Showing papers on "Compulsory education published in 1976"

Compulsory Education, Not Compulsory Attendance!

Abstract: This writer takes issue with the viewpoints on compulsory education expressed in the "Point- Counterpoint" section of the September 1975 issue of the NASSP Bulletin. He emphasizes the differ ence b...

Post-compulsory education: a survey of recent publications

Abstract: is generically new in its essence, as well as in many details. So in dealing with a "new" population, "new" areas of study, and a "new" orientation, we are not dealing with substitutes or partial alternatives to older patterns of education in order to suit the increase of enrolments or students from less familiar types of compulsory school. We are beginning to deal with an upper-secondary school and lower-tertiary (collegetype) system that constitutes a completely fresh alternative to everything that went before - even in the present Oberstufe of the West German Gymnasium, the second cycle of the French lycee, the sixth form of English schools. The publications reviewed here and listed at the end of this article, as well as numerous other papers and official documents, are valuable reinforcements of the new interest in reoriented post-compulsory education - not because they originally set out to illustrate that new theme as their main topic, but because they examine in closer detail its many manifestations. Much re-thinking has already been necessary in order to accommodate the scholastic explosion of numbers and interests; and the widening of occupational horizons now requires a new orientation. It is also true that the shock of student confrontation in 1967-8 is constantly referred to as an immediate cause of reorientation; but the challenge was already discernible (and openly expressed in some places) during the early 1960s. What students learned was often very different from what the teachers and providers intended: namely, that much school instruction was "cut off from life ... hostile to communication between per