Education & Pedagogy

Contends that the key to success in the area of professional administrator-adviser relations is two-fold: continual education and open lines of communication. Describes the author's experience as both an administrator and journalism adviser. Provides examples of the challenges provided by this dual role. (PM)

The British government's core curriculum for prison education is similar to the competency-based national curriculum. A better approach would be a broader vision of prisons as "secure colleges" with an integrated learning program that measures intangible but important outcomes such as increased self-worth and positive attitudes. (SK)

Difficulties with current models of ethics education (correct reasoning, virtue theory, directive moral education) include emphasis on reward/punishment and a presumptive bias toward abstract reasoning. Teaching a care-based ethics would promote a fuller notion of mature moral agents and broaden the school climate beyond compliance. (Contains 19 references.) (SK)

Discusses minority language education in Malaysia, a multilingual and multicultural country. Looks at four language minority groups and what they have done to to provide beginning education programs for their children that use the children's native languages. (Author/VWL)

Describes the status of drama education in Australian tertiary schools. Suggests that drama and other arts educators are nobody's core business--either in the curriculum or the organizational structure of tertiary schools. Concludes that drama is fairly healthy in higher education in Australia. (SG)

Explains the process for creating a curriculum in music education. Offers a definition of curriculum and address issues to be considered while designing the curriculum. Discusses how to incorporate the National Standards for Music Education, describes important music concepts, and offer guidelines for writing. (CMK)

Mentions a few signs of the value of history for science education. Discusses some of the wider benefits that might ensue from bringing history into science. Provides examples from the fields of physics and chemistry. (DDR)

Discusses what is meant by the scholarship of teaching and outlines what needs to be done to develop the scholarship of teaching in higher education through the disciplines, focusing on undergraduate education. Briefly reviews how far these concepts have been applied in the discipline of geography. (SLD)

An exclusionary clause in the Education for All Handicapped Children Act prohibits special-education services for "socially maladjusted or disaffected" children. Ingrained in public-education culture, this policy undermines educators' efforts to address the needs of students with evolving personality and character disorders. Nonintervention is becoming a costly alternative. (MLH)

If contributed lottery revenues do not increase education expenditures by the full amount of such revenues, education expenditures are said to be fungible. As Ohio's situation shows, this potential fungibility problem draws into question state officials' primary justification for offering a state-sponsored lottery. (22 footnotes) (MLH)

Explored the extent to which policies and practices promoting work-life balance (family friendly policies) have been taken up within the English higher education sector. Responses from 50 higher education institutions show that flexible working practices are more widespread than the formal policies of institutions would suggest. (SLD)

Considers the implications of the British Government's recent strategy paper on higher education. Concludes that the government faced many difficult issues and could not achieve all the desired objectives. It is likely that British higher education will remain underfunded, with increasing problems of quality. (SLD)

Among the ecological implications of globalization are war and social instability, production and consumption, corporatization and marketing, and environmental racism and sexism. Environmental adult education provides a space to examine negative impacts from multiple perspectives and reassert a focus on democracy. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)

Web-based learning can be liberating and enhance autonomy and reflection. However, new forms of computer-based learning also have the potential for panoptic surveillance and control of students, practices that are inimical to the values and philosophy of nursing education. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)

Describes the implementation and management of staff development for online education underpinned by the principles of situated learning. Describes technological, human resource, pedagogical, and management initiatives and presents a case study of how a small regional institution changed to being an internationally recognized e-university. (EV)