Education & Pedagogy
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Outlines methods to encourage faculty to teach courses in an interdisciplinary general education sequence. Strategies include offering incentives to faculty, obtaining administrative support, creating faculty development seminars, and increasing faculty collaboration across disciplines. (DMM)
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Factors that facilitate the integration of technology education and tech prep include problem-solving emphasis, current mandates, and business/industry linkages. Impeding integration are lack of understanding of the terms, image, tracking, and turf issues. A strong linkage could benefit both as well as students. (JOW)
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Discusses the changes in nursing education and suggests that a new education system be developed that supports loyalty to the community through alliance with those communities rather than with the current mediating systems. (JOW)
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African National Congress members in exile in Tanzania established the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College as a secondary school and community education center, seeking to continue the education of exiled South Africans while preparing them for liberation struggles. (SK)
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The Northern Progressive Union in Northern Nigeria saw adult education as an important component of emancipation. Its failures and successes illustrate for adult education today how effective collective enlightenment and fusion of education and political struggles are. (SK)
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Presents an elementary school principal's account of how he utilized corporate sponsorship to improve science education. The principal and seven teachers obtained grants and then recruited local scientific companies to become involved in their science education programs. (PR)
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Defines the functional role of evaluation in worker education; explains the relationship between evaluation and quality of learning; discusses precourse, on-course, and postcourse evaluation; outlines training managers' roles and responsibilities; and addresses management of the learning environment. (SK)
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A review of historical and philosophical aspects of technology within the context of education indicates that technology education has existed in some form throughout time. Because of its focus on solving human problems, technology education must include a liberal arts component. (JOW)
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Reports that the developmental process for national standards for K-12 instruction in the arts is nearing completion. Discusses issues and criticisms relevant to the national standards movement and to music education. (CFR)
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Approaches to integration include tandem/cluster courses, general education requirements, cross-curricular efforts, applied academics, academic modules in occupational courses, multidisciplinary courses, colleges within colleges, and remediation or English as a Second Language with an occupational focus. (SK)
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According to responses from 220 of 279 agricultural education faculty, 93% were influenced by a mentor, although few had intensive, comprehensive relationships. Mentoring was significantly related to career satisfaction, grants received, and graduate students advised. (SK)
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Discusses advances in mathematics education research in relation to recent reform efforts. Proposes a collaborative to build a mathematics education community of people working together to conceptualize and carry out research on mathematics teaching and learning. (MDH)
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Interviews based on grounded theory were conducted with 17 incarcerated adult basic education students. Trust was consistently identified as the most important perceived need reported by the students. The learning environment facilitator must ensure that trustworthiness prevails. (JOW)
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Two social welfare reformers in Cincinnati, Edith Campbell and Helen Woolley, used research on sex-typed jobs to influence the establishment of industrial training programs for girls early in the twentieth century. (SK)
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Analysis of education-industry links in Scotland revealed many competing, overlapping initiatives vying for space in curricula. Over 15 years, linkages progressed from hostility through burgeoning activity, mainstreaming, and declining importance. The education-industry curriculum has an ad hoc character. (SK)