Education & Pedagogy
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Includes five articles: "Women in Management" (Zimmerer); "Business Boot Camp (interviews with young entrepreneurs)" (Kaser); "Plan Your Own Business Project" (Kohns); "Business Education and the Middle Level Student" (Patterson, Leblanc); and "Small Business Ownership Planning" (Fiber). (SK)
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Evaluates the effect of equal opportunity legislation on women's role in British higher education. Finds some progress in curricular change but many obstacles to women's participation in administration. Proposes a transformational model that would democratize institutions. (DM)
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Introduces the special issue on refugee education by discussing (1) refugee status and rights; (2) ways in which refugee settlement status and characteristics of the host country affect educational opportunities; and (3) education for adult refugees and identification of research needs. (SK)
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Reviews the life and work of British adult educator Raymond Williams, including his ideological bases, teaching methods, and publications post-World War II to 1960. Includes 195 reference notes. (SK)
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Although education and training were distinct concepts when Taylorism dominated the workplace, it is no longer appropriate to separate them. Today's highly competitive environment requires the education of a flexible, multiskilled workforce, not training for narrowly defined employment tasks. (SK)
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Popular education, with its agenda for social change, often lacks access to traditional financial support. Strategies for resource development include volunteers, small proportion of public funding, an umbrella organization to distribute funds, and collaboration with adult educators in mainstream institutions. (SK)
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Reviews the policies, programs, and funding of continuing professional education in the European Community. Envisions the role of U.S. continuing education providers in Europe in the future. (SK)
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Discusses the argument among critics of American higher education on the relationship between theory and practice. Compares the ideas of John Dewey and Bernard Lonergan and examines the movement from classicism to method and its significance to education. (DM)
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Describes adult bilingual vocational education programs at the Career Development Center in San Francisco (California) that include the following components: (1) needs assessment; (2) program design; (3) coordination; (4) learning English; and (5) materials development. (JOW)
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Trade unions closely monitor the impact of structural adjustment programs on employment and the industrial relations system, particularly as they affect wages, collective bargaining, and the exercise of union rights. (JOW)
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Discusses the role of workers' education in the promotion of trade union rights; union rights in practice; problem areas such as exploited groups, political activity, and striking. (JOW)
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Six articles examine several of the critical components of program and personnel development in agricultural science including linkages between agriscience and natural resources teachers and high school science teachers, science in agriculture, biological science applications, and hydroponics. (JOW)
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Suggests that the basic challenge for multicultural education is the development of communication curricula that are appropriate to multicultural settings. Proposes reexamining perspectives, theories, and methods to understand valid principles that enable generalizable insights. (PRA)
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Maintains that the teaching/learning styles implicit in Educational Drama offer native education students a teaching/learning methodology which is compatible with a native teaching/learning style. (SR)
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Public and nonpublic higher education institutions differ in the manner in which an allegedly aggrieved party can seek redress. Discusses relevant cases concerning constitutional standards, contractual problems, and damage to reputation. (124 references) (MLF)