As a means of shedding light on the virtue of the legal system, this article investigates the role and nature of professional legal training on the development of the law and the legal profession in the United States. Topics discussed include curriculum, intellectual premises, values, case method teaching, and the role of the American Bar Society.…

Relates the history of ideas to the history of education during the middle ages. Topics discussed include cultural life, economic factors, the political economy of medieval education, and the difficulty of writing about educational trends during a time for which there are few authoritative sources. (DB)

As a result of the overemphasis being given to applied science and technology, students are narrowing their range of activities, suggesting that education should be reinstated as an effort to broaden horizons rather than constrict them. (HOD)

Educators in Virginia were asked to identify instructional objectives in social studies for grades K-12. Results indicated that the grades K-3 should focus on affective educational goals, grades 4-6 goals should emphasize cognitive outcomes, grade 7-8 goals should stress skill development and cognitive educational objectives, and grades 9-12…

Provides a critique and a defense of Maryland's Project Basic, a curriculum design that uses adult activities as the source of objectives for the curriculum. (Author/MLF)

Presents Efland's reply to Charles Dorn's article (November 1981) in which Dorn argues that the goal of an art curriculum incorporating studio work, art history, and criticism has not been realized and is undesirable. Efland supports school art curricula which integrates history and criticism with real-world applications. (AM)

Discusses the need for and development of a secondary course in death education focusing on general goals, the need for objectivity and sensitivity, major causes of death for teenagers (accidents, suicide) and a wide range of important topics, questions, and resources. (DC)

Discusses, at times with tongue in cheek, the American educational system, its goals, historical development, and current status. Offers nine questions that should be addressed in planning for public schools. (WD)

The harder a teacher works, the less human s/he becomes, but the more "professional" s/he will appear. Implied in this statement is a faith in management techniques and systematized curricula, which leaves little room for human diversity and teaching artistry, and which neglects love of learning and passion for understanding. (SK)

The loss of consensus, community, and a sense of purpose in America has led to students' confusion and frantic search for diversion. Educators need to restore a sense of order in students' lives by teaching the core values of civilization and returning to education the excitement of learning. (RW)

Presents five generalizations from social science research relating to the teaching of social studies and the cognitive domain as well as their possible implications for teachers. Concludes that more research is needed and that social studies teachers must pose questions for researchers to answer. (CK)

Suggests that social studies classroom teachers should use the process of rational decision making to teach students how to think at higher intellectual levels, become more creative, clarify values, and increase moral development. Learning activities are described. (DB)

Examines a psychology course intended to teach graduate students how to develop and run groups for training in helping skills, human relations, assertion training, weight reduction, and anxiety management. (DB)

These excerpts present some of the views of noted musician and music educator, Howard Hanson, on the purposes and goals of public school music education. (SJL)

Proposed are several new directions that encourage the variety and flexibility of haphazard teaching and the precision of one objective-one activity teaching in the design of activities for handicapped preschoolers. Journal availability: see EC 133 846. (Author)