IDEALS AND METHODS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR THE COMING WORLD ORDER∗

This article brings to bear on our understanding of learning many insights from the field of psychology

     

BCI—代数的结合理想和广义结合理想

本文引进了BCI-代数的换位理想这一概念.借此对BCI-代数的结合理想作了进一步的研究,得到了理想成为结合理想的若干充要条件.同时,本文还推广了结合理想的概念,建立了BCI-代数的广义结合理想的概念.讨论了它的若干重要特征,进而用理想刻画了广义结合BCI-代数.     

CHANGING IDEALS IN EDUCATION SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE COLLEGES SINCE THE CIVIL WAR

In the last issue of RELIGIOUS EDUCATION considerable space was devoted to the subject of student values. In connection with this study, religious leaders on a number of selected campuses were asked to comment on the situation with respect to values among the students with whom they are working. Comments from Harvard University, Hunter College and Ohio State University were published in that issue. The following two additional articles represent the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and Marquette University.     

Green关系与广义理想

本文拟在完善和加细Green关系,在完整叙述了Green与广义Green关系和广义理想的对应性质之后,着重给出D关系相应的广义理想的性质,且在某些半群上讨论了此类广义理想和D是一致的。与此同时,讨论了Green与广义Green关系的一系列特征和性质。     

HEALTHY,HAPPY, AND OLD: CHILDREN LEARN ABOUT THE ELDERLY

This study explored the effectiveness of a curriculum in fostering children's positive attitudes toward the elderly and their own aging. The curriculum was developed around three major goals: (1) increasing children's knowledge of the elderly; (2) enabling children to assess their own aging positively; and (3) decreasing negative stereotyping of the physical and behavioral characteristics of the elderly. A total of 108 children in kindergarten through the sixth grade received the curriculum; 107 children in the same grades served as the control and did not participate in the curriculum. The test. Children's Attitudes Toward the Elderly (CATE) (Jantz, Seefeldt, Galper, & Serock, 1976), was administered on a pre‐post paradigm. Multiple regression analyses were computed to assess the effects of the curriculum on posttest responses on the CATE. The results indicated that the curriculum was effective in fostering positive attitudes toward the elderly as measured by the total score, F (1,209) = 5.28, p <.05; in knowledge of older persons, F (1,209) = 5.41, p < .01; and in changing stereotyped thinking about the elderly. The curriculum, however, did not significantly change children's negative attitudes toward their own aging.     

RELATIONS BETVIEEN EDUCATION,RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The following six articles concerning relations between education, research and production are based on some papers presented during the CEPES Symposium on Relations between Education, Research and Production‐ in Higher Education in Europe. The main findings of this meeting, which was held in Bucharest from 26 to 28 June 1979, are presented in the chapter “CEPES Activities” on page 33 of this issue.

As can be observed, the following articles cover different aspects or problems of the relations between education, research and production’ in higher education, some of them refer to national situations, others analyse types of study which include productive work or/and research, and still others refer to institutional experiences. However, in spite of the divergence in the topics dealt with here, all papers and articles are based on a common, present‐day reality: that numerous reforms and programmes have been or are being introduced, the objective of which is to require that higher education become more closely linked with the world of professional and productive activities.     

LEISURE, FREEDOM, AND LIBERAL EDUCATION

A bstract .  At present liberal education is generally understood and justified as the acquisition of critical thinking skills and individual autonomy. Traditionally, however, the ultimate purpose of liberal education has been leisure. Freedom, it was thought, was not simply the result of critical thinking but also required the cultivation of leisure that involved a vigilant receptivity — a stillness from the busy world of work and the restive probing of a discursive mind. In this essay, Kevin Gary argues that the cultivation of leisure has been and ought to be an essential part of what constitutes a liberal education. Focused on interior freedom, leisure offers a valuable way of learning that ushers in an authentic freedom that a critical approach to learning and liberal education does not. Accordingly, it offers a valuable defense against the hegemonic world of work that defines and appraises one's value exclusively in terms of one's doing.     

DEWEY,SITUATIONISM, AND MORAL EDUCATION

According to a number of authors, character is dead. On their view, the evidence is in, and all of our attempts to inculcate character in our students have not only failed, but are in fact destined to fail for various reasons. They base their conclusions in part on a number of experimental results that have been obtained since the 1920s, collectively known as situationism. If these authors are right, then the current emphasis on character education in the United States (and elsewhere) is woefully misplaced. On the contrary, however, Matthew Pamental argues in this essay that situationism's evidence is being misinterpreted. A Deweyan sociocultural approach to the nature and ideals of character both explains the evidence and reveals how character can be reconstructed and revived.