Education & Pedagogy

Presented are abstracts and analyses of eleven research reports related to mathematics education. Five deal with aspects of learning theory, three with classroom practices, and one each on student characteristics, cognitive development, and mathematics anxiety. Research related to mathematics education which was reported in RIE and CIJE between April and June 1981 is also listed. (MP)

Family history projects have been used extensively in social studies education. They help to personalize history and mediate an awareness of self in relation to others. This article details how one such project, implemented in a teacher education program, promoted dialogues of respect and fostered community among pre-service teachers. It includes suggestions for adopting similar projects in P-12 classrooms. (Contains 4 notes.)

Concerns the planning and development of facilities for community education. Examines the larger role of the community in the total educative process. Suggests that planners concern themselves with instruction as well as education, with the community as well as schools, with people as individuals rather than as groups, with the individual's goals aspirations rather than with those of the educator or the State, and with education as a lifetime of learning at all levels. (Author/DN)

In 1970s, the US career education achieved significant development and produced extensive and deep influences under the supports of the public. As viewed from the sociology, the production and development of the career education is induced by the deep social factors. The opening integrated career system supported by the school, the community and the enterprise is the effective measure to solve the problems such as social equity and the continually ascending unemployment rate.

1994 is an important year in South African history. It brought about significant socio-political changes in an attempt to undo the unjust practices perpetuated during the apartheid regime. The apartheid government had severely impacted all spheres and institutions of society, including education. In this interview, Vivek Vellanki asks Doctor Yusuf Sayed to discuss the education policy and the pursuit of equality in South Africa.

By analyzing the learning characteristics of learners and the features of interactive teaching in distance education, this paper proposes the curriculum implementation subject of network education, namely objects multi-directional interaction teaching mode, so as to improve teaching effectiveness and achieve teaching objectives to ensure the quality of teaching, and puts forward some specific implementation measures.

This article offers a critique of the concept of equality as it informs the White Paper on Adult Education: Learning for Life (2000). It also outlines the extent to which human capital theory can be seen to have effectively colonised lifelong learning from the outset of its adoption by the European Union with highly constraining implications for state-funded adult education in Ireland.

The main objective of this article is to offer an alternative discursive framework for teaching history and citizenship education in Québec, Canada. Enabling a more inclusive discussion around how citizenship is constructed, thinking interculturally allows us begin thinking about practical ways in which citizenship and history education might detract from the exclusive form of inclusion that currently resides in Québec's intercultural model (and, consequently, in history classrooms).

The article describes a one-semester course divided into five major areas: communications, decision making, relationships, drug abuse, and sex education and human sexuality. Eighth grade is a crucial year in terms of students' physical and emotional growth; Life Education specifically deals with these changes, helping students cope with them. (Author/AJ)

The article describes and discusses the theory and practice relationship that has taken place within teacher education and theological education by incorporating insights from various theologians and curriculum theorists. The article argues that both theology and education conceptualize the relationship between theory and practice in very similar ways and thus set the conditions under which potential interdisciplinary dialogue between theologians and educational theorists could begin by using transversal rationality.

In this chapter, the authors explore various types of cross-border higher education, considering equity and quality issues within these developments. With a particular focus on international branch campuses, the authors discuss the ways in which global competition for knowledge and economic development interact with tensions at the local level.

Media education in Russia in general has still not moved from the theoretical conceptions and local experiments to the wide practical implementation. It is necessary to consolidate pedagogical institutions of higher education, universities, faculties of journalism, experimenters in media education and also the media community, coordination of the interaction of state structures, the existing media educational centers and experimental sites in this sphere.

The voluntarism in Protestant theologies and practices has significantly shaped the education of lay and professional Protestant religious educators in networks of voluntary and academic training programs that through the years have emphasized the interdependence of pedagogical, religious/theological, and social science theories and practices. Cultural changes in the past fifty years, however, have disrupted shared assumptions about the purposes and practices of religious education, calling for the exercise of a new ecclesial educational imagination.

The purpose of this article is to provide a basic review of a hiring simulation fair, and to describe strategies for successfully implementing a similar organized event in a college/university teacher education program in order to better prepare students for the interview process.

Basically a report on an inservice training program designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the adult basic education program in Chicago, the report also details the problem of over-lapping jurisdiction of social agencies and the results of inservice meetings. Following the article is a nine-page explanation of a revised inservice training program improvement model for adult basic education multi-agency systems. (AG)