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Personal and social development of the students is as important as the vocational and academic development. People would find ingenious ways and develop elaborate constructs to create and harden categories of status and privilege among the diverse groups that constitute humankind.

Teacher education in the United States has been a neglected enterprise. Even commissioned reports on school reform from the early 1890s into the late 1980s make little mention of it [...]

An essential mission of schools, Mr. Bellamy and Mr. Goodlad argue, is ensuring that each new generation understands the principles and institutions that support democratic life. Schools require vigilant stewardship [...]

The America 2000 program claims to be sweeping the nation, yet the program is known only vaguely to most educators and parents. The plan seems concerned with restructuring, rather than educating. Grassroots reform plans are more concerned with educating and are perhaps more worthy of consideration.

In Nov, 1990 the first five-year phase of a research program dealing with the education of educators was completed, and reports were published. Details of this project, interaction with those in the field, and future plans are discussed.

A dual agenda of renewing schools and teacher education means that faculty members from both sides must join together as equal partners. Mr. Goodlad describes how the National Network for [...]

The Agenda of the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) focuses on renewing the initial preparation programs for professional service in schools and simultaneously focuses on renewing schools. 'Simultaneously' is [...]

The inquiries referred to above led not only to the conclusion that the missions of schooling and teacher education must be closely linked but also to the hypothesis that in [...]

Educator John Dewey's attempts to establish a department of pedagogy to train teachers are evaluated. His emphasis on theory and practice, and the evolution of teacher education compared to medical, dentistry, and engineering education are analyzed., The history of schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs) suggests that they were born with a congenital malaise, into an inhospitable surround, or both. Conduct of their teacher education [...]

We, the people, appear to understand that the linchpin of each American's necessary apprenticeship in democracy is a qualified, caring, competent classroom teacher, Mr. Goodlad points out. The role of [...]

The well-educated individual easily acquires the skills of a specific workplace when these become necessary, Mr. Goodlad points out. To make the dozen or more years of schooling instrumental to [...]

Schools for all our children and all our seasons must await the arrival of narratives designed to provide - if not the favoring circumstances of birth - the favoring circumstances [...]

What's the difference between school reform and school renewal? Mr. Goodlad provides some answers to that question. THE FABRIC OF our society blends 'the soft and tender' and 'the hard [...]