Education & Pedagogy

A consultation between industry and education representatives in Great Britain explored dimensions of partnerships for the education and training of young people beyond compulsory schooling age. Because lifelong learning was deemed essential, adult continuing education stands to gain much from closer and more effective partnership with industry. (SK)

Argues that multicultural curricula are appropriate, given the percentage of minority youth in urban school systems. Notes that most textbooks still marginalize women and minorities and that most academic core curricula, being Eurocentric, alienate minority youth. (DM)

Based on a survey of individuals involved in decision making about technology education, the concerns of curriculum, teaching, facilities and equipment, role and place of technology education, and support and advocacy of technology education are discussed. Recommendations from the survey group are included. (KR)

A study of four- to six-year-old children in China compared experimental and traditional teaching methods of music education. Findings supported the value of the Comprehensive Musicianship Education approach for students. (SH)

This brief directory of information sources at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia), which is dedicated to the education of preschool through graduate level students who are deaf, includes descriptions and contact information for school enrollment information, general information, books and materials, and deafness-related services. (DB)

Provides information on 89 staff development videotapes covering a wide variety of topics relevant to gifted education. Topics include giftedness characteristics, creativity, curriculum, identification, international issues, minority issues, multiple intelligences, motivation, programming, talent development, methods, structure of the intellect, and underachievement. (Author/CR)

Discusses problems in education, and examines problems of computer usage. Explores how computers could lead to improvements in education with individualized learning, interactive software, computer-based courses, language-based interfaces, and distance learning. (PEN)

Discussions with three groups of further education students in Britain explored their orientations toward study, their responses to vocationalism, and the processes influencing their emerging identities as learners. The processes were linked with the global context of education. (SK)

Today, communication is immediate and provides increased opportunities for strengthening the interaction process that is one of the key elements of any distance education course. Distance education courses should become models for effective interaction in the teaching and learning process. (JOW)

Describes distinctions between learning, training, development, and education and illustrates how different models of human resource management/development influence their meaning. Concludes that training, development, and education are an integrated whole linked by the concept of learning. (SK)

Discusses the advantages of having an advisory council to provide advice; to draw from the business, industrial, and professional communities; to provide a cohesiveness among programs within an institution; and to provide a link between education and the real world. (JOW)

Notes that declining local resources and state and federal policies demand more intercommunity collaboration. Discusses how continuing education can help rural communities by promoting multicommunity collaborations, expanding the perspectives of community leaders, and presenting new models for local development. (SK)

Notes technologies that facilitate open learning are intended to make participation easier but they also limit what students can access. Suggests advocates must broaden their agenda to address questions of what is being accessed, how, and why. (SK)

Discusses six ways in which technology is transforming science education in classrooms across America. Discusses jet fuel for science reform, access to inaccessible worlds, thinking like scientists, turning data into pictures, exploration through simulation, and bringing teachers up to speed. (JRH)

A collaborative group of postgraduate students in education and their supervisors identified issues related to the long completion times and high attrition rates of education postgraduates. Students felt ill prepared for research and experienced isolation, lack of resources and structure, and changed power relationships. (SK)