The evolution of educational evaluation has been significantly influenced by the assumptions and procedures of educational research which, in turn, aspires to make educational practice scientific. The concept of education connoisseurship and education criticism is posited upon a different set of techniques. Connoisseurship is an appreciative art…

This annual publication of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English contains reviews of books in ten categories: teaching principles and practice; source books; composition, writing, rhetoric; language; poetry and prose; drama; criticism; mass media/general studies; multi-media kits; and the retarded reader. Also included are an…

In research conducted "over a period of 20 years" on aptitudes of high level personnel, the purpose was to analyze thinking abilities or processes into their unique components. The approach was through study of individual differences in performance on intellectual tasks varied systematically over broad ranges of psychological functioning.…

The Shared-Time Concept project was one of several conducted under a grant for a developmental vocational education research and teacher education program based on a clinical school concept. The objectives were (1) to determine the extent and nature of use of the shared-time concept for conducting vocational education programs, and (2) to develop…

The report presents condensed and edited versions of the major addresses presented in Lansing, Michigan, at the 1968 Central States Area Conference of the National Association of State Boards of Education. Dr. M. Chesler's topic is the relevance of the report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) for urban and…

Identified in this dissertation are the major influences on American preschool education: (1) the Froebel kindergarten, (2) the Montessori movement, (3) the Child Study movement, and (4) Project Head Start. Each movement is described according to history, aim, curriculum, materials, and methods. Criteria for each section of the contemporary…

This is the final report of the Reading Research Utilization Project (RUP) which was funded by the U.S. Office of Education from July, 1971 to June, 1973. The purpose of the RUP was to encourage the translation of research, particularly reading research, into practice in 16 target elementary schools in Washington, D.C. RUP was a school information…

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the nature of the school crisis and the ways in which radical thinkers and educators are dealing with it. Excerpts from the writings of Jonathan Kozol, John Holt, Kenneth Clark, and others are concerned with the realities of education in ghettos and suburbs. Paul Goodman, Marshall McLuhan, Sylvia…

Educational thought among political, religious, educational, and other social leaders during the formative decades of American national life was the focus of the author's research. The initial objective was the discovery of primary materials from the period to fill a gap in the history of American educational thought and practice. Extensive…

This book, written for students preparing to teach young children and for teachers of young children, deals with the application of new directions in sociology--dramaturgic sociology, symbolic interactionism, the inspection of everyday life, and the taken-for-granted daily activities--to the educative process. The young child's classroom is viewed…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the eighth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. A successful career education program is dependent upon professional development. Based on this premise, the monograph: (1)…

The language a child learns from and attends to is the speech of significant persons in his world, addressed to each other and to him. As the child gradually participates in this social interaction he learns communicative competence, i.e., the nonconscious, tacit knowledge that underlies speech behavior--knowledge of both the language and the…

Intended for reference purposes, this pamphlet describes the state system of education and the general policy implemented in Britain, including England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Among notable features of the system are the large number of students participating, the freedom of teachers from official direction, the decentralization of…

This paper records observations made on a tour of educational settings in the People's Republic of China. Discussed are the philosophy and aims of current Chinese education, curriculum practices in the preschool, primary and middle school and in teacher training institutions, The Little Red Soldiers programs and the Children's Palaces. Educational…

A newly developed course on education in contemporary China is described. Objectives, curriculum materials, teaching strategies, learning activities, and evaluation are briefly outlined. The three-credit, college-level course explores educational policy and practice in the People's Republic of China since 1949, with emphasis on the…