Sees an overriding tendency in teaching and in academic writing to emphasize analysis over celebration, and thus to rush to judgment. Sees celebration as foundational to English education, the embodiment of the lived experience of teaching. Suggests that what moves teachers is not sermons disguised as analysis, but the sharing and testing of…

In view of the sixteen-year tenure (1933-1949) at Black Mountain College of Josef Albers, a former Bauhaus Master, and his wife, Anni, a Bauhaus graduate and teacher, exploration of the influence of the Bauhaus on this small, progressive, art-centered college in the mountains of North Carolina is warrented. (Author)

This selection of Freire's writings is a circular, sent by the author to coordinators of study groups in Chile. The circular stresses the two-fold nature of the programs: to educate the peasants and to help them gain a critical understanding of their environment through discussion. (Author/RR)

Author presents an illustration of a general method of factor matrix analysis, a versatile tool for the comparative study of systems of educational thought, analogous to the comparative methods, using categorical constructs, that are now widely recognized as fundamental in the behavioral sciences. (Author/CB)

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…

Whether we view sustainable development as our greatest challenge or a subversive litany, every phase of education is now being urged to declare its support for education for sustainable development (ESD). In this paper, we explore the ideas behind ESD and, building on work by Foster and by Scott and Gough, we argue that it is necessary now to…

Paulo Freire's major work is Pedagogy of the Oppressed'' published in England in 1970. (DS)

This article, concerning the importance of and need for educational theory, elucidates the etymology of the word "theory," describes the importance of ethnomethodology to educational principles, and views the concerns of epistemology to curriculum theory. The question "What is the good of theory?" is debated in relation to the…

Condensed from "School and Society, Volume 96 (December 7-12, 1968), 456-57.

Reviews highlights of papers presented at first meeting of the International Standing Working Group for the History of Early Childhood Education held in August, 1984. The presentations covered the following three categories: (1) institutional early childhood education, (2) family education, and (3) sources and methods. (DST)

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)

Music, language and mathematics form the basis of existence. Keeping this in mind, teaching methods and philosophy can benefit by using this trio as guidelines for instruction. (Author/MF)

Described is the concept of Benjamin Bloom's Mastery Learning as a teaching method. The author concludes that, by its very definition, Mastery Learning cannot be superimposed on traditional education. (KC)

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)