Education & Pedagogy

Presents a collection of articles on blacks in higher education, including such topics as: older black students; blacks in academic nursing; black medical school enrollment; blacks in academic psychology; black colleges being ignored by the Rhodes Scholarship Committee; school desegregation in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Louis Farrakhan as a GOP ally; and the numbers of black women teaching university-level mathematics. (SM)

Examines the role of education in influencing Turkish immigrant girls' choice between a more secular and a more religious nationalism, linking their choices to strong forms of nationalism within their native country and to the reality of the immigrant context. Education plays a decisive role for immigrant girls in defining their places within a specific nationalistic worldview and within Western society. (Contains references.) (SM)

Examines the historical contributions of women's colleges and their role in providing access to higher education for women, exploring contemporary contributions toward educational equity for women, particularly in the areas of positive role modeling and mentoring, leadership, achievement in male-dominated major fields such as mathematics and science, and pedagogical and curricular innovations. (Contains references.) (SM)

Describes an integrated curriculum project, Fit Newton's Great Adventure, that combined science, reading, writing, and physical education in cooperative problem-solving tasks. This hands-on learning experience was successfully implemented with at-risk fifth graders at a rural elementary school. Five tables provide illustrations of project components. (SM)

Describes how one college of education built its computer infrastructure and technology expertise. Essential in this process were a commitment on the part of the dean, significant funding, technology training sessions, and the expertise of technology specialists. The integration of technology throughout this college has positioned it to become an innovative leader infusing technology into its educational programs. (SM)

Acquiring subject matter knowledge and developing teaching methodology in university coursework facilitates changes in conceptions of teaching. Professional conferences and mentor programs help beginning teachers continue acquiring this content and pedagogical knowledge. Through this developmental stage, physical educator majors' and beginning teachers' understanding of teaching takes the form of different levels of conceptualization (preconceptions, naive conceptions, appropriate conceptions, and misconceptions). (SM)

Students enrolled in regular, special, or gifted education have much to offer society and should not be consigned to the quarantines of separate schooling, as in the case of "Plessy." Older tracking and assessment models have outlived their usefulness within the current context of a multicultural society. (Contains 20 references.) (MLH)

Currently, nursing education in Australia and New Zealand is entirely at the baccalaureate level. The United Kingdom is in transition to university-based diploma or degree programs. The majority of U.S. nurses graduate from two-year associate degree programs, although the American Nursing Association advocates the bachelor's degree as the entry-level standard. (Contains 30 references.) (SK)

Describes the attitudes of teachers who graduated from a small liberal arts teacher education program that required a cross-cultural education internship. Interviews and surveys indicated that the internships influenced teachers powerfully in six areas: the effects of culture on schooling; understanding school as a culture; understanding students and learning; curriculum; professional development; and attraction to difference. (SM)

This qualitative multicase study explored the perceptions of three special education teachers of students with learning disabilities who had themselves received special education services for learning disabilities. Specifically, the study focused on how participants' past experiences with receiving special education influenced their current practices as special education teachers. (Case studies.) (Author/DB)

Reports a study which included a one-year occupational patterns and program assessment survey of the graduates and dropouts of secondary business and office education programs in Alabama. A flow chart (which evolved out of the study) depicting a local-state system for conducting periodic follow-up studies in business and office education is included. (EM)

Designed to measure and compare the satisfaction and satisfactoriness of office employees eighteen months after graduation from APEX model office (a simulated training program), cooperative office education, and office procedures courses, this study also sought to determine any differences among the three programs on a number of job and education-related variables. (Author/BM)

Data from a 1976 survey indicate: continued emphasis on education in ambulatory care, without coordinated primary care training efforts; leveling-off of interest in HMO's; no significant change in the number of affiliated programs for training nurse practitioners or physician's assistants; and marked increases in internal medicine and pediatrics residency programs. (Author/LBH)

The development and validation of the Test of Thematic Analysis (TTA) are described. The TTA measures the effects of liberal education as distinct from other kinds of education and general maturation. Scores were higher among seniors than freshmen at traditional liberal arts colleges. No significant differences were obtained at two vocationally oriented colleges. (Author/EVH)

Presented in question and answer format, the article reports on an interview with M. Reynolds which focused on the challenge of renegotiating relations between regular and special educators in light of their changing roles, and the implications of Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and the individualized education plan it requires. (Author/PHR)