The merging of the Bologna and the Copenhagen processes into a single European education area appears appropriate, especially as general, vocational, adult and academic education are to be integrated in a future European Qualification Framework (EQF). This is the backdrop to the following description of the Bologna process, which was originally…

This literature review is intended to help inform the development and implementation of innovative, educationally sound high school redesigns in Alberta. It is provided as a support resource for school administrators involved in Alberta Education's High School Flexibility Enhancement Project. Support is provided in the following ways: (1) a brief…

The growing sensitivity of various systems and parts of industry, society, and even everyday individual life leads to the increased volume of changes and needs for adaptation and learning. This creates a new situation where learning from being purely academic knowledge transfer procedure is becoming a ubiquitous always-on essential part of all…

This study was conducted during the academic year 2002-2003 in a municipality in Eastern Finland. It focuses on pre-school education assessing its quality factors from the parents', teachers' and children's points of view. Theoretically, the study focuses on analyses of the purposes of the national core curriculum and pedagogical issues that are…

The author introduces Paulo Freire, the man, then discusses the historical background of his work, his method and results, and briefly describes the basic philosophical ideas behind his educational approach. (Author/AG)

The aim of this paper is to articulate a new "post-liberal" paradigm for religious education in Britain. As criticisms of British religious education have mounted over the last few decades, it is becoming increasingly obvious that familiar inherited ways of conceptualising the nature and practice of religious education in schools are…

This paper is divided into two parts: (1) the drug abuse education activities being carried out by the various agencies that take responsibility in this area, and (2) an analysis of various kinds of efforts made in drug abuse education today and the resulting product. The definition of drug abuse education used by the author contains the following…

The Goal-Oriented Approach to Learning (GOAL), a procedure to actively involve handicapped adolescents in the mainstreaming process, was evaluated with 11 learning disabled high school students. The procedure consisted of four steps: goal setting, goal attainment scaling, selection of classroom instructional strategies, and evaluation of goal…

The article treats two central doctrines of behaviorism, namely, peripheralism and associationism, as doctrines which place semantic and syntactical constraints on acceptable language for the discussion of human beings, and assesses the consequences of these doctrines for the description of educational goals and methods. (Author)

The paper focuses on the process and product of planning instruction for mentally retarded students. (Author/CL)

Primary goals are to advance children's ability to use language functionally and master conceptual-cognitive processes, and to develop positive self-concepts. (Developed from a paper for a meeting of Head Start Regional Training Officers.) (JF)

In his essay, "Aims in Music Education: A Conceptual Study," Constantijn Koopman criticizes the lack of attention to the aims of music education and the confusion of aims and methods in some music education writing. Leaving aside questions relating to the philosophical merits or otherwise of blurring boundaries between aims and methods or the…

In looking forward to a system of permanent education, there is a need for a definition of objectives which would determine the structures, content, and methods of education. The formal educational system would have four functions: occupational training; providing basic education; teaching how to take advantage of out-of-school possibilities; and…

Education for liberation of Africans and African-Americans is a continuous process of uncovering that environment which denies natural growth and development, and of discovering new sets of knowledge and reinterpreting old sets to accelerate renaming the world. (Author)