Education + Training: Volume 10 Issue 11

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Table of contents

HMC

The public schools, as demonstrated last month at Oxford, are as far away from accepting any community responsibility in education as they ever were. Indeed if Mr Howarth, High…

Educational Technology One

Educational technology is no more than the application of mechanical devices to the learning process. It has been over‐written and over‐rated; but it still applies that the…

Michael Tobin

Current attempts to produce a satisfactory definition of programmed learning are sometimes interpreted as a sign that programming has not lived up to its early promise. Why else…

Bernard Dodd

Programmed learning is scrambled books or small steps. Teaching machines are ludicrous. Educational technologists are slide projectionists who like using long words. Training is…

Shirley Toulson

One of the most vital of the many factors behind the teaching revolution of the past decade has been the rapid development of programmed learning. It owes its wide acceptance…

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

My first school, like everyone else's, was a local nursery school run by an old spinster who ironically enough loved children. At this lovely little school I learnt nothing apart…

H.M.C

Roy Nash

As an exercise in political technology this year's annual meeting of the Headmasters' Conference must win a prominent place among the historical events of the post‐war educational…

PREPS

James Render

The Public Schools Commission's first report has already become a rather bad educational joke. Some are still laughing at it; others, within just three months, have half‐forgotten…

Leavers

Brian Jackson

Why do children go to school? Is it to teach them differences between rights and wrongs? Is it to develop their sense of what they are, or might become? Is it to prepare them for…

The Parents

Bruce Kemble

Parents were given a unique chance this month to prove they really care about their childrens' education. The national day organized by the Home and School Council on 10 October…

Films

Chris Edmonds

Pity the school‐leaver. How often does he peruse the piles of seductive careers literature only to find that it makes him even less able to decide exactly what he wants to do…

VIEW

Edward Boyle

When the House of Commons resumes this month one of my first tasks as Opposition spokesman for education will be to press the Government to ‘come clean’ over the University…

COMMENT

Gordon Bennett

The government brought to a halt the comprehensive reorganization of secondary education by its decision to cut the building programme. It announces now its intention to complete…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken