{"title":"History and Geography in Elementary School: For a Change","authors":"L. Marbeau","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200214","url":null,"abstract":"The teaching of history and geography in elementary school stirs up public opinion in France from time to time. That is to say, the purposes and objectives of this pair of subjects carries some considerable weight in our society. Quite logically, these two subjects, associated with civic education and the economic, social, and political initiation of pupils, are mandatory in the curriculum for the preparatory course for the senior classes and also for the examination for the municipal secondary school diploma and for the Baccalaureat. In this respect, France is one of the countries which maintains these universal courses most consistently throughout pre-university education.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"320 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114058972","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":"Educational Research Workshop on Reading and Writing Skills in Primary Education","authors":"W. Wolf","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493420027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493420027","url":null,"abstract":"During the first day discussion focused on the central question of how to improve the efficiency of reading and writing to be learned.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133125990","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":"Case Study on the Use of Microcomputers in Primary Schools in Bar-le-Duc (France).","authors":"Robert Dieschbourg","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200244","url":null,"abstract":"The data processing and microcomputers experimental project that we shall be describing was set up on the initiative of a group of lecturers and teachers at La Meuse college of education, Bar-le-Duc, France.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133786221","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":"Change and Continuity in the Primary School: The Research Evidence","authors":"M. Galton","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200259","url":null,"abstract":"Since the publication of the Plowden Report in 1967, the study of teaching, based upon empirical investigations of classroom practice, has been one of the major growth areas in educational research. Most of the British studies, particularly those using \"direct\" or systematic observation as the major research technique, have been conducted in primary classrooms [20; 25]. Although the reasons for this focus on primary teaching were largely pragmatic (with one teacher per class it was easier and cheaper to obtain a reasonable number of observations), undoubtedly the controversies which developed in the wake of the publication of the Plowden Report stimulated and to a certain extent directed attention to a number of issues related to teaching methods in informally organized classrooms. Chief among these issues was the shift toward individualization of the learning process and the change in organizational structure of the classroom which could enable a teacher to achieve this objective. While the Report never ...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"96 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131263615","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":"Components of Desirable Schools","authors":"S. Shafer","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493420013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493420013","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue of Western European Education some components of what many people regard as a desirable school are presented. Historically, Western education has been shaped by the Greek and Roman heritage; the need of the Church to spread and perpetuate Christianity; the Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther's insistence that all people should read the Bible; the medieval guilds that developed the apprenticeship system to train their helpers and successors; and philosophers, political figures, behavioral scientists, and educators themselves. In our time we view these influences against the backdrop of contemporary social, political, and economic problems. How is education to be altered in response to them? What can we ask of our schools as they try to educate children and youth to meet these problems? What should schools be like if they are to aid the young to become knowledgeable, self-confident, socially responsible, ready to prepare for a career and to shape their lives in today's world?","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130633980","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 French Primary School and Literature for the Young: Benefits, Difficulties, and Promises of a Relationship at its Beginnings","authors":"Michael Soëtard","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200188","url":null,"abstract":"The time has passed in our primary schools when reading horizons were limited to deciphering a manual of judiciously chosen texts with marginal commentaries by pupils on the travail, the vexations, and the jokes accumulated over generations on this school exercise; the time has passed when the pupil who had done his work well (or worked more rapidly than the others) was rewarded with permission to take out a book from the little class library and read it in his own corner. The conditions of school reading have undergone considerable transformation in France over the past fifteen years or more, and there is no doubt that the development of literature for the young has played an important part in this transformation. A link has now been established between children's books and the school as an institution and, generally speaking, between the child and books within the school. This has certainly not been without its problems for both sides, but it represents an evolution in which there seems to be no chance ...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"84 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120841413","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 Primary School, the Future, and Democracy.","authors":"Arne Mortenson","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200173","url":null,"abstract":"Democracy is not what it ought to be. It has never been and it will (one hopes) never be what it ought to be. But if some day it should have come so far and become what it ought to be after all, it will be perfect, complete, and finished—in a double sense: a perfect democracy implies its own opposite or its own negation.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134172367","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":"From Headcount to Action: The Analysis of the Progress of Ethnic Minority Pupils in Schools","authors":"Michael Marland","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200126","url":null,"abstract":"The prime task of a school is to enable its pupils to achieve well in the full range of ways possible. To establish whether a school is doing as well as it should, examine how pupils are actually faring in as many aspects as possible of their development. In a world in which various ethnic groups have such differentiated positions of status, power, and educational success, this scrutiny has to be directed especially at any measurable differences between pupils of different ethnic backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122499012","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":"Reduction of Aggressive Behavior in the School","authors":"U. Petermann","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-4934200162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-4934200162","url":null,"abstract":"Aggressive behavior remains a very real problem in our schools. Teachers in the lowest track of secondary schools (Hauptschule) and schools for Special Education especially have to cope with the problem. In contrast to other problematic school behavior such as difficulty in concentration, poor reading and writing ability, or examination anxiety, aggressive school behavior is usually not manageable and indeed compels the teacher to react or intervene, either because other schoolmates are threatened or interfered with, school property is being destroyed, or the teacher is the direct target of aggressive behavior. In any case, the teacher has to meet the challenge. He must curb aggressive behavior and either find alternative ways to resolve a conflict or work out such ways with the pupil.","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126476517","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":"Eight Characteristics of a Humane School","authors":"H. V. Hentig","doi":"10.2753/EUE1056-493420016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/EUE1056-493420016","url":null,"abstract":"The greatest plague of a school is boredom—still today. And it cannot be relieved by human communication. Indeed one could say that that would even deprive pupils of a tried and proven domain where they can exercise their day-to-day imagination, their material and social intelligence: namely \"annoying teachers,\" cunning resistance to the \"enemy,\" deft evasion of burdensome demands. If we desire to provide instruction in which learning is not just momentary fun to be had in subjects which require no effort, but rather something which offers continuous thrills in important subjects, something really enjoyable, we would be well advised to fashion for ourselves a broad notion of methodology of instruction, or didactics. Didactics is not a theory of efficient utilization of time, of the rules of correct teaching, or of how prescribed goals can be confidently achieved. I even doubt that this art can, strictly speaking, be taught. On the other hand, \"to learn didactics\" must mean to acquire an arsenal of subject...","PeriodicalId":104526,"journal":{"name":"Western European Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117336953","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}