Education & Pedagogy

Investigates music teachers' everyday conceptions of musicality through (1) a pilot study involving music teachers in higher education and (2) interviews with teachers in music teacher education and in compulsory school. Finds in the pilot the categories of musical achievement, musical experience, and musical communication, while the interviews posited absolute (biological) and relative (learned) categories of musicality. (CMK)

An evaluation was conducted to measure the impact of a curriculum implemented through the Jordan Water Conservation Education Project. Examines the effect of recommending water conservation at the household level and the impact of using interactive teaching methods to promote conservation behaviors among students and their families. (Author/SAH)

Reviews the history of distance education in South Dakota. Highlights include interactive videoconferencing on the Digital Dakota Network (DDN); four video consortiums for K-12 schools; the Rural Development Telecommunications Network; the Electronic University Consortium; higher Education opportunities via the Internet, satellites, videocassettes, public television, and correspondence; and technology and human infrastructures. (LRW)

Used the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, a nationally representative longitudinal data set, to explore student's routes to higher education. Found several complex individual and family-related factors influencing continuance in school and subsequent entry into higher education. For example, there is an important interaction between parental education and the type of school attended by the student. (EV)

This article provides an overview of family systems theory, with a particular focus on the roles adapted by children in dysfunctional families. In addition, analyses of narratives about dysfunctional families, written by 125 preservice teachers, provide implications for new directions in teacher education. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Considers need for disability-aware education for everyone with structural and curricular implications. Argues that to move toward a more ethical educational system, institutional discrimination must be dismantled. Discusses moral education of the disabled. Discusses recognition of alternative perspectives issues, building on life experience and development of self-confidence and self-esteem. (CAJ)

Distinguishes social capital from societal cohesion. Argues that education acts in different ways for each. Develops a distributional model showing the relationship between equality of educational outcomes and various measures of social cohesion. Discusses theories explaining country trends and variations in educational inequality and social inheritance in education. (CAJ)

Examines the tensions among government professionalization agendas for teaching and teacher education and the creation of conditions in schools and faculties of education where professionalism is diminished or underminded. Considers the tensions teacher educators experience as they manage competing definitions of professionalism within the university and school contexts. (CAJ)

Argues that globalization is undermining the state. Calls for a reconsideration of the concept of citizenship. Points out that adult education has traditionally stood outside the institutionalized education sector and has served a more democratic and radical function. Claims that as adult education becomes institutionalized it will lose this function. (CAJ)

Cooperation in higher education between the Arab world and Europe and America must be pushed in the following main directions: (1) efforts to stem and reverse the brain drain; (2) development of non-conventional forms of higher education; (3) development of research programs and infrastructure; and (4) promotion and use of information and communications technologies in higher education. (EV)

Briefly traces the history of the European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) since its founding in 1972 and the involvement of the author in its activities, as of the 1980s, as a member of its advisory committee. Further evokes the involvement of UNESCO itself in education, particularly higher education, an involvement with roots stretching back to League of Nations days. (EV)

Investigated the current state of marketing, marketing research, and planning practices at four-year higher education institutions. Builds upon previous studies by Blackburn (1979) and Goldgehn (1982 and 1989). Determined whether the use and apparent understanding of marketing and its attendant activities by admissions and enrollment management administrators has changed over the last decade, and whether differences in practice exist among various higher education segments. (EV)

Asserts that conservatives in the U.S Supreme Court failed to see that affirmative action in higher education is an important and constitutionally protected institutional liberty, suggesting that Grutter v. Bollinger was correctly decided, and Gratz v. Bollinger was a mistake (but not a disaster). Suggests that such difficult issues should not be decided by federal judges. (SM)

Discusses staff development using the scenario as a strategic tool within one teacher education program. The scenario tool provided a way to look at future developments in teacher education and reflect on the learning processes of staff members. This method drew upon the zone of proximal development to create new knowledge about the future. Staff members confirmed these effects. (SM)

Finds a substantial level of employer support for employees participation in vocational education. Argues this support is as closely associated with the skills that employers want to enhance as it is to characteristics of either employees or jobs. Provides further evidence of the importance of subbacalaureate vocational degrees. (CAJ)