{"title":"Science and Technology in the Primary School.","authors":"C. Richards","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220282","url":null,"abstract":"From 28 July to 1 August 1986, the English authorities (the Department of Education and Science) in cooperation with the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Co-operation (CDCC) held a symposium in Cambridge on science and technology in the primary school. This symposium was an integral part of the project on primary education (the education of the 5-6 to 11-12 age group), one of the CDCC's main projects for 1983/86.","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":"125927904","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":"Primary Schoolteachers' Understanding of Science Concepts","authors":"C. Kruger, Mike Summe","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220273","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of a National Curriculum in British schools means that, for the first time, science will be a mandatory part of primary education for all pupils and all primary schoolteachers will have to teach the subject. A feature of the new curriculum is that there has been a move away from a process approach to primary science to one that stresses the importance of content In fact the final report of the National Curriculum Science Working Group [5] recommends a weighting of 35 percent for knowledge and understanding, while the Secretaries of State would prefer a considerably greater emphasis than this (see the comments of the Secretaries published at the front of the Working Group's report). Whatever the final weighting, the inclusion of a substantial amount of conceptual content clearly raises the question of whether primary teachers themselves have the knowledge and understanding to teach the curriculum. The recent Education Reform Bill's proposals for testing primary pupils at ages seven and ele...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"18 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":"133028959","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}
H. Spada, K. Opwis, Jacques Donnen, M. Schwiersch, Andreas Ernst
{"title":"Ecological Knowledge: Acquisition and Use in Problem Solving and in Decision Making","authors":"H. Spada, K. Opwis, Jacques Donnen, M. Schwiersch, Andreas Ernst","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220249","url":null,"abstract":"The acquisition of ecological knowledge is one of the central goals of environmental education. The cognitive skills underlying knowledge acquisition and the process of knowledge utilization are also interesting from a psychological view. Ecological knowledge refers to very complex, often dynamic and nontransparent phenomena [7, 8]. Moreover it is interrelated with emotions and values and of course with intentions and actions [11, 13, 25]. But, up to now, the process of knowledge acquisition and the manner in which this knowledge is represented in memory and how it is utilized in decision making have not been analyzed in enough detail.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"92 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":"133843870","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":"Renovating Science Education","authors":"S. Shafer","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493422023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493422023","url":null,"abstract":"Americans, Western Europeans, others in Europe and the developed world, and also those in its less developed areas live with a concern for acid rain, ozone depletion, cures for AIDS and cancer, toxic and radioactive wastes, addiction to drugs or alcohol, airline and airport safety, food additives or famine, nuclear accidents, and the destructive power of the weapons of war. The list could only too easily be extended, but for our present purposes it suffices. We are merely trying to lay the basis for the importance of effective science and technology education for the young and perhaps their elders as well. Not only is a thorough understanding of many science topics essential today for human beings, but these subjects must be included among those matters upon which citizens express concern and insist on a relentless search for solutions. We include technology here since often the scientist together with the technical engineer in their collaborative work inadvertently turn put to threaten the environment.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"8 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":"124037419","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":"Regional Learning and Learning Localities: Old Town Osnabrück and the Noller Ravine","authors":"Christian Salzmann","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220220","url":null,"abstract":"While before, regional learning primarily concerned the school [the first part of this article appeared in Grundschule, no. 3, 1989], people of all ages now are becoming concerned with the topic of \"learning localities.\"1I am consciously drawing a distinction between the current term learning site and the term learning locality. As the name suggests, learning sites are sites or places in which something can be learned. Hence any place can become a place of learning in association with the described courses of instruction, excursions, or school hikes. The woods, the meadows, the brook, the handicraft shop, the hospital, a shopping center, etc., can be places of learning if the experiences acquired there can be linked to classroom instruction.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"73 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":"131263694","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":"Sport without Frontiers: Just an Unrealistic Wish?.","authors":"M. Koch","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220186","url":null,"abstract":"\"A labor force was summoned and what came were human beings\" [2, p. loo]. This quite true comment is further underscored if one takes a look at the growth of the employment of foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany. Today's society must deal with the following facts: —The duration of sojourn of foreign citizens is increasing steadily; —the number of foreign children and youths is also increasing; —most of these want to remain permanently in the Federal Republic.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125369120","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":"England's Class Society in Change: The old educated elite is declining—but what then?","authors":"W. Rulf","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220125","url":null,"abstract":"Once the monarch on Europe's oldest throne reigned over a fifth of the globe and every fourth person on earth was a subject of His British Majesty.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116722548","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":"Education in the Postmodern Period.","authors":"Hasso von Recum","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493422016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493422016","url":null,"abstract":"After years of intensive reform zeal, it was discovered with dismay that moral education was slipping out of the hands of the schools, or had already done so. It was decided to reverse the rudder. The school was to again provide moral education, transmit values, and make its contribution to the stabilization of social values.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131544991","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":"Turkish Children and Youth","authors":"O. Saydam","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220180","url":null,"abstract":"Almost all the Turks living in Switzerland belong to the Moslem faith. According to the teachings of the Koran, the nucleus of human society is a patriarchal extended family in which the roles, tasks, and duties of the individual members are very precisely set down according to sex, sexual maturity, and current age. In contrast to other holy writs, the Koran does not stop at creating an order and discipline for the individual, but also regulates in concrete terms all relations in the social and economic environments of human beings.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131810308","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":"Personal Development through Profiling: A Critique.","authors":"P. Broadfoot","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934220148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934220148","url":null,"abstract":"Although a great deal of research and evaluation is currently being conducted into profiles and records of achievement, relatively little is still known about how pupils themselves respond to such recording. Material drawn from reviewing sessions is used to highlight some of the potentially important issues in this respect and how the outcomes are likely to differ from the counseling situation. Among these issues are teacher domination, differences between high- and low-achieving pupils, and gender variations in response. Stress is placed on the need for further systematic study of this aspect of profiling if we are to avoid instituting a procedure that, far from being a source of motivation, is perceived by pupils as just one more imposition on them.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"11 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129116719","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}