Supports the premise that drug education should be goal oriented, and that different student goals require the use of different teaching strategies. An overview of six student goals and six corresponding teaching strategies relevant to drug education is presented. (BL)

Explicates the goals of a counselor education curriculum, including sensitizing counselors to ethical issues, improving their ability to make ethical judgments, encouraging responsible ethical actions, and tolerating the ambiguity of ethical decision making. (Author/BL)

Criticizes the conclusions of the National Commission on Excellence in Education report, with its emphasis on "basic" skills. Humanists believe that children possess insatiable curiosity and have an inner sense of direction. It is imagination, initiative, and idiosyncracy which should be encouraged, not passive memorizing of facts. (CS)

A rationale for using field trips to correctional institutions in an abnormal psychology class is presented. Also discussed are reasons why, over the years, student interest in these field trips has declined. (RM)

An answer to the question, What is the paramount value of art, the value that justifies its inclusion in the school curriculum? is provided, using the writings of A. C. Bradley and Susanne K. Langer. Implications for teaching the arts are given. (RM)

Utopian societies can actually demonstrate some essential needs for community life. In this sociology course students read utopian literature and then investigated the lessons gleaned from their study of the utopian societies through experiential learning projects, e.g., participant observation of dorm life, leadership simulations, and utopian…

R. S. Peters's paper, "Reason and Habit: The Paradox of Moral Education," is used as a medium through which to explore the paradox of education. An argument against the theory of just one developmental paradox of education is presented. Four paradoxes, consisting of the basic, stultification, conceptual change, and authority and autonomy are…

Arts and crafts education opens up the creative ambitions of hearing-impaired children, cultivates their ability to express themselves, strengthens their organizational ability, helps them develop visual and tactile sensitivity, and increases their interest in learning. Self-respect and self-confidence are the result. (RM)

The relationship between instruction and a test is defined as a parallel content-valid relation. This article describes the PLANA procedure, which approaches the problem of content validity by applying constructional rules for producing or judging the content validity relationship between the instructional objective and the items. (BW)

Two prominent leaders in education, Charles Suhor and Jane Stallings, are interviewed concerning the present status and significant effects of the basic skills movement, the effect the National Commission on Excellence in Education report will have on basic skills education, and the number one priority for education in the future. (DCS)

Presents a summary of findings from the spring 1984 Gallup Poll of Teacher's Attitudes. (MD)

Justifications for the retention or expansion of offerings in music education include music's value in developing the individual's creative potential, awareness of cultural heritage, and aesthetic responsiveness. Music also serves as a therapeutic tool and as a focus for social and personal involvement. (PGD)

Analysis of 53 randomly chosen individualized education programs of secondary special education students revealed that less than half contained at least one vocationally oriented annual goal while more than half specified segregated placement. Limited participation in the staffing team by vocational educators was indicated. (CL)

Beardsley's explanation of how works of art have the capacity to give an aesthetic character to human experience provides a justification for art education in the schools. His major work, "Aesthetics," and subsequent writings that have a bearing on art education are discussed. (Author/RM)

As federal support has declined, corporations have played a more active role in education. But business, schools, policymakers, and students often disagree on the purpose and desired content of education. Cooperative programs have been developed to resolve this communication gap, but many concerned remain skeptical about the corporation-school…