An attempt is made to describe the overall general process of moral development as consisting in the movement from heteronomy to autonomy through a period of socialization into conventional norms. Using Kohlberg's developmental model as a reference point, the implications for moral education in schools are elaborated. (Editor/RK)

The essence of this article is that those students whose cognitive abilities have been developed by classroom activities and testing procedures are those students who have been taught to think critically. (Author)

Article attempts to close the gap between the terms "humanities" and "humanities education," between scholars and practitioners, between a body of content for study and the process by which that content is taught. (Author/RK)

Examines some adult ideas about books suitable for children. (Editor)

The author, in his motivation research, exuded the feeling that the clinical supervisor, through the correct process of motivating teachers and students, could indeed promote instructional improvement and with it, learning. Through his input-process-outcome model he proposed a better fit between the nature of human motivation and the logic of…

Author calls for a radical reappraisal of the nursery school curriculum. (Editor/RK)

The perspective that educational institutions will become potentially potent agents for cultural change within ten years seems plausible. Should we not then consider how formal education can best be used for conscious social restructuring? (Author/RK)

Many educators, and others, wonder if the schools can or should bring about change in our social order. Or should the schools follow the lead of politicians, economists, advertisers...? Discusses the issues from an optimist's viewpoint. (Editor/RK)

Attempts a brief analysis of the traditional decision-making process for budget preparation and the alternative, program planning, budgeting system (PPBS), in an effort to determine the effect of PPBS on the decision-making process for resource allocation and to answer the question of whether PPBS has improved decision-making processes. (Author/RK)

After analyzing the speech-act theory (Austin & Searle) with examples from French, the article attempts to state the teaching goals more precisely. Studying the findings of pragmalinguistics can help to minimize the discrepancy between the communication situation in the foreign country and the classroom situation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

State legislatures have demanded hard figures on what their dollars are producing in the schools. Today, 43 states have some sort of assessment program. (Author/MLF)

Refers to a critique of FL teaching at Secondary Grade 2; discusses questions of teaching objectives, organization and content of curricula, sequence of foreign languages taught, and effects of the upper level reforms on Secondary Grade 1. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This analysis concerns the development and use of a model for evaluating student outcomes involving a school-associated planetarium. The model concerns three basic goal areas; the cognitive, affective, and process skill areas. The test data analyzed on elementary, secondary and college levels found little positive correlation between goal areas.…

The use of metaphors in educational writings is criticized when it functions to create ambiguity or to substitute emotional appeals for rational analysis. (GW)