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2. Special Correspondence.
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EDUCATION ,BRITISH prime ministers ,LEGISLATIVE bills ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Great Britain's Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone's administration has received a severe blow, and, though it has now come back again in its old shape, its prestige is seriously diminished. The Irish University bill now deceased may be dismissed with a very brief epitaph. Nobody was in favor of it with the exception of the Ministry and their thick-and-thin admirers, and nobody will weep over its remains. The only real question was whether the party ties of the majority were strong enough to stand the strain of so unpopular a measure, and that question has been decided in the negative. Gladstone's normal majority is between 80 and 90; some 35 Irish Roman Catholics deserted on this occasion to the enemy; and the supplement necessary to convert the majority into a minority was derived from the ranks of the discontented Radicals.
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- 1873
3. THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY.
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Newman, John Henry
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EDUCATION ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,POPULAR education ,SCIENCE - Abstract
An essay is presented which expounds the aim of education in Great Britain. It entails the essential and basic elements of the author's system of belief on English university. It also elucidates the effects of popular education. Moreover, it explores the author's principle concerning education with regard to the world of science.
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- 1886
4. Editorials.
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,BRITISH politics & government ,VOTING ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article presents various socio-political developments from the world. English politics has now entered on what is, perhaps, the most curious phase in its history. It appears to be all but certain that the liberals who abstained from voting; or broke away from the followers of William Ewart Gladstone last year are now prepared to return to their allegiance if the opportunity is afforded them. One of the most curious social phenomena of the year is the success which has attended the attempts to teach whist in classes, both in this city and in Boston, last winter, and during the past summer at some of the watering-places.
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- 1887
5. Choosing College Professors.
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UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,COLLEGE teachers ,EDUCATION ,ADVERTISING endorsements - Abstract
Scholar Sidney Lee has returned to England convinced that the American way of choosing college professors is better than the English, and has manfully made his avowal of conversion in the newspaper "London Times." Towards that variety of the merit system, which prevails at the English universities, his attitude is one of courteous ridicule. No man of high professional standing likes to answer an advertisement and put himself in public competition with a score of nobodies, and no modest person wishes to draw up the list of his own qualifications; while canvassing for the endorsement of distinguished acquaintances is the most distasteful task that can be set a scholar.
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- 1903
6. CHILDREN UNDER THE POOR LAW. A REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.
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ELEMENTARY schools ,STATE governments ,SCHOOL children ,EDUCATION ,HOME schooling - Abstract
This article gives an instructive account of the stewardship of the state government as foster-parent in the Great Britain. A brief retrospect describes the evolution of the present system in regard to maintenance and education. Until about 45 years ago, these child-waifs were practically confined to the Workhouses, wherein they got such schooling as was deemed necessary; since then, the policy pursued has been to withdraw them in special institutions or homes to which schools are attached; the public elementary schools provide for about half the total at the educational age.
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- 1908
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7. Education in England and Here.
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EDUCATION ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,SCHOOLS ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,EDUCATIONAL quality ,DEMOCRACY ,OCCUPATIONAL training - Abstract
Education in Great Britain has just been undergoing a careful scrutiny. The Educational Section of the British Association has been listening to papers and addresses on a wide range of topics, which have then become the subject of general discussion. Some of these topics are the same as those Americans are accustomed to; others are strikingly unfamiliar. On both sides of the Atlantic there is complaint of the want of coordination between secondary school and college. But in the United States it takes the form of an outcry against the tyranny of the college. In Great Britain there is protest against the "un-natural ascendancy" enjoyed by secondary education. In the very process of leading democracy to higher levels, education makes efforts to adjust itself to the ideals of the institution for which it ostensibly sets the ideals. In the United States this is shown of late by the emphasis put upon vocational training. Democracy is willing to be educated, but it is inclined to prescribe its own courses.
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- 1911
8. Books and Things.
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P.L.
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PAMPHLETS ,EDUCATION ,LATIN literature ,LATIN language education ,STUDY & teaching of Greek literature ,GOVERNMENT publications - Abstract
Discusses the pamphlet "A Modern School" by Abraham Flexner, published by the Great Britain General Education Board. Child's preference for education would not be the final consideration; Flexner points out the British system's failure to teach Latin or Greek literatures; Neither Latin nor Greek would be continued in the curriculum of Flexner's modern school; Study in Latin is a preparation for life; Argument that Latin language aids in securing a vigorous or graceful use of the mother tongue; Boys at Perse School learn to read Latin with ease.
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- 1916
9. Hard Times and Standards.
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Bell, Clive
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ETHICS ,CONDUCT of life ,WORLD War I ,RESTAURANTS ,DEPRESSIONS (Economics) ,BOOKS & reading ,SUPERSTITION ,ELITE (Social sciences) ,EDUCATION ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) - Abstract
Focuses on the morals and standards of people in Great Britain after the World War I. Discussion on the profiteering attitude in Great Britain during and after the world war I; Discussion on the after-war economy in Great Britain as reflected in its restaurants and roads; Discussing on effects of trade depression; Reading habits of people in Great Britain; View that there has not been any decrease in superstition level among people; View that the educated classes are gaining prestige; Discussion on the change in the attitude of young elites; Deliberation on the return of standard and morals to the people after the war.
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- 1922
10. Some Defects.
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UNITED States education system ,BRITISH education system ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,LITERACY - Abstract
The article focuses on the interpretation of the Carnegie report by "The London Times" which exposed the educational shortcomings of the U.S. In the report, it is stated that American education is never fully understood but there is a vague belief in its efficiency brought about by reports of English educationalists themselves. According to the newspaper, the root of illiteracy is immigration, adding that it can be solved by Americans if they have the will and wealth. A comparison of the issue of education in the U.S. and Great Britain is presented.
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- 1923
11. Correspondence.
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Schriftgiesser, Karl, Panunzio, Constantine, Blackwell, Alice Stone, Hogue, Richard W., Bell, Hallen M., and Klein, Nicholas
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IMPERIALISM ,IMMIGRATION law ,JAPANESE people ,EDUCATION ,FILIPINO students ,FINANCE - Abstract
Presents several letters to the editor related to social and political issues of the world. British rule making India unfit for self-rule; Laws related to Japanese immigrants in the U.S.; Establishment of an educational fund to assist Philippine students in the U.S.
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- 1930
12. England Teaches Its Soldiers.
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Niebuhr, Reinhold
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EDUCATION ,EDUCATIONAL programs ,LITERACY programs ,NON-military education of military personnel ,BRITISH military - Abstract
A part of the British educational scheme dates from 1920. The present educational program is carried on inside the army under the supervision of a Directorate of Education in the War Office, and the Education Corps has its special officers in every district, area, and divisional headquarters. The actual classes and forums are usually conducted by warrant officers in regimental and battalion units. A special premium is placed upon discussion, and the officers are asked to report the length of each discussion and the number of participants.
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- 1943
13. The New Labor Cabinet.
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LABOR ,CABINET system ,EDUCATION ,LABOR unions ,EMPLOYMENT ,AGE ,POLITICAL parties - Abstract
Presents information on the formation of the new labor cabinet in Great Britain. Information on appointments of members in the new labor cabinet; Reference to the common-school education of some of the members of the new cabinet; Revealment that the members of the Labor Cabinet are people who have been in executive posts for many years; Citation that the average age of the party is sixty; Notation that of the Parliamentary Labor Party only about 125 members are trade unionists; Acknowledgement that the Labor Party is in deadly earnest in its effort to create full employment in Great Britain.
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- 1945
14. AN AMERICAN EXCHANGE TEACHER VIEWS THE ENGLISH SCHOOL SYSTEM.
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Mitchell, Maxine
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EDUCATION ,PUBLIC schools ,TEACHERS ,PHONICS ,GRAMMAR ,STUDENT activities ,CURRICULUM frameworks - Abstract
The article focuses on the British education system with its comparison to the U.S. education system. In Great Britain, public schools are divided into three levels, namely, infant school, junior school, and secondary schools. All children in the age group five to seven go to the infant schools while children from seven to eleven go to the junior schools. Children from eleven to fourteen, sixteen, or eighteen go to secondary schools. The country has free and compulsory education for children from the age of five to fourteen. The schools teach reading by the phonetic method. The primary grades emphasizes music, art and physical training more than the American education system. Every infant school has a social welfare worker to assist teachers in every way possible. The subjects taught in the British junior schools are the one's taught in the American upper elementary grades. British secondary schools are of three types, namely, secondary grammar, secondary technical and secondary modern.
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- 1950
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15. The Social Structure of England PART II. THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
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Cole, G. D. H.
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MIDDLE class ,SOCIAL structure ,UPPER class ,NOBILITY (Social class) ,GENTRY ,EMPLOYMENT ,EDUCATION ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article, part two of an article series on the social structure of England, discusses the history of the middle classes in England. It comments on the so-called "new rich" and their relations with the landed gentry and nobility, examining education at Grammar Schools and Public Schools. The author considers the status of several professions, including dissenting ministers, teachers, intellectuals, shopkeepers, and farmers. Other topics include salary-earners and profit-makers in the lower middle class, women's clerical work, and the relative shrinkage of the upper class.
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- 1951
16. Report Card.
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CABINET officers ,SPEECHES, addresses, etc. - Abstract
This section offers world news briefs, including a newspaper report which reveals that just five out of 37 ministers in the outgoing British Labor cabinet had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester and just 15% to Cambridge or Oxford, a ban on broadcasting the address of a speaker invited by the Student Republican Club of the University of Minnesota and a device invented by Elwood Kretsinger that will enable teachers to tell whether their students are interested in their work or not.
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- 1951
17. BLUE BOOKS 1852.
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Hyland, Stanley
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PUBLIC records ,GOVERNMENTAL investigations ,EDUCATION ,EYE diseases ,ALMSHOUSES ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article presents excerpts from two British governmental documents from 1852, the first called House of Commons (H.C.) Paper 499, which presented evidence from an inquiry into education in Salford and Manchester, England, and H.C. Paper 265, which documented epidemic eye disease in Ireland's Kanturk Union workhouses.
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- 1952
18. Queen Victoria in Ireland, 1853.
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Hone, Joseph
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ROYAL visitors ,IRELAND description & travel ,HISTORY of exhibitions ,GREAT Britain-Ireland relations ,EDUCATION ,HISTORY ,NINETEENTH century ,HISTORY of education - Abstract
The article discusses the visit of Queen Victoria of Great Britain to Ireland in 1853, during which she visited the Irish cities of Cork, Dublin, and Belfast. It comments that the occasion of her visit was the Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin that year, and examines her relations with the Exhibition's chief promoter, William Dargan. Other topics explored by the author include relations between Great Britain and Ireland, relations between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, and the Irish education system.
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- 1953
19. The New Tory.
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POLITICAL parties ,PUBLIC welfare ,EDUCATIONAL law & legislation ,CHURCH & state ,BRITISH politics & government - Abstract
The article focuses on Richard Austen Butler, Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the direction he set for the Conservative Party. Butler's Toryism is described as one that accepts the welfare state and its social services. He was made Sir Samuel Hoare's parliamentary private secretary in 1931, Foreign Office undersecretary in 1938, and he planned a postwar revolution in the educational system. In modernizing the Conservative Party, he was guided by the principles of the divine origin of the human personality and faith in Christian ethics.
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- 1954
20. Music and Learning.
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Neilson, Francis
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LEARNING ,MUSIC ,EDUCATION ,FOLKLORE ,JUVENILE delinquency - Abstract
This article discusses the importance of liberal studies in the elementary studies in England and the U.S. The adult-school experiment is a sad commentary on the value of the schooling given to students since the idea went forth that a lad was sent to school to learn to make a living. This is the datum line chosen by some of the critics of the system for marking the period when the decline in learning took place. It is not necessary to examine the statistics of the Departments of War, Navy, and Air Force, issued during the Second World War and the Korean expedition, to read the sad tale of the amazing decline in elementary knowledge. Side by side might be placed the figures for the increase in crime. The reports on juvenile delinquency are extremely shocking. Both the U.S. and Great Britain seem to be passing through the same phase of deterioration, yet no one of influence offers a solution of the problems with which schoolteachers are left to deal. A generation ago the heads of the principal colleges of Oxford and Cambridge lamented the neglect of the classics. Learning had fallen into decay that the great treasures of cathedrals and schools, among them music and books, had been destroyed and that rapine had left a gloom over the land.
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- 1958
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21. PLANNING THE EDUCATION BILL OF 1902.
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Eaglesham, Eric
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EDUCATIONAL law & legislation ,EDUCATION ,HIGH schools - Abstract
The article provides on the planning of the Education Bill of 1902 in Great Britain. The three people who were mainly responsible for planning the Bill, during the eight months before it was introduced to Parliament in March, 1902, were Sir John Gorst, A.J. Balfour and Sir Robert Morant. One of Gorst's main objects had been to help the voluntary schools and he did bring them some assistance by the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897. In December 1900, however, the way for a real revolution in education seemed to be open. The so-called Cockerton Judgment of that month showed that there was no legal foundation for some of the higher education given by the great school boards. Morant might not check the evidence for his prejudices; but he did not make the mistake of making positive proposals without carefully ascertaining the facts which supported them. By March 1901, one finds him drawing Gorst's attention to the implications of the figures for secondary education. The immediate problem was still whether the Bill was to be for secondary education only, or for both secondary and elementary. Moreover, argued Morant, the varying nature of the different types of institutions for secondary education suggested a complex pattern of organization.
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- 1960
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22. TEACHING RACE QUESTIONS IN BRITISH SCHOOLS.
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Banton, Michael
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RACE relations ,EDUCATION ,TEACHING ,DISCRIMINATION in education ,SCHOOLS ,EDUCATIONAL sociology - Abstract
The article discusses issues related to teaching race questions in British schools. In February 1961 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization invited the author to promote and supervise a pilot inquiry to assess the usefulness of Cyril Bibby's book "Race, Prejudice and Education" as means of eliminating race prejudice in the schools of Great Britain. The survey was conducted in the spring and a report submitted in the autumn. The present article is a synopsis of that report. The account of the survey, the question asked and the responses has been drastically condensed to allow for discussion of the conclusions at greater length. "Race, Prejudice and Education" can be strongly recommended as a teaching aid for use in British schools, in association with other measures, in a programme of the type envisaged. The arguments for and against the teaching of race questions in schools have not received sufficient attention in British educational circles. Many teachers maintained that it was inadvisable to teach such topics, on two grounds. First, they considered that much of the material dealt with matters of opinion rather than matters of fact. Secondly, they thought that race as a biological phenomenon was only incidental to inter-group relations and that to emphasize the racial factor was often to create a problem where none existed before.
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- 1962
23. THE MORRILL ACT AND EDUCATION.
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Lee, Gordon C.
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EDUCATIONAL law & legislation ,EDUCATIONAL technology ,WAR & education ,CIVIL war ,INTERNATIONAL law ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article focuses on the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 of Great Britain. The Act marked the convergence of a set of trends or cultural patterns that had been evolving for some time, for at least a century. The schools and colleges in the early colonies were modeled, naturally enough, after the European, especially the English, patterns familiar to the settlers. As the concept of general public responsibility for education gained acceptance, so the school and the college lost in sectarian flavour and in the predominance of literary studies. For with active public involvement in the provision of education came ever-increasing insistence that education pay off, that it demonstrate its practical worth, its utility. It is not so clear that pressures for engineering or technological education were vital in precipitating the Morrill Act of 1862. As with agriculture, there was almost no systematic education in engineering at the college level before the Civil War. But it should be apparent that, throughout this history and despite certain lively antipathies, several concrete antecedents to the Morrill Act had been developed, certain clear precedents had been established.
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- 1963
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24. Social Services for the Mentally Retarded in Great Britain.
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Adams, Margaret
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SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL problems ,SOCIALIZATION ,EDUCATION ,PUBLIC welfare - Abstract
Any modern social welfare service, if it is to be understood properly, has to be seen in historical perspective. Before the facilities, social practices, and philosophy that exist for the mentally retarded in Great Britain today are discussed, a description will be given of how they originated, under what circumstances they evolved, and what forces dictated the direction of their growth. Concern for this group of the handicapped gradually built up in the 19th century. Simultaneous with this movement in the education held was a growing preoccupation with the social plight of older defective people at large in the community, and also with the undifferentiated care that many of the more severely handicapped experienced in public institutions for the destitute—usually workhouses or lunatic asylums. This act attempted to co-ordinate the needs of the mentally defective population that were not covered by the education provisions already cited and to provide for a comprehensive and varied service to meet them.
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- 1964
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25. A. F. LEACH: AGREEMENT AND DIFFERENCE.
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Chaplin, W. N.
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SCHOLARS ,EDUCATION ,HISTORY students ,HISTORIANS - Abstract
This article discusses the problems in the use of educationist A.F. Leach's work by educationists and historians. General historians of the Middle Ages have not used Leach's work, but writers of educational history and of innumerable histories of individual schools' have. This poses the dilemma which faces the student of the history of mediaeval schools. If he wants information he must go to Leach's work, yet there is this doubt about Leach's reliability. Its the author's contention that the reason for this doubt is a mistaken interpretation of the review of "The Schools of Medieval England" by A.G. Little in "The English Historical Review." Scholar Joan Simon's criticism of the author's contention throws some light on this dilemma. She asserts that all subsequent critics have referred to the review. But there have not been any subsequent critics. She considers that the author has been unjust to these critics, and that every historian who has not used Leach's work has conducted some sort of independent inquiry into it but kept silent. Yet she says that criticisms were never followed up.
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- 1964
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26. Are Britain's Etons doomed to go?
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BRITISH education system ,EDUCATIONAL change ,EDUCATION of the upper class ,EDUCATION of the middle class ,UNITED States education system ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article explores the challenges being faced by Great Britain's traditional education system in the competitive second half of the Twentieth Century. The country's education system is based on Nineteenth Century concepts of training a ruling group from the upper and middle classes. The overhaul of the education system has emerged as a critical issue in the 1964 parliamentary elections. The British are currently evaluating U.S. and Russian education systems.
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- 1964
27. Man with a Four-Seat Margin.
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BRITISH economic policy -- 1964-1979 ,STEEL industry ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
The article reports on the economic policy in Great Britain in 1965. It reveals that Prime Minister Harold Wilson has planned to nationalize most of the country's steel industry but nothing in the Labor Party's platform has aroused so much fierce antagonism, for steel nationalization is about the last vestige of the old doctrinaire socialism. It also notes that the ten Liberals in the House of Commons have threatened to vote against Wilson on the steel issue.
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- 1965
28. Secondary Reorganisation in England and Wales.
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Peterson, A. D. C.
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SECONDARY education ,HIGHER education ,EDUCATION ,HIGH schools ,STUDENTS ,ACADEMIC achievement ,CULTURE ,PUBLIC administration - Abstract
The article focuses on the decision of the Great Britain government to implement a policy of secondary education which is influenced by the needs of students who plan to go on to higher education. The introduction of secondary education raised the school leaving age to 15, with the proviso that it establish a break at the age of eleven between primary and secondary education.
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- 1965
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29. The University Teacher of Education in England.
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Taylor, William
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COLLEGE teachers ,UNIVERSITY faculty ,TEACHER educators ,TEACHER training ,OCCUPATIONAL training ,EDUCATION ,EDUCATIONAL planning ,EDUCATIONAL ideologies - Abstract
The article focuses on the involvement of college teachers in educational activity in Great Britain. The education staff are responsible for the expansion of educational research. They are concerned with the training and guidance of lecturers who train would be teachers in colleges of education. Undergraduate teaching constitutes the rationale for an academic existence. The academic standards required by educators is concerned with the development of the whole person. The training of teachers was established longer than other professional courses in the country.
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- 1965
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30. AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON THE MOVEMENT FOR A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1830-1870.
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Farrar, P. N.
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EDUCATION ,EDUCATIONAL law & legislation ,PUBLIC institutions ,CHRISTIANS - Abstract
The article discusses the American influence on the movement for a national system of elementary education in England and Wales during 1830-1870. In 1826 it was enacted in Massachusetts that the school committee shall never direct to be purchased or used, in any of the town schools, any school books which are calculated to favour the tenets of any particular sect of Christians. It was legally permissible until 1855 for there to be no religious teaching whatever and this freedom was very similar to that permitted to Board schools under the Cowper-Temple clause of the Elementary Education Act of 1870. However, until a Board of Education was established in Massachusetts in 1837 there were serious defects in the common school system arising from the lack of any supervising Board. Until 1867 political controversy centred about the extension of the franchise, and when a Liberal government came into power with a large majority in November 1868 the main task confronting the government was the pacification of Ireland. The question of national education did not come to the front of the political stage until the autumn of 1867.
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- 1965
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31. Confusion, Concentration and Clarification in Higher Education.
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Venables, Peter
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HIGHER education ,EDUCATION policy ,EDUCATION ,SOCIAL policy ,COLLEGE students ,LEARNING communities ,PUBLIC institutions ,SCHOOLS - Abstract
The article explores the situation in higher education in Great Britain as of November 1965. It highlights the results of the report of the Committee on Higher Education chaired by Lord Robbins. The report proposed that the numbers in full-time higher education should grow from 216,000 in 1962/63 to 392,000 by 1973/74, and further to 558,000, by 1980/81. The article argues that the situation in higher education is very confused, full of uncertainty and charged with underlying ambivalent attitudes of the government, education and industry towards each other. It also discusses the establishment of cooperative schemes between industry and universities and the influence of the Science Research Council in developing relationships between industry and the universities. The article also suggests that need to fully utilize scarce resources is bound to become increasingly important as the number of students to be educated increases in the technical college as well as in universities and colleges.
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- 1965
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32. An Economic Interpretation of the Private Demand for Education.
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Blaug, M.
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EDUCATIONAL planning ,EDUCATION ,ECONOMICS ,INVESTMENTS - Abstract
The purpose of this article is to explore some of the relationships between educational planning and manpower planning.[1] It is frequently argued that the expansion of the educational system should be based on detailed forecasts of the educated manpower that will be required in a growing economy. My emphasis is somewhat different: it is that manpower forecasts in a developed country like Great Britain must take account of the likely expansion of education. The basic argument will involve four variables: demand and supply in "the education market", and demand and supply in the labour market. All of these are policy-variables, in the sense that they are subject to a measure of control by the public authorities. But only one of them, supply in the education market, is a policy-variable pure and simple, and some of them--demand in the labour market is an example--can only be influenced by the State to a limited degree. It is precisely this which creates problems for both educational planning and manpower planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1966
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33. YOUTH AND WORK: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES.
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Keil, E. Teresa, Riddell, D. S., and Green, B. S. R.
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SCHOOL-to-work transition ,EMPLOYMENT ,YOUTH ,EMPLOYEES ,LABOR ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article presents information on the working life of young people. The literature on the adjustment of young people to working life is large, but lacks coherence. Although the subject has become a popular research topic, there have been no thorough surveys of the field. The literature on adjustment to work is even less helpful. One of the major features of any adjustment to a worker's role or position, however defined, must be the preparation received in school. This article, in the light of an extensive survey of the literature, develops a method of approach that differs from those adopted by the small number of previous writers who have found any theoretical interest in the topic. The provision of full-time education for the whole of the population of Great Britain is less than a hundred years old. Proportions going into unskilled work decline steeply as the age of leaving increases, but even among seventeen-year-old leavers, about one of four goes into unskilled work. It is hoped that the present approach will serve students of the field both by establishing a framework for the interpretation of previous work, and by generating problems for solution. The complexity of the interrelationships involved is apparent, but a recognition of their existence as opposed to the accumulation of more or less ad hoc correlations must contribute to more fruitful research.
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- 1966
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34. New Commonwealth Students in Britain (Book Review).
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BOOKS ,EDUCATION ,STUDENTS - Abstract
This section provides an overview of the book New Commonwealth Students in Britain.
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- 1967
35. PIAGETIAN THEORY INTO INQUIRY ACTION.
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Buell, Robert R.
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CONSTRUCTIVISM (Education) ,SCIENCE education ,CURRICULUM change ,CURRICULUM ,COGNITIVE development ,PSYCHOLOGY of learning ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article focuses on science teaching and the teaching of the essential mathematics for science in the United States and Great Britain. In studying the gap between theory and practice in the curriculum of mathematics and science, a thinker identified that revisions in curriculums are reforms which have nothing to do with the psychology of learning. Related to this concern, the contention of Piaget on cognitive development is considered. He identified five stages of cognitive development. These are sensori-motor actions upon things, contemplation about things, pre-operational actions upon things, concrete operations with things, and intuitive operations with things.
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- 1967
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36. The social sciences press: United Kingdom.
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MacRae, Donald G.
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SOCIAL sciences ,EDUCATION ,DEPRESSIONS (Economics) ,SOCIAL policy ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article comments on the present situation and development in the social sciences in Great Britain. The social sciences in general, and in specifically, had a long pre-history. An intelligent observer in the year 1800 would not have had a word for sociology, and would not have known the phrase social science. Economics, and to a lesser degree politics, were firmly established in the universities before 1939. The importance of politics in the conduct of administration and the making of policy was recognized. The experience of economic depression was productive of a diffuse belief in planning which resulted in a new readiness of mind to accept social research. In 1945 this resulted in a growth of demand for social science education and information. All the social sciences grew steadily in the following years. Partly through the encouragement of UNESCO, national associations came into existence in such fields as politics and sociology. They were no novelty in economics. Social administration as a subject of study advanced with the growth of a welfare state. But the real revolution was to follow, and it still continues.
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- 1967
37. Correspondence Instruction and the Use of Self-instructional Media in Schools.
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Holmberg, Börje
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CORRESPONDENCE schools & courses ,DISTANCE education ,UNIVERSITY extension ,EDUCATION ,PUBLIC institutions ,INSTRUCTIONAL systems ,TEACHERS - Abstract
The article reports on correspondence education and the use of self-instructional media in schools in Great Britain and Sweden. It discusses the two separate applications of correspondence course materials in schools. The practice of correspondence study in schools, under the supervision of teachers is examined. The article also discusses the use of correspondence course units as self-instructional media without written work being submitted to the correspondence school. The planning of modern correspondence courses is considered.
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- 1967
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38. THE PRIVATE AND THE SOCIAL RETURNS ON INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION: SOME RESULTS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
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Blaug, Mark
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RATE of return ,EDUCATION ,INVESTMENTS ,HIGHER education ,WAGES - Abstract
This paper summarizes the results of two recent efforts to estimate rates of return to educational investment in Great Britain. Because there is no basic source of age-education-income data such as is available in the U.S., the analysis employs data which are by-products of several surveys conducted for other reasons. Consequently, rather extensive adjustments in the data were required. The rate-of-return results indicate that, while there is little evidence of social overinvestment in higher education, some social underinvestment appears to exist at the secondary level. However, the private rates of return tend to exceed those for alternative investment forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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39. THE EXETER PAPERS, REPORT OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ADULT EDUCATION.
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Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Brookline, MA., HAYGOOD, NOREEN, and LIVERIGHT, A.S
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A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IS PRESENTED AND IS APPLIED TO NATIONAL REPORTS ON ADULT EDUCATION IN FIVE COUNTRIES. THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS FEATURE COMPONENTS OF THE FRAMEWORK AND DETAILED DATA ON THE TOTAL EDUCATIONAL SCENE IN CANADA, HONG KONG, INDIA, ISRAEL, SUDAN, THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, PUERTO RICO, AND YUGOSLAVIA. CHAPTER 3 THROUGH 7 PRESENT NATIONAL REPORTS FROM HONG KONG, INDIA, ISRAEL, UNITED KINGDOM, AND YUGOSLAVIA. CHAPTER 8 REPORTS BRIEFLY ON IMPORTANT THEMES AND APPARENT AREAS OF AGREEMENT, INCLUDING PROBLEMS OF PROGRAM STATUS, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION, FINANCING, AND THE PLANNING OF CROSS CULTURAL AND COMPARATIVE RESEARCH. AMONG THE AREAS PROPOSED IN THE LAST CHAPTER FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION ARE TRAINING AND RESEARCH, TAXONOMY AND TERMINOLOGY, CULTURALLY RELATED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, AND THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC PATTERNS ON THE NATURE AND ORGANIZATION OF SYSTEMS OF ADULT EDUCATION. THE DOCUMENT INCLUDES 29 TABLES AND CHARTS AND 84 REFERENCES. (LY)
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- 1968
40. THE SOCIOLOGICAL MOVEMENT, THE SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND THE GENESIS OF ACADEMIC SOCIOLOGY IN BRITAIN.
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Halliday, R.J.
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SOCIAL movements ,HISTORY of social sciences ,EDUCATION ,SOCIAL services ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article focuses on the sociological movement at the turn of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, founding and early history of "The Sociological Society" and with the beginnings of sociology as an academic subject. Certainly the sociological movement had something very close to a common working doctrine. Put in its simplest form, this doctrine held sociological investigation to require a prior or parallel examination of man's biological evolution. Emphases were differently placed, but very few sociologists could avoid a concern with the historical evolution of human nature, with man's adaptation to the conditions of existence and with the role of natural laws and biological mechanisms in social activities. The Sociological Society, at least for some of its founding members, was an institution to emancipate sociological science from the over-sight of academic economists and British anthropologists. In the language of the day, both eugenics and civics had become conflicting and dispersive specialisms. It had simply not been possible to create a unified sociology to be taught at University. Most courses in sociology founded at this time were intended to train people for social work.
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- 1968
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41. THE GROWTH OF EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT IN THREE COUNTRIES, 1895-1964.
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Cullity, John P.
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EDUCATION ,EMPLOYMENT ,STUDENTS ,PUBLIC schools ,LABOR supply ,OCCUPATIONS - Abstract
Statistical data which may be useful to students of economic change are presented in this paper. It interprets long-run statistical series on the growth of educational employment in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, and provides information on the changes in the relative importance of employment in public schools to total governmental employment and to total employment over the long run. Finally, an analysis of the statistical record indicates that some potentially interesting interrelationships exist between the different proportions of school-age population attending public school, teacher-student ratios, and different ratios of school-age populations to total employment in these countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1969
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42. A CANADIAN VIEWS BRITISH AND AMERICAN SECONDARY SCHOOL SCIENCE.
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Norris, Stanley
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CURRICULUM ,SCIENCE education ,SECONDARY education ,EDUCATION ,GRADUATE study in education ,INSTRUCTIONAL systems ,EDUCATION policy - Abstract
The article focuses on the Canadian curriculum concept of science education in British and U.S. secondary schools. British and U.S. education does not have an equal effect on Canada's educational system. Canada's geographic proximity to the U.S. aided American influence. It is suggested that nations including either England and Wales or Canada should review not only their own history but also other nations' contributions to a discipline prior to innovation. Great Britain's history of science education has periods of distinct emphases which include education traditions such as laboratory-oriented science teaching and a high degree of subject specialization. With regards to U.S. science education, curriculum developments are readily available.
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- 1969
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43. THE MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE: CRITIQUE OF THE USE OF TYPOLOGIES IN EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY.
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Davies, Ioan
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *KNOWLEDGE management , *EDUCATION , *IDEOLOGY , *LEARNING - Abstract
This paper begins by examining the typology of educational systems outlined by Earl Hopper m Sociology (vol. 2, no. I, 1968) and argues against the attempt to reduce the comparative study of education to varieties of occupational selection. On the other hand, accepting that a central part of the sociology of education must be with ideology and the generation and transmission of learning, it outlines a framework for examining this in Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1970
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44. THOUGHTS ON UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN DERMATOLOGY.
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Sneddon, I. B.
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DERMATOLOGY ,MEDICAL education ,CURRICULUM ,BRITISH education system ,MEDICAL students ,MEDICAL sciences ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article focuses on undergraduate education on dermatology in Great Britain. If a medical school did not possess an inspiring dermatologist, many students qualified with virtually no knowledge of skin disorders, nor, it must be said, was the skin likely to have had any but a passing reference made to it in the departments of physiology and pathology. Attention was drawn to the inadequacies of the training of undergraduates in dermatology and, although there has been some improvement since that time, it is still possible to qualify in a British medical school with less than 30 hour of instruction in dermatology included in the curriculum of five-and-a-half years. A good case must be made for the time which educationists desire the student to devote to the study of dermatology; and the maximum use must then be made of that time.
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- 1970
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45. THE NEWLY APPOINTED INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS: AN ASPECT OF MANAGEMENT.
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SCHOOL administration ,EDUCATIONAL planning ,SUPERVISION ,SCHOOL administrators ,EDUCATION ,BRITISH education system - Abstract
This article reports that the inspectorial roles of the British Ministry of Education and the Local Education Authority are in essence complementary, as expressed in a former Board of Education Report 1922-23--the one supervises education over the whole country for the purpose not only of safeguarding the parliamentary grant, but of administering in convenient fashion results and suggestions derived from continuous recorded observations; the other must supervise and provide for the various grades of education taken together and in their actual relationships within the particular area. The most important priority for Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools is to interpret to the local education authority in acceptable fashion the wishes of the Minister of Education, to ensure that Ministry and Local Education Authority work together in harmony. As a corollary, he also helps the Minister understand the point of view of the Local Education Authority, for their partnership is fundamental to successful administration. Inspector therefore humanizes administration, he is an educational ambassador. Moreover, he represents a most useful of fictions in his independence of the Ministry of Education.
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- 1970
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46. Youth culture and the school: a replication.
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Polk, Kenneth and Pink, William
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YOUTH'S conduct of life ,ADOLESCENCE ,LIFESTYLES ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article presents a discussion on the youth culture in the United States and Great Britain and the growing disinterest in school. The article is a replication of a previous study related to British schools, concerning involvement in youth culture and the school orientation of the student. Adolescence is a time of stress and educational decision making. There are two dominant adolescent life styles available to the student. Firstly, that of the official pupil role-involving the acceptance of values and norms held by the school. Secondly, there is the teenager role, which is basically an inversion of the pupil role. For many students the school has nothing to offer, and thus the pupil role lacks appeal. These disinterested students subsequently seek, through the teen culture, another means of gratification and status reward. The pupil role, then, is representative of the adult society, and the teenager role represents a youth culture that holds values and norms that are opposite to those of the adult society. Adolescents involved in the youth culture will demonstrate their membership in distinctly characteristic ways: by dressing and adorning themselves in styles not shared by their parents. There are two different attitudes that young people may show in their choice of styles: one is to strive for real individuality in dress and manner, the other is to express solidarity with fellow teenagers by wearing what serves as their uniform.
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- 1971
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47. Ambition, Occupational Values and School Organisation.
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Toomey, D. M.
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EDUCATION ,WORKING class ,PARENTS ,FAMILIES ,SOCIAL classes - Abstract
The article presents some evidence from Great Britain of the influence exerted by children's educational attainments upon working class parents' aspirations for their children. Low aspirations and distinctive values found in working class communities are developed and maintained and a number of studies of predominantly working class populations have shown a tendency to rely on networks of informal contacts in providing information about job opportunities and in exercising influence to obtain jobs. Two different measures were developed of the home background provided by the family. One of these measured the number of "middle class attributes" possessed by the parents and referred to their education and the occupations they had held and to the education and occupation of their fathers and the education of their mothers. The other referred to the families' expenditure on housing, consumer durables and the decoration and furnishing of the home. Increasing importance of formal qualifications and educational attainments in occupational selection is giving more power to the formal agencies of the school and the Youth Employment Service and is substituting universalistic for particularistic criteria in job selection.
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- 1971
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48. OPEN SCHOOLS ON THE BRITISH MODEL.
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Rogers, Vincent R.
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PRIMARY school facilities ,ALTERNATIVE schools ,PRIMARY education ,INDIVIDUALITY ,EDUCATION ,CHILDREN ,QUALITY of life ,CURRICULUM - Abstract
The article presents the primary schools in Great Britain and discusses their characteristics, which are so much unlike the traditional and formal institutional settings. Informal schools are characterized with mobility of children, acceptance of individuality, children's works are evaluated over a period of time and emphasis on concrete materials. American teachers, parents and administrators took great interest in such setting due to lack of significant human contact in the American quality of life, child-centered approach of the informal schools and obvious joy of the children.
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- 1972
49. The University of Warwick SSRC Industrial Relations Research Unit.
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Price, R. J.
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RESEARCH institutes ,INDUSTRIAL relations ,LABOR unions ,LABOR market ,LABOR laws ,FACTORY management ,ORGANIZATIONAL behavior research ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article presents a news brief related to research at the University of Warwick SSRC Industrial Relations Research Unit in England, as of July 1, 1972. Topics of ongoing research projects include industrial relations in factories, organizational behavior in labor unions, economic aspects of labor markets, and labor law and legislation in Great Britain.
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- 1972
50. Design for Patient Care.
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Rogers, Pamela J.
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HOSPITAL planning ,MEDICAL care ,NURSING ,MEDICINE ,INVESTMENTS ,EDUCATION - Abstract
Focuses on the planning for a new hospital system design for patient care in Great Britain. Establishment of a multi-professional planning committee in hospitals; Contribution of nurse as a project team member; Importance of investments in education in planning and design for medical professions.
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- 1972
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