Offers a pledge for teachers who would affirm their opposition to the industrialization of the schools and affirm the teacher's role as advocate on behalf of students. (Author/RH)

The author argues that universities, and specifically their vocational education departments, need to become far more involved in the nation's Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) efforts than they are presently. He contends that to ignore the CETA system would seriously violate the responsibilities attendant to the university's three…

Educators bear the responsibility to continually nurture the natural and biological optimism inherent in their students. (LH)

Examines the history of peace education in Sweden, beginning with the 1870s, when the continental peace movement started taking hold in Sweden, and moving through the 20th century as various resolutions and initiatives supporting peace education began. A characteristic of the movement was deep confidence in education as an effective instrument for…

Teacher education must create a theory of knowledge that can analyze social fractures, social violence, and how to make psychological significance from devastation. Referring to philosophers who were concerned with relationships between teacher education and social reparation, the paper advocates for a view of teacher education that can tolerate…

Discusses aspects of a professional studio acting program at the university level. (PD)

Discusses future needs of education based on the theories of Alvin Toffler's book, "The Third Wave." Cooperative education programs provide a system for educating a workforce that is well-grounded in practical experience and that is what Third Wave employers increasingly need. (JOW)

Adult educators are faced with a dilemma which lies between the traditional design and use of the curriculum with its aims and objectives as a system of control and the natural freedom of the more highly motivated and articulate adult student/consumer. (SK)

Social studies teachers must realize that they are the key guardians of our democratic system. The level of sophistication of the social studies profession must be raised. To accomplish this, we must choose people who value scholarship and who are strong models of sociopolitical participation to become social studies teachers. (RM)

The impact of the accountability movement is examined in terms of the defensiveness which such programs have caused among educators and its emphasis on what schools cannot do rather than what they can do. (JMF)

Foreign language study has a humanistic value that should not be ignored. Foreign language study is as essential to a liberal arts education as is the study of mathematics to an education in technological and scientific fields. (HOD)

The basic skills should be taught at all levels in our schools. They should be wrapped in practicality so that the student appreciates the basic skills and realizes that they have an application in his or her future life. (JOW)

Challenges Higgs'"ambivalent" position about the role of the university (presented in a previous article), contending that the university can still retain its character as "a community of reason" (Higgs' main argument) without abandoning its social role vis-a-vis nation building. (EV)

Technology education programs must not be so restricted as to be primarily concerned with sets of facts. They must realize the unique responsibility of fostering philosophic critics and designers of technology. They should also strive to help students with their future needs. (Author/JOW)

Asserts that big-time sports distort educational values, and discusses faculty's role in restoring a better balance. (EV)