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Ritter, U.P. – Western European Education, 1982
Discusses factors involved in the current West German crises of confidence in the value and relevance of higher education. The author suggests ways that staff development programs can contribute to the solution of these problems. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Higher Education, Relevance (Education), School Attitudes
von Recum, Hasso – Western European Education, 1990
Notes that 57 percent of West German teachers who responded to a survey believed it was difficult to transmit values to students and indicated the high degree of social differentiation in an industrial society promoted social fragmentation. Argues values education should not be the sole responsibility of the school but shared by the entire…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries
Pfeffer, Gottfried – Western European Education, 1981
Outlines the Max Planck Institute's exhaustive report on West German educational trends since World War II. An analysis of the effects of changing social values and demographic factors on educational policy, school organization, enrollment trends, curriculum design, and teaching methods is included. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Demography, Educational Change
Kauermann-Walter, Jacqueline; And Others – Western European Education, 1990
Describes results from 1985 interviews, asking college women how the type of school, coeducational or women's, influenced their choice of study or occupation in the hard sciences or engineering. Argues coeducational schools reinforce discrimination against and disadvantage females. Commends feminists' demands for greater sensitivity in detecting…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Clark, Burton R. – 1983
Basic elements of the higher education system are considered, along with variations across nations (the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, Italy, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and Thailand). Three basic elements of the organization of higher education system are identified:…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Comparative Education, Educational Change
George, Siegfried – 1983
Debate in West Germany among technicians, economists, politicians, and educators about technological advancement and the use of computers focuses on the need to be informed about the consequences of the technological revolution. Some concerns are that computer use will lead to social isolation, a growing bureaucracy and authoritarian power…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textCassara, Beverly B. – 1977
This paper is a three-part narrative report of a study in which structured interviews were conducted with 30 professional women in higher education in West Berlin to determine their career attitudes and aspirations. Background information includes an account of the author's preparation for conducting the study and her concern for semantics in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cultural Influences, Educational Attitudes, Educational Research
