Reports the findings of a study designed to determine the perceptions held by high school graduates toward the informal learning environment that they had experienced in the fifth grade and to add to the research findings on open education. (FL)

Through this feature the Journal seeks to provide brief accounts of significant current innovation and research in Australia. Topics covered included administration, curriculum and objectives, teaching and learning, measurement and research methodology, student development and personnel services, social context of education, and history.…

The study's purpose is to identify the origin and theoretical aspects of open education. In addition, the study applies the theoretical basis to the practices used by the facilitator and the learner in the industrial arts laboratory. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of open education and its implications for industrial arts. It presents the…

This paper shows that educational philosophies are relevant to the currently popular subject of incentive offerings in educational contexts in two ways: through the philosophies of education held by individual educators and through the application of philosophical analysis to issues raised in the current literature. First the characteristics of an…

This document stimulates further study of open education. The publication is an edited version of selected presentations and panels of the American Association of Elementary-Kindergarten-Nursery Educators' National Research Conference on Open Education. Conference papers include the following: "Current Research in Open Informal Education;""Search…

This paper considers criteria which affect the likelihood of a psychological idea being adopted in educational practice. Likelihood of implementation is considered in terms of how the psychological idea is evaluated on these criteria; objective validity, potential relevance, comprehensibility, feasibility, and how effectively it is translated to…

Analysis of data from four courses shows that (1) female open learning students complete their courses more often than male counterparts, (2) open learning students who register at certain campuses complete their courses more often than students who register at others, and (3) students who complete and return assigned questionnaires are more…

Authors observed classrooms that served as models for open education and testified that what former observers have described is actually only part of the story. (Editor/RK)

Authors described how the arrangement of physical space in an open education setting could facilitate the accomplishment of the teacher's instructional goals. They stressed the process of planning in the physical realization of theoretical assumptions about learning and offered concrete examples to support their thesis. (Editor/RK)

The studies reported in this paper represent an effort to assess the attitudes of inservice and preservice teachers toward the open classroom. Three instruments are described which were used as pretest and posttest measures of attitudes of participants in a one-week Open Education Workshop. The instruments are: (1) a Likert-type attitude scale…

The Harvard University Center for Moral Education is conducting research on Kohlberg's assumption that development of moral thinking and of practical understanding of democratic institutions may be most effective in schools where students judge the moral atmosphere to be just. Students perceptions of three types of school are compared: (1)…

In order to evaluate the possibility that open education represents a revival of the progressive education movement, data were gathered on the attitude of experienced teachers toward open, progressive, and traditional educational practices. An attitude scale composed of 70 items was administered to a sample of 64 program assistants in the Tucson…

One hundred and twenty-two elementary school classrooms reportedly engaged in open education in the State of New York were visited and a list of criteria produced. Discusses nine criteria that appeared to be essential to the operation of open education. (Author/RK)

A major task of this study was to develop a conceptual framework for dealing with variations in openness of school programs (Author)

The authors suggest that it may be impossible for American teachers to adopt the British Infant School Model. (Editor)