Table of contents
HMC
The public schools, as demonstrated last month at Oxford, are as far away from accepting any community responsibility in education as they ever were. Indeed if Mr Howarth, High…
Educational Technology One
Educational technology is no more than the application of mechanical devices to the learning process. It has been over‐written and over‐rated; but it still applies that the…
Michael Tobin
Current attempts to produce a satisfactory definition of programmed learning are sometimes interpreted as a sign that programming has not lived up to its early promise. Why else…
Bernard Dodd
Programmed learning is scrambled books or small steps. Teaching machines are ludicrous. Educational technologists are slide projectionists who like using long words. Training is…
Shirley Toulson
One of the most vital of the many factors behind the teaching revolution of the past decade has been the rapid development of programmed learning. It owes its wide acceptance…
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
My first school, like everyone else's, was a local nursery school run by an old spinster who ironically enough loved children. At this lovely little school I learnt nothing apart…
PREPS
James RenderThe Public Schools Commission's first report has already become a rather bad educational joke. Some are still laughing at it; others, within just three months, have half‐forgotten…
Leavers
Brian JacksonWhy do children go to school? Is it to teach them differences between rights and wrongs? Is it to develop their sense of what they are, or might become? Is it to prepare them for…
The Parents
Bruce KembleParents were given a unique chance this month to prove they really care about their childrens' education. The national day organized by the Home and School Council on 10 October…
Films
Chris EdmondsPity the school‐leaver. How often does he peruse the piles of seductive careers literature only to find that it makes him even less able to decide exactly what he wants to do…
VIEW
Edward BoyleWhen the House of Commons resumes this month one of my first tasks as Opposition spokesman for education will be to press the Government to ‘come clean’ over the University…
COMMENT
Gordon BennettThe government brought to a halt the comprehensive reorganization of secondary education by its decision to cut the building programme. It announces now its intention to complete…
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0040-0912e-ISSN:
1758-6127ISSN-L:
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- Dr Martin McCracken