Education & Pedagogy

Critiques the views of E.D. Hirsch, highlighting limitations of his book, "The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them." The paper acknowledges Hirsch's influence on public opinion about school reform, but details flaws and errors Hirsch makes, asking foundational scholars in teacher education to better prepare students to respond to social, economic, and cultural changes affecting equity issues. (SM)

Describes the Teacher Educator Institute, a program in the context of Jewish education that is designed to develop educational leaders as teacher educators, those who plan and provide professional development for classroom teachers. The program strives to develop a leadership cadre that is generally missing within the North American system of Jewish education. (SM)

Investigates the nature of expertise in the interpretation of cultural artifacts, particularly the Concheros dance of Mexico. Tests CD-ROM-based multimedia software designed to teach expert evaluation strategies. Shows that, compared with a control group, students using the software exhibited a greater ability to interpret the Concheros dance. (DSK)

Interviews with British employers, employees, and teachers indicate that employers and employees find much of what is taught in General Certificate of Secondary Education math and English is not relevant. They desire practical mathematics, oral communication, and interpersonal skills. Teachers feel that education has a broader role than preparation for work. (SK)

Developed a tool to help health-education researchers match manuscript submissions with the most appropriate journals. The Delphi method was used to elicit information from health-education leaders/scholars on primary content areas in health education, preeminent journals, and information about the journals. The results include nine categories and 81 journals, which are identified in this article. (SM)

Explores the educational experiences of Australian travelling circus people, who regularly cross the boundaries between urban and rural, as evidence contradicting pervasive negative stereotypes about rural education. Discusses implications of these experiences for reinvigorating education in rural Australia. Calls for enactment of strategies that celebrate the positive dimensions of what makes rural communities different. Contains 16 references. (Author/CDS)

Assessed the health-related physical-fitness knowledge of preservice and inservice physical education teachers and graduate students in physical education and exercise physiology. Survey results indicated that exercise-physiology graduate students surpassed all others in knowledge. Though preservice teachers had relatively poor knowledge levels, their knowledge progressively increased with experience in the preservice program. (SM)

Examines the economic, social/cultural, and educational barriers that low-income, working-class, Irish students experience in accessing higher education. Suggests that the dynamic role of the state, in creating and maintaining inequality, needs to be systematically addressed; resistance can be accomplished by targeting structures from state institutional systems to the individual practices in classrooms. (CMK)

Asserts that art education is an essential ingredient of a strong curriculum. Discusses the advantages of art education and the importance of art and aesthetics to the business community as an incentive for changing attitudes of art-education antagonists. Gives three stories capturing the vision of effective art teaching for the 21st century. (CMK)

Presents new forms of information technologies (e-mail, CD-ROM, WWW) that can be used in distance education and lead to "global classrooms." Contrasts these forms with traditional distance education, and compares them with regard to social dimensions, and dimensions of sensorial modality and productivity. Discusses global classrooms from the educational-political perspective. (DSK)

Outlines major reform postulates and reform projects in teacher education in the Great Britain and the United States, including national standardization, orientation toward competency and educational practice, and functionalization of school reform and teacher-education reform for national competitiveness. Points to a marginalization of theory in favor of practice-oriented training. (DSK)

Presents a computer-mediated discourse on the Pythagorean equation in a university classroom of preservice and inservice teachers. Shows how the use of a spreadsheet as a two-dimensional modeling tool enables students to conjecture the general solution to the Pythagorean equation. Argues that a computational approach to the ancient problem improves the well-known off-computer discussion. (Author/ASK)

Discusses common themes in the limited research on Appalachian institutions of higher education: interinstitutional links and links between institutions and the broader community. Reviews trends that offer research opportunities (the impact of K-12 reforms on higher education, effects of information technology on higher education, student leadership training, service learning, resource sharing, Appalachian Studies) and suggests information sources. (TD)

Teaching the research process through service-learning projects increased student interest in research at Bethel College (Minnesota). Examples of eight such research projects in nursing education are discussed, including their impact on community partners and students. Guidelines for academic-community research partnerships cover building partnerships, involving students, ensuring quality research, and structuring student reflection on learning. Contains 16 references. (TD)

Reports on findings of a joint Sino-Japanese study comparing conventional and television-based higher education in China, examining student satisfaction and student expectation of higher education, relative to the resourcing of conventional and radio and television universities ("universities without walls") in China. Reports on a supplemental survey into the experience of radio and television university students in rural areas. (AEF)