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Discusses an Australian task-force report on future needs of management, addressing from a business education viewpoint the issues of philosophy of management education, theory versus practice, government role, curriculum renewal, technology, and the nature of management. (SK)
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Compares the National Business Education Association's National Standards for Business Education and the Vocational Technical Education Consortium of States' Administrative Support Occupations Skills Standards. Discusses their use in preparing secondary and postsecondary students for the changing workplace. (SK)
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Describes adult education challenges--helping people live in harmony with the environment and with diversity--and the tension between professionalization and radical education strands of the field. Explores the consciousness formed in the agrarian and industrial eras and the emerging vision-logic consciousness. (SK)
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Reviews literature related to gender, science discourse, and the discourse designed to enhance girls' post-school options through nontraditional choices. Contains 116 references. (DDR)
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Examines situations in which science impinges on everyday life and in which school science education is of little use. Argues that relevancy goes beyond acquiring knowledge of conceptual understanding. Contains 33 references. (DDR)
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Results of the Group Embedded Figures Test taken by 78 Navajo students in agricultural education showed that most were field independent. Their style varied by gender and degree of traditionalism. (SK)
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Following criticism of a previously described concept model, a new diagrammatic model of outdoor education (outside the classroom) and environmental education (inside the classroom) is proposed that defines and clarifies terms and shows overlapping methods, instructional settings, grade levels, and objectives. (SAS)
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A workshop based on a mini-case study explores design issues for using videoconferencing in continuing health education. Presenter orientation, appropriate visuals, modular structure, adult learning principles, and group facilitation are discussed. (SK)
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Reviews the four sections of the two-volume set, "International Handbook of Mathematics Education," with specific comments on various chapters contained therein. Suggests that this handbook be used as a general resource for specific topics. (AIM)
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Illustrates how the genesis and development of complex numbers can be explained by and supports a fallibilist model of trials and tests. Discusses the educational implications of this quasi-experimental approach. Contains 33 references. (DDR)
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Argues that the framework of sociologists extends commonly used analytical frameworks in socioscientific research in education. Foregrounds the social construction of knowledge and highlights the nature of knowledge production. (DDR)
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Presents an executive summary of a white paper prepared for the U.S. Secretary of Education. Provides information about the mathematics and science courses that students take in middle school and high school and their effects on student achievement. (ASK)
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Ascertains what people notice in the environment during hikes and whether this could influence environmental education. Identifies four themes: (1) the natural and physical environment; (2) trail aspects; (3) each hiker's physical and psychological preparedness and cognitive development; and (4) social aspects. (DDR)
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Interprets student-teachers' responses to open-ended interview probes concerning the relationship of humans to the nonhuman natural world. Supports the argument for incorporating students' ecophilosophies into instruction in environmental education. Contains 24 references. (DDR)
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Interdisciplinary courses are needed to illuminate the meaningful relationship of science to other subjects. Discusses the nature of the geology curriculum and how it is interdisciplinary by nature. Contains 19 references. (DDR)