Increasing questions about the value and efficacy of aquatic and boating education programs have led to demands for scientifically based guidance for improving and evaluating those programs. The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation commissioned 11 aquatic, environmental, and outdoor education professionals to provide summaries of research…

This book provides a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in…

Misconceptions of what teacher accountability really is are explored here, along with some valid expectations of the concept. (Editor)

Discusses a report produced by a commission set up by the Japan Council of Economic Research on the long term study of human development in the new industrial society. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this paper was to review some of the concepts concerning accreditation in higher education and to make an attempt to determine the influence of accrediting practices upon the college and university curriculum. (Author)

Version of a paper presented at a conference on Religion in Education,'' held May, 1970, in Santa Barbara, California, under the auspices of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation. (DS)

This report on the Contemporary Music Project focuses on the principles of comprehensive musicianship. (Author)

Part One of a report on author's recent visit to the Peoples' Republic of China. (Editor/RY)

Rather than change the education system to make it more humanistic, authors advocate altering teachers' philosophies. (AF)

The reciprocal processes of concept formation in terms of what the student does and concept teaching in terms of what the teacher does. (Editor)

The role of Russian teacher unions during the years of the Revolution and civil war in organizing initial opposition to the new Soviet order and in defeating that opposition is discussed. A historical rationale for the fundamental principles that underlie Soviet educational policies today is presented. (RM)

This essay draws together various ideas on education that appear in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and demonstrates how these ideas relate to Hegel's total philosophy. Education, by retracing the path of the mind's self-realization, raises the individual's subjective consciousness to recognition of the rationality underlying social…

Teacher education should equip tomorrow's teachers with academic, instructional, and developmental understandings. A three-dimensional teacher education model focusing on these understandings is proposed, and components of each dimension are discussed. (PP)