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Fry, Ruth – 1985
This book examines the evolution in the education of New Zealand women from 1900 through 1975. Early in the century, differences in boys' and girls' schooling were more visible on the secondary than the elementary level. At the same time, a government report concluded that many parents felt girls needed little more than half the education of boys.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Foreign Countries
Sergiovanni, Thomas J. – 1992
This book shows how creating a new leadership practice--one with a moral dimension based on purpose, values, and beliefs--can transform a school from an organization to a community. Chapter 1 critiques traditional views of leadership and presents an alternative view of leadership that expands its values. Chapter 2 examines what motivates and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
White, Merry I., Ed.; Pollak, Susan, Ed. – 1986
This book makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. It will help anyone concerned with these issues to overcome the North American and European bias which is all too common in dealing with the Third World and Japan. The focus is on three main questions: (1) How does the culture…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Educational Anthropology, Foreign Countries
Brown, Leslie M., Ed. – 1970
This anthology provides an organized way to examine the many types of aims which have been advanced as the proper ends for educating. Essays of educational philosophers from Plato to the present day are presented. The contents are organized into four divisions. Sections one and two are concerned with the public aims of education. The third section…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Critical Thinking, Educational Objectives
Lazerson, Marvin, Ed.; Grubb, W. Norton, Ed. – 1974
The editors have chosen 21 selections which illustrate the development of industrial and trade education, believing this aspect of vocationalism in education to be the primary concern of the vocational education movement during its most important phase, the years from 1900 to 1917. While vocationalism has changed since 1917, most of what has…
Descriptors: American History, Anthologies, Books, Democratic Values
Grossberg, Lawrence – Paradigm Publishers, 2005
"Caught in the Crossfire" reveals how the United States has been gradually changing from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is hostile to and afraid of its own children. Today kids are often seen as a threat to our social and moral values. In schools, some behavior is criminalized, and growing numbers of kids find…
Descriptors: Ideology, Moral Values, Social Values, Children
Porter, James – 1999
This book analyzes attempts by governments and international development agencies to neutralize the school as an independent and democratizing institution. The volume contains four chapters and a conclusion. Chapter 1, "The Diminished School," highlights the trend away from the liberal and professionally led systems characteristic of the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Bergmann, Frithjof; Sinder, Leon – 1972
These National Humanities Faculty working papers are presentations from the Question of Authority Workshop. Frithjof Bergmann's "The Logic of Freedom" distinguishes two approaches to the concept of freedom--that freedom is the ultimate good and that freedom is a burden. A theory of freedom is constructed in the second part of Bergmann's…
Descriptors: American Culture, Biological Influences, Cultural Influences, Existentialism
Poole, Michael – 1995
This book asserts that beliefs and values are integral to the scientific enterprise and the theory and practice of education and hence science education, and that it is desirable to explore such matters in the classroom. It aims at helping science teachers demonstrate how spiritual, moral, social, and cultural factors affect science. Chapter 1,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Montgomery, John D., Ed. – 1997
Social capital creates or reinforces the mutual trust that binds people together. Some of the traditional human values in Asia and the cultural changes Asians face in order to survive in an era of globalization are presented in this collection of essays. The chapters emphasize the strong influence of values on education, the role of education in…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles
Nash, Robert J. – 1997
The book examines approaches to moral education, first attempting to understand each one sympathetically, then highlighting strengths and weaknesses, and finally formulating the problems and issues uncovered in the analysis. The work concludes with the author's own version of a postmodern "patchwork" pedagogy of moral conversation. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Liberalism, Modernism, Moral Development
Whitlock, Eileen S.; Westerlund, Stuart R. – 1975
This booklet traces the historical development of human education as it has been instilled into the young people of America from colonial times to the present and provides a future prognosis of humaneness in the schools. Humane education promotes humane behavior and is an important part of the humane movement in the United States, although until…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Childhood Attitudes, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
McGrath, Earl J. – 1975
Discussion of the future of the liberal arts college is more fruitful if it begins not with its own practical internal matters but rather with a consideration of the problems in the supporting society in the solution of which the colleges could, if they chose to do so, render unique assistance. External activities designed to improve the lot of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Futures (of Society)
Peacock, James; Ryan, Carol Ball – 1974
A conversation about cultural anthropology between a college anthropology professor and an English and humanities high school teacher is related. As part of the National Humanities Faculty Why Series, the book is intended to help students, teachers, and citizens maintain and improve their intellectual vigor and human awareness and to help them…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach
Carr, John C. – 1972
Secondary school literature anthologies, like social studies texts, present a narrow, prejudiced view of the black experience in the United States, when and if it is presented at all. Until recently, the literature included in these anthologies failed to achieve the objective stated almost 30 years ago by the National Council of Teachers of…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature
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