Through aesthetic education, students become sensitized to reason, beauty, and excellence as they relate to human feeling. Aesthetic education can be justified for everyone as a paradigm of education itself. The study of music is the most effective method of teaching aesthetic perception. (RM)

Two students talk about the place of music education in their lives. For many students with little time or money, school classes are the only means of acquiring a music education. These classes teach discipline and cooperation and provide a sense of accomplishment. (CS)

While finding that the need for literacy and coordinated cooperation between developing countries, international organizations, and "donor" agencies is imperative, the author finds that abolishing illiteracy is possible only in the context of eradicating hunger, poverty, and oppression; the priorities are elsewhere. (SK)

Athletics have become too dominant on the contemporary educational scene and must be put back into a position from which they can contribute to the development of our youth without interfering with their academic growth. (Author/PGD)

Four uses of humanities studies are discussed: applicative, replicative, associative, and interpretive. (RM)

Creativity requires the freshness and openness of a childlike vision. By teaching and encouraging children to write creatively, to write poetry, teachers are helping them to respond and react to the world about them and to understand it verbally. (RM)

Literature, properly conceived and properly taught, is vital to the task of engendering a people who feel and act on sympathy, on compassion and understanding. This is man's best education. (Author/RK)

Author pinpoints what he believes to be a legitimate complaint about today's schools and suggests what the underlying cause is for this shortcoming. (Author/RK)

Lists the goals and features of the successful alternative schools program in Philadelphia, as well as the differences between alternative schools and traditional schools. (IRT)

Purpose shapes vision and vision shapes purpose. Any reasonable effort to restructure schools must begin with a serious consideration of the purposes of education. In chapter 1, purpose in the life of organizations is examined. Chapter 2 shows how historical circumstances have shaped both the purpose and the structure of schools. Chapter 3…

This study refutes Edward A. Krug's view of the primary authorship of the document created by the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education in 1918. In general, the commission endorsed cardinal principles that emphasized the practical over the intellectual as well as the importance of social control and social efficiency. The…

This volume is an attempt to articulate a taxonomy of educational objectives that uses the best available research and theory accumulated since the publication of the taxonomy of educational objectives of B. Bloom and others in 1956. Like Bloom's taxonomy, this taxonomy defines six levels of mental processing: self-system thinking (Level 6);…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…