Educational research at the crossroads? An exercise in self-criticism

President of the International Academy of Education. Former Director of the Institute of Educational Research (1971–82), Chairman of the Governing Board of the International Institute for Educational Planning (1970–80) and Chairman of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (1962–78). He is the author of some fifty books and hundreds of articles.     

Pedagogical issues in distance education

Head of the Distance Education Division, Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi. Previous founder director of the Open School of India. Member of numerous committees and commissions at national level, in particular, the National Task Force on Broadcasting for Education (1980/81) and the Commission for Teachers — I Task Force (1983/84). Author or co-author of five books, including Open School India,and numerous articles.     

Going beyond the educational reform document

He was formerly Executive Secretary of the African Curriculum Organization (1976–86) and Programme Co-ordinator with the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (1986–88) and is the author of numerous publications dealing with education.     

School curricula and social problems

Director of the National Office of Didactic Centres, Italian Department of Public Instruction. Founding director of the European Education Centre at Frascati (1959–74). Author of numerous publications on education in the world, notably the three volumes of Invisible Capital(1975–81).     

Teaching for analogical transfer as a means of improving problem-solving,thinking and learning

Analogical transfer is transfer of a basic structure acquired through one or more instances to another instance. A basic structure like this is sometimes called a paradigm. Paradigmatic teaching, i.e. teaching for analogical transfer, requires the teaching of a basic structure by appropriate exemplars as well as the teaching of its application in various fields and contexts. This is demonstrated using research on teaching for problem-solving, inductive thinking, and learning-to-leam.Invited paper presented at the joint meeting of the Dutch Research Association on Instructional Processes (OTG), the German Division for Empirical Educational Research (AEPF) of the German Educational Association and the Division for Educational Psychology (FPP) of the German Psychological Association on April 23–25, 1989, at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.     

Who benefits from illiteracy? Literacy and empowerment

Formerly Associate Professor of Adult Education at the University of Dar es Salaam (1970–79) and Director of the Institute of Adult Education, United Republic of tanzania (1979–81). His fields of competence include literacy, adult education and participatory research. Author ofThe Adult Education Revolution in Tanzania and co-editor ofParticipatory Research: An Emerging Alternative Methodology in Social Science Research.     

Public education,liberalism, and the pursuit of moral autonomy

Wesley Cragg will respond to the interchanges by Jan Narveson and Larry Haworth (see pp. 60–75 of this issue) in a forthcoming issue ofInterchange.     

Autonomism: A defence of structural privilege?

Christian Bay will respond to the interchanges by Jan Narveson and Larry Haworth (see pp. 60–75 of this issue) in a forthcoming issue ofInterchange.     

Educational reform in Japan

Director General of the Japan Scholarship Foundation. Former Director General of the National INstutute for Educational Research (1985–89). Author of numerous publications on public education and education legislation.     

Current trends in vocational guidance in New Zealand

with research interests in applied psychology generally including career decision-making. Formerly lecturer in psychology at Massey University, New Zealand (1976–85), where she was responsible for university courses in vocational psychology.     

Eighth IHPST Group International Conference,Leeds, July 15–18, 2005

Announcement

Eighth IHPST Group International Conference, Leeds, July 15–18, 2005     

Caddie woodlawn: A feminist case study

Caroline Zilboorg is an associate professor of English at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. She has just finished editingRichard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, 1918–1920 (forthcoming from the University of Indiana Press) and is currently working on a book-length study of H.D.     

Women — Education — The labour market

Paper presented at the XIIth International Round Table for the Advancement of Counselling, 22–26 June 1986, University of Lund. Lund, Sweden.     

Educational administrative inservice education: An outline of a grounded theory

This article is based on a paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 5–9, 1988, New Orleans.     

Educational research in Latin America

Educational planning specialist at Unesco's Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC). Former staff member of the World Bank and Coordinator of the Latin American educational research exchange network (REDUC), he was also Head of the Chilean Educational Planning Office (1965–70). Co-author of Development of Educational Planning Modelsand of Eight Years of their Lives.     

The center for nontraditional learning: Problems and prospects in contemporary higher education

This paper discusses the rationale and procedure for establishing and maintaining aCenter for Nontraditional Learning. The author delineates the structure and budget for the Center. The Center includes an Unsponsored Learning Division and a Sponsored Learning Division. The author recommends that the Sponsored Learning Division be implemented before the Unsponsored Learning Division is considered. When the Sponsored Learning Division is well established, then the faculty may wish to consider a program for crediting unsponsored learning. The Center will assist the student in determining life goals, learning goals, and learning styles. This paper also delineates the process for developing a credentialing procedure for unsponsored learning. The importance of faculty support is stressed.     

An Analysis of the Core Cognitive Curriculum in Early Intervention Programs

This study investigates the existence of an identifiable core cognitive curriculum operative in early intervention programs—its substance and its suitability for preschoolers with developmental disabilities. As an initial approach, the authors present preliminary data on three specific questions: Have early intervention programs adopted a common set of developmental inventories for assessing children? Do the frequently used inventories share a common set of items? Are the common items adopted as Individual Educational Program (IEP) objectives? By polling members of the Division of Early Childhood (DEC), Council for Exceptional Children for their preferred assessment instruments, then listing the common items from their top choices, and, finally, comparing the listed items with written IEP objectives, the authors identified elements of a core curriculum in current use by many early intervention programs. Within the cognitive domain, it was found that at least one out of five items common to the developmental inventories—shapes, colors, quantities, sizes, and puzzles (includes formboards)—were listed as objectives on 75% of the IEPs collected from programs located in the same states as DEC respondents. The appropriateness of these "preacademic" instructional targets in the context of developmental "readiness" is questioned.     

Ethnocentrism in education: A comparative analysis of problems in Eastern and Western Europe

Professor of modern Hungarian Literature at Budapest University, 1965/66 visiting Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1981–88 Director General of the Hungarian National Institute of Pedagogy. Since 1989, responsible for educational and cultural research. Author of several books in his fields of competence.     

Educational Research, Policy and Practice: National Report on Secondary Education in Lao PDR

Following the adoption of a new education law in 2000, the government of Laos has initiated a series of reforms aimed at realizing the national strategy for human resource development for the year 2020. In implementing government policy, the Statistics and Planning Division and the National Research Institute for Educational Sciences have provided basic statistics to analyze the current situation, develop new curricula and teaching materials, monitor the reform process and undertake action research. The paper outlines the main achievements of the Lao education reform (e.g., quantitative growth of secondary education, curriculum and pedagogical reforms), concerns regarding difficulties in achieving key goals (e.g., low participation in mountainous areas serving ethnic groups), and strategies being adopted within the educational development plan for 2001–2005. Key Words: curriculum, educational goals, education law, educational reform, educational research and policy, ethnic minority, Lao PDR, secondary education, technical and vocational education