{"title":"Lifelong Learning: Getting Started","authors":"Paul E. Barton","doi":"10.1086/443419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443419","url":null,"abstract":"What will be written here is based on the presumption of a shared conviction that increased access to a variety of forms of education throughout life, to meet a variety of needs of individuals, and the social and economic systems which sustain individuals, is a worthwhile goal. It is much more an exploration of some practical ways to advance toward this goal than it is an effort to establish the desirability of the goal itself. Others are attempting this kind of analysis. While a quantitative analysis may eventually assist in answering such questions as whether lifelong learning is a worthwhile goal, what kinds of economic costs and benefits can be predicted in advance, and whether financing much larger-scale activity is feasible, it does not have that capability at the present time. There is, however, a considerable base of experience on which to build, and a combination of this experience, statistical information of a rather ordinary type, and judgment will have to inform action for some time to come. No such conviction can be shared, however, unless some understanding is reached on what it is based, and any significant action depends on a considerable consensus that more access to learning throughout life is achievable and worth achieving. The reasons for the proposition of significant advance in lifelong learning opportunity are of two major types. One is that large set of things that is basically unchanging but with which we never came to satisfactory terms. The other set of reasons arises from those changes in society and economy that are now occurring at a rapid pace and which show signs of continuing or even accelerating. Even this broad categorization oversimplifies, because some of the changes that are occurring require access to education at several periods of life, and some of the changes we want to make require access to education in order to make them.","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"232 1","pages":"311 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90498224","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":"Current Federal Programs for Lifelong Learning: A $14 Billion Effort","authors":"P. Christoffel","doi":"10.1086/443421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443421","url":null,"abstract":"A record 17 million persons were registered in adult education activities between 1974 and 1975, according to data recently released by the National Center for Educational Statistics. Studying in twoand four-year colleges or in programs sponsored by employers and public agencies, adult enrollments increased by 30 percent over the period 1969-75 while the number of full-time students over 17 in high school or college increased only 4 percent. Other sources estimate even larger enrollments. The heightened interest of adults in education has been reflected in Washington in the past year. Congress, under the urging of thenSenator Walter Mondale, developed and passed a lifelong learning bill designed to encourage federal planning, assessment, and coordination of lifelong learning activities nationwide.' Senator Edward Brooke has announced plans to introduce a lifelong learning financing bill. Higher education associations, labor groups, senior citizen organizations, federal personnel, and Congressional staff now meet regularly in Washington to discuss lifelong learning issues of mutual interest.","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"309 1","pages":"348 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85597429","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":"Evaluating Vouchers in WIN","authors":"Solomon Arbeiter","doi":"10.1086/443429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443429","url":null,"abstract":"Hope springs eternal in the public servant's breast, and, as evidence, we have two reports on an attempt to further both a program effort and a financing theory held dear by the federal establishment for at least a decade. I refer, respectively, to the program of training for low-income, unemployed workers to increase their skills and job prospects and the concept of financial entitlement--directing funds to the prospective student rather than to the institution as a method of increasing individual options. Most of us are somewhat familiar with the Work Incentive Program (WIN). It is a noble effort to develop in welfare recipients a repository of job skills and competencies to enable them to reenter the labor market with some expectation of success. The primary process utilized is commonly referred to as ETR, although I am at a loss to distinguish between education and training; anything that is learned is, as far as I am concerned, part of an educational process. The idea of an educational voucher first came to prominence during the Johnson administration and the War on Poverty. To develop flexibility within the system of public elementary and secondary education, it was proposed that students and their parents be given funds to enable them to shop around in both the public and private sectors and purchase the educational services they thought most desirable. The idea was to increase options for the individual and develop a greater responsiveness in educational institutions. Now we have reports of two studies of experiments in Portland and Baltimore that gave vouchers for ETR to WIN participants.","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"31 1","pages":"499 - 503"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80002631","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":"Financing Higher Education and Social Equity: Implications for Lifelong Learning","authors":"H. Levin","doi":"10.1086/443420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443420","url":null,"abstract":"One of the basic attractions of the lifelong learning concept is that it might represent the vehicle for providing a more equitable distribution of learning opportunities and experiences among different social classes, races, and age groups, and between men and women. While the lifelong learning approach has not yet been clearly defined, it differs from the conventional educational approach by explicitly recognizing the existence and potential development of socially provided learning opportunities of many varieties over the entire life span. Thus, lifelong learning experiences would encompass much more than just formal schooling. They would include formal and informal training, self-study, travel, and all of the other institutional and noninstitutional experiences that contribute to human formation and development. The major reason that a lifelong approach might be more equitable than the present approach is its flexibility. By tailoring learning experiences to the needs of individuals on a more flexible basis, it is possible to take into account the special needs of different persons and groups. In contrast, the present system places a great deal of emphasis on relatively limited and uniform types of educational experiences at particularly early stages of life, especially those prior to entering the labor force. For persons who are able to benefit from those types of experiences at this relatively early phase of their lives, there are probably important benefits in the present system that are not reaped by those who need a more flexible approach.","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"96 1","pages":"327 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89983188","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 Needs: Definition, Assessment, and Utilization","authors":"W. Griffith","doi":"10.1086/443423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443423","url":null,"abstract":"Meeting the needs of learners is probably the most persistent 'shibboleth in the rhetoric of adult education program planning and has already begun to appear in the literature concerning lifelong education. Ephemeral articles and substantial textbooks emphasize the necessity for the program planner to assess the needs of his intended learners as a first, if not the first, step in the modern, or for that matter traditional, practice of adult education program planning. The purpose of this paper is to examine the concepts of need and need identification, the process of need assessment as it is perceived by adult educators, and the evidence of the adequacy of need assessment in adult education in terms of participation rates.","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"51 1","pages":"382 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79798958","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 Evolution of Educational Thought: Lectures on the Formation and Development of Secondary Education in France. Émile Durkheim , Peter Collins","authors":"W. Vogt","doi":"10.1086/443412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"16 1","pages":"285-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86855660","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":"Contact Theory and Racial Tolerance among High School Students","authors":"Charles S. Bullock","doi":"10.1086/443405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443405","url":null,"abstract":"An article of faith among supporters of desegregation has been that if blacks and whites interact with each other, firsthand experiences will undercut unreasoning prejudice. The hope is that as students of different races work and study together they will come to realize that intelligence and ignorance, kindness and rudeness, physical prowess and clumsiness, and the vast range of other human characteristics are distributed among members of both races. In time such realizations may prompt students to cease applying stereotypes to all members of the other race and to begin responding to individuals on the basis of personal characteristics. In essence, then, the argument holds that bringing whites and blacks together will lead to cross-racial contact which will lead to a better understanding of the other race which should promote greater racial tolerance. Gordon Allport (1958) tempered these expectations, noting that if contact is to have positive results, certain conditions must prevail. In the absence of equal status between the races, mutual interdependence, common goals, and support from law, custom, or authorities, interracial contact will simply accentuate the attitudes held by students prior to the biracial experiences. Thus, without the proper environment, biracial interaction will reconfirm the intolerance of the prejudiced and perhaps result in rising intolerance among those who had been unprejudiced. Scholars who study the consequences of desegregation often have not considered whether any of Allport's prerequisites for contact to lead to improved racial attitudes have been present. Consequently, it is not surprising that research focusing on the relationship between desegregation and racial attitudes has not produced a set of consistent","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"20 1","pages":"187 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78052764","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":"American Public School Administration: A Short Analysis","authors":"J. March","doi":"10.1086/443406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443406","url":null,"abstract":"Most major professional and semi-professional groups in the United States are currently in productivity trouble. Expenditures on medical care and the incomes of doctors, dentists, and nurses have risen, but there has been no comparable improvement in the health of the population. Expenditures on legal services and the income of judges, lawyers, and police officers have risen, but there has been no comparable improvement in the extent of justice or the crime rate. Expenditures on government and the income of public officials have risen, but there has been no comparable improvement in the quality of public services.","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"55 6","pages":"217 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/443406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72477151","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":"Book Review:Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing Mina P. Shaughnessy","authors":"A. Bernstein","doi":"10.1086/443415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/443415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83260,"journal":{"name":"The School science review","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77925174","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}