Teacher education must create a theory of knowledge that can analyze social fractures, social violence, and how to make psychological significance from devastation. Referring to philosophers who were concerned with relationships between teacher education and social reparation, the paper advocates for a view of teacher education that can tolerate…

What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but our opening question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge if not urgency in the contemporary age. Indeed, it could be said that our opening question has never been generally acknowledged to be a significant motivating curricular and…

Reviews a book which asserts that "there is no higher moral challenge than to hold on to the promise and goodness of a child when others...do not recognize that promise." The book discusses questions about children's futures, stressing the importance of doing something to help disadvantaged children living on the edge. This article examines six…

This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures concerning school evaluation in primary and secondary education within the OECD countries. First, it provides a typology of the existing systems of school evaluation across the OECD. It encompasses the diverse criteria and instruments commonly used to carry out schools evaluation, as…

Six papers presented by philosophy of education specialists are gathered in this volume. The first, "Implications in Dewey for Feminist Theory in Education" by Wilma R. Miranda, discusses the social thought of John Dewey and argues that domestic virtues are significant as modes of political action. In "Jim Teaches Fang to Sit,"…

Contends that the public school is responsible for the habit training of its pupils to maximize their social effectiveness. Reprint from March 1908 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)

In this brief article author reflected on what type of education would produce not only just persons, but also individuals interested in working for a world community. (Author/RK)

Regarding the future of American education, although there have been problems in the past, the experience with Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 demonstrates that schools can, albeit slowly, devise new programs and new ways of working with disadvantaged children. (Author/JA)

The function of the Komsomol or Communist Youth League is to educate young people in the spirit of communist ideology and loyalty to the Soviet state. While issue number 5 of "Soviet Education" dealt with the functions of the Youth League in the community and places of work, this issue deals with the function of the Komsomol in the…

Article considered the use of volunteers in the classroom and some important steps in establishing paraprofessional programs. (Author/RK)

The author discusses the history of separation of education and political action and points out the need for developing education for social responsibility and educated social action. (HMD)

Student life was considered as it embraced student societies and the change in student attitudes towards those societies was noted. (RK)

A discussion of community uses of radio in Ireland. (HB)