{"title":"Controversies in Education Policy and the Tasks of Science.","authors":"Erhard Schlutz","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493421036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493421036","url":null,"abstract":"Does the science of adult education need a second \"realistic turn\" as has been called for in recent educational policy statements by practitioners in further education? There is a widespread impression that science is less directly engaged in educational policy than it was twenty years ago and that it is less concerned these days with the broader social conditions and with technical and economic changes. But there are also examples to the contrary: for instance, the working group for vocational further education started by Goers and Voigt,1 the discussion on the social development of adult education in the Adult Education Commission of the German Society for Educational Science,2 and inquiries into the problems of the new media (e. g., by Ahlheim, Faulstich, Knoll, Lisop, and Schiermann). But despite such lists, there has indeed been a perceptible shift in emphasis in the tasks the science of adult education sets for itself, and above all in its perspective: away from the macro-level and back to the subje...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133345092","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":"Open College--Toward a New View of Adult Education (England).","authors":"David Davies, D. Robertson","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-49342103100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-49342103100","url":null,"abstract":"By examining the work of several Open College schemes, the authors draw conclusions on the contribution which this kind of provision can make and look at the possibilities for future developments.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114367137","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":"New Directions in Adult Education","authors":"S. Shafer","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493421033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493421033","url":null,"abstract":"For Western Europe, adult education might be said to have ancient roots. Surely the Church has always sought to educate the people in Christian beliefs and ritual. The same people were often taught about their obligation to show loyalty to king, nobleman, and anyone else superior to them in the class structure. The young men ordered to serve in the different armies that have fought across Europe were taught marksmanship, discipline, and obedience to commands. And the apprentice turned journeyman continued to learn his trade from the master.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125664710","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":"Friedrich Fröbel, the Profession of Kindergarten Teacher and the Bourgeois Women's Movement","authors":"Jurgen Reyer","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934210229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934210229","url":null,"abstract":"The (socio)-historical studies and discussions of the past few years on the genesis and development of social professions have revealed the bourgeois women's movement to have had a significant influence—indeed it seems to have been the driving force in the genesis of social service professions and the corresponding courses of instruction.1 Of course these are not new discoveries. Especially for those who had been trained for a social service profession and had their first professional experience during the Weimar period, this was all history experienced firsthand. But historical reassessments are also always effected from the standpoint of a changed framework of perceptions, which can lead to new approaches and interpretations.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125966613","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":"Formative Education: To Walter Asmus in Honor of his 85th Birthday.","authors":"E. Geißler","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934210288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934210288","url":null,"abstract":"1. In 1970, when I published a systematic interpretation of Herbart's pedagogical theory under the title \"Herbart's theory of 'formative education', \"[erziehender Unterricht] it was at a time when \"formative education\" was an accepted formula, in any event as a historicizing approach, and education in general was undergoing a highly critical assessment. If education was to have any validity at all, it could only be in the sense of Rousseau's negative conception, the famous \"d'empěcher que rien ne soit fait.\" Anti-authoritarian education was at the peak of its popularity and \"the tools of education\" were regarded fundamentally by many as the \"tools of manipulation,\" and that included many who otherwise had maintained a circumspect attitude toward the prevailing spirit of the time. Then, when toward the end of the same decade an \"educational deficiency\" in our schools became a topic of discussion, and a new \"courage to educate\" was put forth as a countervailing thrust, quite a few saw this as the emergence ...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"443 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115413039","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":"Profiles of Educators: Roger Cousinet (1881-1973).","authors":"L. Raillon","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934210271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934210271","url":null,"abstract":"Education can no longer be an action exerted by a master on his pupils, for such action has proved futile; it is, in fact, an activity whereby the child works towards his own development, in a favourable environment and with the help of an educator who is now there in a merely consultative capacity. It follows that active methods are not teaching but learning tools, that they must be placed in the hands of the pupils alone and that any teacher introducing them into his class will be prepared not to use them, and in so doing will refrain from teaching.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122015600","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":"Church and State in Irish Education in This Century","authors":"S. Buachalla","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934210297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934210297","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship of the churches and the state and the role which both play in the educational system have been central and sensitive issues in Irish political life in this century and the center of sustained controversy in the last century. In examining the pattern of the relationship in this century it will prove useful to refer in turn to the historical legacy and the present position, the educational policy of the churches and the response of the political system; some concrete policy issues will then be analyzed in an attempt to describe a model of the policy process and the place of the churches in it.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130459542","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":"Children and Fairy Tales—What Unites Them and What Divides Them","authors":"Rudolf Messne","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493421026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493421026","url":null,"abstract":"… and they did not want to leave the fairy tales. What did the creators of \"fairy tales for children and the home,\" Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, think of the relationship between children and fairy tales? Was their view shared by their contemporaries? What changes has the assessment of fairy tales undergone over time down to the present?","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122066723","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 Higher Education in Ireland","authors":"P. Clancy","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493421016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493421016","url":null,"abstract":"The Republic of Ireland has experienced rapid social and economic change during the past three decades. Its economic transformation in particular is linked to a number of initiatives which commenced in the late 1950s. Henceforth, economic development was to be pursued through a policy of rapid industrialization to be achieved with the help of foreign investment and to be sustained by export-led growth. While this policy has faltered seriously in recent years, the rapid economic growth achieved in the 1960s and through much of the 1970s has brought about a radical transformation: the percentage of the workforce employed in agriculture declined from 36 percent in 1961 to less than 16 percent in 1985. Within the non-agricultural workforce, the main growth areas have been in the professional, administrative, technical, and other skilled occupational groups.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128815410","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":"University Financing, 1979-86.","authors":"P. Moore","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934210130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934210130","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 1986, universities found themselves in a serious situation, the seeds for which had been sown some quarter of a century earlier. Immediately after the Second World War moderate but steady growth had occurred in the university sector, numbers reaching a plateau at the end of the fifties. The general feeling around 1960, shared by both the major political parties, was that considerably more needed to be done in the tertiary education field if Britain was to maintain its position as one of the leading developed nations. It seemed, moreover, a natural consequence of the effects of the wartime Butler Education Act that universities should respond to the impetus that had developed in the schools since 1944. Both teachers and pupils had indeed come to expect that places in tertiary education should expand to match the numbers fit to fill them; moreover those places should be available in the subjects desired by the students themselves. The motive power for the enhanced demand that was then sense...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133433399","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}