Traces the history of the meaning and content of education as preparation for work in the United States. States that education as preparation for work is a major goal and discusses how to achieve it. Considers the contributions of both career and vocational education. (CH)

This paper traces the history of higher education in New York state and discusses the role of Siena College, a small liberal arts college, in the New York higher education picture. New York has 194 nonprofit private institutions of higher education, 91 public institutions, and 37 for-profit postsecondary education institutions. The State…

The Canadian Technical Education Act illustrates what can happen when the Federal Government attempts to impose a system of education on the provinces without adequate study and without the constitutional power to enforce its program. (Author/CB)

Outlines the historical background leading to the present educational setting in Britain. Discusses the role and responsibility of science education in the universities in relationship to the limited market for students trained in science and technology. Defends the position of industry against emotional and uniformed criticism. (JR)

Establishes the historical role of vocational education in promoting the welfare of the society and the individual. (Editor)

Presents an account of the history of U.S. vocational education. Emphasizes the tension between the two fundamental concepts underlying vocational education: the pedagogical and sociopolitical perspective and the economic interests. Reflects the conflict in the debate on the form of vocational education: work based or school based. (CAJ)

Before the Smith-Hughes Act, Congressional district agricultural schools in Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia provided an early example of federal support for vocational agriculture. Although agricultural instruction was included, these schools were in reality comprehensive high schools that set precedents for subsequent agricultural curricula. (SK)

The economic and social upheavals of the Civil War upon the South gave impetus to the development of vocational training for employment, such as Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute and the first school for manual skills training in Saint Louis. Southern senators and representatives pioneered federal legislation that led to the modern…

Examines the writings and speeches of several "progressive" southern academics who formed the basis of the crusade for industrial education for blacks. Shows how these intellectuals lent the authority of their institutions and the weight of their ideas to promote an educational system designed to maintain racial control and black…

Namibia is a vast and arid African country neighbouring South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola and the Atlantic Ocean, with a population of only two million. Namibia achieved its independence in 1990 after a protracted and brutal struggle, latterly against South African occupation, but rooted in the resistance to German colonisation that…

Between 1937 and 1952 three differing philosophies for the reform of NSW schooling found expression in three successive ministers for education. David Drummond, the Country Party minister during the Great Depression, wanted to extend the well-established democratic principle of equality of opportunity and the formation of character. He emphasised…

The author analyzes three basic periods in the development of the level of education of the population of Russia over the span of a hundred years. The first period runs from 1897, when a nationwide census was carried out for the first time, to 1917. The second period, the Soviet era, runs from 1917 to the late 1980s. The third period started with…

When William Moore, a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, established the first special school in China in 1874, the country began her long and circuitous journey toward establishing formal educational services for individuals with special needs. Special education in China developed slowly on the infertile soil of continual wars, political instability,…

The New Harmony Utopian Society established in southwestern Indiana in 1815 set many precedents from a social and educational perspective. None were more dramatic nor more significant than its contribution to the field of vocational education. The criteria established by its founders for the New Harmony educational system included a practical…