The aim of this paper is to examine the educational proposals in formal contexts that have been published in the two research journals of greatest impact on…

This article describes an initiative to provide IS management a capstone course that builds on the zone of proximal development concept, oriented towards developing prioritization and critical reasoning skills, and to promote self-learning. Request for proposal business cases appear to offer effective mechanisms for retaining context, while…

Author argued that an ethical component should be written into any outline for the examination of candidates for licensing as administrators and supervisors. (Author/RK)

Who and what are school records? How accurate and fair is the information teachers put in them? Should parents and pupils be allowed access to such documents? Author has examined the files of 600 children, and is disturbed by what he finds there. (Editor/RK)

States that the role of the Federal Communications Commission should be to provide direction and encouragement for the television networks to adopt self-regulatory reforms, rather than to provide strict regulation itself. The "family viewing" plan is a result of the networks' attempts at self-regulation. (Editor/RK)

"Sophomoritis" is identified as a period of adolescent development concerned primarily with raising all kinds of moral questions but also doubting all answers. Criticism is leveled at educational institutions for implicitly supporting sophomoritis. Proposes a course utilizing the students' natural development, together with the conceptual…

Presents a critical appraisal of the American Federation of Teachers manual for the installation of day care in the public schools. Maintains that the difficulties of retraining elementary teachers for preschool programs, a crucial part of the AFT's proposals, are much greater than the AFT envisions. Also considers the variety of services…

Presents an edited selection of points from an address concerning the present range of the NFER'S activities and other suggestions and comments from the forum's delegates. (Author/RK)

Focuses on two of the proposed schemes in the International Baccalaureate Program's "The World Literature Teachers' Guide" (Geneva, 1972): that which examines the emergence of the individual in the Renaissance and the concept of the Absurd in contemporary literature. (Author/RK)

Attempts a definition of terms and a brief analysis of the philosophical considerations surrounding grading followed by a detailed discussion of specific techniques for assigning grades. (Author/RK)

The new policy for higher education is bound to bring about a deterioration in opportunity, but assessment is difficult because the paper itself is too vague argues the author. (Editor/RK)

Takes issue with two concepts of teaching art history in elementary and secondary schools, reveals selected resources which are readily available for teaching art history, and makes recommendations for the implementation of art history programs where they do not exist and for the improvement of programs where they are to be already found.…