A program to develop career aspirations in middle school students has been implemented in the Philadelphia Public Schools and is entitled "Give Our Children Room to Grow." It utilizes a series of teacher guided projects; dialogues with resource persons from industry, business, and upper schools; field trips; pupil created projects; and…

Affective education attempts to educate the emotions. Many available works describing affective techniques offer little guidance to teachers who wish to design their own learning experiences or to administrators and researchers who want to understand and analyze what's going on in affective education. This taxonomy not only describes some…

A review of the meanings of work, career, occupation, and job begin this monograph, which takes up other concepts such as leisure, play, and avocation. Because the theoretical basis of career education is considered to be career development theory, the essay discusses life stages, developmental tasks, and career patterns. The implications of the…

Prepared by the Arizona Indian Education Association, this publication constitutes Arizona's 1976-77 Johnson-O'Malley State Educational Plan as stipulated by Public Law 93-638 (Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act) and Arizona Revised Statutes 15-1161. Indicating the corresponding regulation number in the margin, this publication…

Examines three arguments supporting music education in the schools: (1) music education is vital to individual development; (2) musical experience involves a special kind of knowledge; and (3) the richness of musical experience justifies itself. Posits the the third argument as the strongest for building a supportive consensus. (MJP)

Part of a series designed to help commuity groups engage in discussion on the possibility of individual and community transformation, this discussion paper explores how education (both in schools and in community development programs) can help promote the wholeness of human beings. The need for the content and process of the curriculum to speak to…

While recognizing the popularity of the Bloom and Krathwohl taxonomies, this paper focuses on their shortcomings and proposes new affective taxonomies. The Bloom/Krathwohl approach to curriculum design is built around intellectual ends and ignores self-development and social intelligence. This has become particularly pronounced with the advent of…

To view knowledge of a foreign language only as a classroom tool is limiting for any young person, and especially so for the black student. "What good will study of a foreign language do me?" is a legitimate question for any student to ask. For one thing, foreign language study liberates the mind. Beginning with the first contact with a foreign…

Although initially it was wise for local, State, and national debate and action to forge a definition of career education, the time has come to identify the common threads in career education implementation in ways that are clear to the general public. The need to clarify and emphasize relationships between education and work for all persons and…

The publication was prepared to assist Montana school personnel in initiating, developing, and implementing effective K-12 guidance and life career development programs. It contains a rationale, selected theories of career development and occupational choice, domains, concepts, goals, objectives, and implementation procedures for establishing a…

Conflicting attitudes toward current American social problems may emphasize either the instabilities of social crisis and cultural confusion or the formulating of a more meaningful future through intelligent action. Particularly in the field of education both the despairing critics and the hopeful reformers are in obvious conflict today. Thus,…

The goals of education are literacy, intellectual development, aesthetic perception and creativity, cultural and cross-cultural understanding, and self-realization. How the arts can foster each of these goals is discussed. (RM)

The following chapters are included in this book: "Learning as a Religious Phenomenon?" (Jarvis); "Truth, Belief, and Knowledge" (Clark); "The Authority of the Word" (Ferro); "The Priesthood of the Teacher--Language and the Teaching of the Word" (McCaffry); "Teaching--Catechism, Preaching, and Indoctrination" (Willis); "Meaning, Being, and…

IN 1965, THE TASK FORCE ON TEACHING ENGLISH TO THE DISADVANTAGED TRIED TO IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS IN THE FIELD OF ADULT BASIC BY VISITING 35 PROGRAMS IN 15 STATES AND COLLECTING SOME 1,300 PIECES OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL. AMONG THE PROBLEMS OBSERVED WERE THE LACK OF WRITTEN OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES DESIGNED AROUND THE STUDENTS' GOALS AND NEEDS, BROAD…

The SPAN (An Accelerated Project for a Systems Program Approaching Non-Unemployment of Vocational Students, or "Start Planning Ahead Now") career education curriculum guide provides activities that will give junior high students exposure to real work situations. Briefly discussed are the program's organization, general objectives, and…