Simulation techniques can be used in teaching music. These techniques involve principles of role-playing in representations of reality and can thus be used at all levels of education. (MF)

The author suggests that it is more useful to talk of educational situations, with the emphasis on teaching, rather than the unqualified term of learning situations. Educational situations require fairly specific learner/teacher goals, standards of attainment, and methods of learning actively involving the learner. (Author/EA)

This article discusses the ways in which the mass media of communication, particularly radio and television, now function or could function as complements or as alternatives to formal schooling. (HMD)

IMPROVING THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IS THE SUBJECT OF THESE TWO SEPARATE BUT RELATED DOCUMENTS. THIS CONFERENCE REPORT OF A 1966 STATE-WIDE CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CONTAINS BRIEF EXCERPTS OF SEVERAL ADDRESSES AND SUMMARIES OF THE CONFERENCE DISCUSSIONS ON SUCH TOPICS AS THE…

Permanent education, with its functional requirements and its own development, is beginning to be an agent of radical change in the whole traditional educational system. In the future, the schooling of youth will be more and more devoted to acquisition of methods of thought, adaptive attitudes, critical reactions and disciplines which teach how to…

This monograph discusses the background and current state of early childhood education, and the goals and methods of Project Head Start are emphasized. The development of Follow Through and the present status of Title I programs, kindergartens, day care centers, and nursery schools are briefly considered. The booklet discusses 10 problems facing…

Several issues raised in the article by Drash et al. are discussed: the danger that total habilitation could become a dominant goal; the lack of definition of "new technology"; the limited utility of the new term, "total habilitation"; and the lack of criteria for total habilitation. (KM)

Describes the goals of the public educational system as lying between life adjustment education and basic education; the author prefers the latter. (RN)

Discusses the conflicts involved in traditionally oriented and futuristic teaching. (PG)

Michael John Demiashkevich believed that it was the responsibility of the school to inculcate in each generation the unchanging elements of civilization and to make accessible to everyone the kind of culture and training that is best suited to his ability and character. (CK)

Part I of a 2-part article begins a search for a "Grand Unified Theory of Environmental Education" through consultation with 11 distinguished environmental educators. Proposed are 10 top descriptors of environmental education curriculum that will be used to build a singular model of environmental education. (LZ)

The idea that post-school education has been influenced by a "therapeutic turn" in recent years has been subjected to critical scrutiny by a number of commentators. Learning initiatives which are dominated by objectives linked to personal and social skills, emotional intelligence and boosting self-esteem and confidence have been labelled as…

MBO (Management by Objectives) is a concept designed for corporate business; it is therefore inappropriate in an educational setting. It is especially dangerous for education because it gives an objective facade to an intrinsically subjective process. (DC)

THE USE OF CASES DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE WAS EVALUATED AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE USING 108 SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASSES IN BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, AND PHYSICS LOCATED IN WIDELY DISTRIBUTED GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS. THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE CASES INSTRUCTION METHOD (HOSC) IN CHANGING…