{"title":"Does \"Political Education\" Still Have a Purpose?: Notes on the 40th Birthday of an Educational Objective as Disputed as Ever","authors":"H. Giesecke","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220422","url":null,"abstract":"The political and journalistic embarrassments in face of the question of how we should deal with the 40th anniversary of the German capitulation made clear that there is no moral and political consensus on this event and its background. However, since it was the capitulation and not the ratification of the Basic Law (initially the latter was only a by no means certain consequence of the capitulation) that marked the actual birth of this republic, the dissension continues to have consequences for our political identity.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126367766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of the Altruist Attitude: Testing and Evaluation of a Program Centered on Helping Behavior","authors":"M. Frydman, Gina Ritucci","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220435","url":null,"abstract":"The numerous experiments that have dealt with helping behavior in a critical situation since the first research by Latane and Darley [21] were carried out essentially on adults. These studies, generally done in the laboratory, at least allowed the identification of certain variables that favor the reaction of evasion or abstention. These are, for example, the presence of witnesses, or the ambiguity of the situation. In the latter case, the subject tends to observe the other persons present. If they do not intervene, the situation appears less serious, less grave than when the individual must confront it alone. We have then the non-perception of the critical character of the incident, caused by the passivity of others; the authors cited have called this non-perception pluralistic ignorance.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122692250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curriculum Development for Political Education in the Netherlands","authors":"Hans Hooghoff","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493422046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493422046","url":null,"abstract":"After World War II, various political and social groups strove for \"socialization\" of education. This socialization was to manifest itself in the attention schools devoted to social aspects of life and civic education. The Secondary Education Act of 1963 secured a place for \"maatschappijleer\" in all secondary school timetables. The actual introduction of the subject was in 1968. The development of the subject in vocational education was fairly autonomous. In a number of vocational school types, the subject was already included in the schedule.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116060104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Comprehensive School--A Reform Model in Contradiction.","authors":"Jörg Schlömerkemper","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220359","url":null,"abstract":"A few figures will give a quick orientation on the comprehensive schools: the first integrated comprehensive school in the Federal Republic was opened in 1968. There are currently (1986) 243 integrated comprehensive schools (ICS) in the state school system (see [2, p. 32]). If in addition one includes the 200 cooperative comprehensive schools (CCS) (see [1, p. 235]) the number of state comprehensive schools in the Federal Republic will soon be 450.1 If at the same time one also considers that in 1986 there were more than 32,000 schools providing general education in the Federal Republic, the minority position of the comprehensive school becomes clear: 5.7 percent of all seventh graders attended an integrated comprehensive school in 1984-1985, and 4.4 percent attended a cooperative one. This means, in other words, as before, 90 percent of pupils in the Federal Republic attend a school of the traditional type (Hauptschule, Realschule, and Gymnasium). The table shows how the Federal states diverge from these...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"334 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116125694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on School Improvement in Scandinavia.","authors":"M. Ekholm","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493422036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493422036","url":null,"abstract":"In this selective review of research of school improvement in the Scandinavian countries—Denmark, Norway, and Sweden—we use the definition of \"school improvement\" first proposed by Miles and Ekholm [26]. They state that school improvement is \"a systematic, sustained effort aimed at change in learning conditions and other related conditions in one or more schools, with the ultimate aim of accomplishing educational goals more effectively\" [p. 48]. Using this definition, we focus on school improvement that occurs at the local level. We also focus on efforts that are planned and managed rather than those that are haphazard. We deal mainly with school improvement at the comprehensive level of the school system in the three countries.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"40 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121173600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disagreements and Accommodations in the Colleges (1981-1986): Material for a Sociology of the \"College.\".","authors":"J. Derouet","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220321","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the balance sheet of a survey done from an anthropological perspective in twenty French colleges from 1981-1986. The study concerned the conditions that enable individuals to fashion coherent settings in schools at the macro- and microlevel. The former henceforth is referred to as school establishments or merely schools; the latter, the microlevel, is labeled \"situations\" and implies mainly classrooms. In the colleges, these settings had to rest, if they were to be effective, on some agreement on the definition of democratization, which at present is lacking. In its absence, a local accommodation among individuals takes the place of an arrangement based on universal principles. However, some traces of adjustment are appearing which would enable teachers to build for themselves a new identity based on a negotiation of general interest.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129264167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecological Education: The Structuring of the Man-Nature Relationship as the Guiding Theme of a Pedagogical Quest.","authors":"H. Mikelskis","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493422026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493422026","url":null,"abstract":"There is no theory of ecological education, a fact which both impedes and facilitates a paper on this topic. On the one hand, one strays into a hopeless mesh of terms and fragmentary conceptions, in constant danger of becoming entangled. (Volume 2, Environmental Education, of the CALLIES/LOB handbook of environmental and peace education [7], for example, contains over 700 pages with contributions from seventy authors.) On the other hand, this very lack of theory gives me a certain amount of freedom to shape the theme myself.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115179854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reform and Counterreform in the Teaching of Natural Sciences","authors":"Michael C. Ewers, A. Kremer, L. Stäudel","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220292","url":null,"abstract":"Michael Ewers died before the printing of our joint article. We have lost in him a colleague whose readiness for political dialogue on the teaching of natural sciences in the schools, even at the risk of being branded an outsider, united him with his many colleagues. We have much for which to thank Michael Ewers.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116747580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mathematics Rally.","authors":"Christian Salzmann","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220229","url":null,"abstract":"Eighteen thousand pupils in the educational district of Orleans competed in teams to defend the colors of their establishment in an original and amusing test. Who said that mathematics was a forbidding subject?","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127701688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Astronomy Project Week.","authors":"Gabriele Lapport","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220232","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the organizational framework, didactic and methodological considerations as well as the content of a four-day astronomy project1 in the Gymnasium upper level. Information on the media used, related literature, and the instruments of observation round out the description.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114978451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}