Education & Pedagogy

Interviews with 34 engineering education representatives indicated that traditional "sandwich" programs of year-long industry placement are changing. The present market-oriented policy environment provides few incentives to develop effective work experience programs or industry-education linkages. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

Exposing today's students to a balance of science and the outside world is critical. The outdoors provides a context for practical applications of science, exposing the relevance of science to everyday life. Outdoor education instills an awareness that the health of the environment is directly coupled with our own health, enabling us to make intelligent decisions on environmental issues. (TD)

Identifies strategies that can be used for the promotion of physical education programs, including: establish a high quality program; promote locally; project a consistent image; connect with families; publish newsletters; give presentations at schoolwide functions; communicate across disciplines; provide services to school staff and community; use the news media; attend school board meetings; connect with realtors; and go online. (SM)

Examines changing conceptions of globalization in education, highlighting new electronic information technologies that, rather than promoting homogeneity, are producing a stimulus for a politics of difference. Cyborgs and cyberspace are emerging as discourses of disunity and difference. The essay recommends a form of critical localism to challenge the assumed unity and coherence of education within a rapidly globalizing world. (SM)

Describes the Future Teachers' Research Program (FTRP), the several strategies that were employed for exploring its impact, and the results of those investigations. The program has been operating since 1990, offering the opportunity to explore how research experiences contribute to teacher preparation and whether that research experience enhances subsequent teaching. (SAH)

Describes how to include a parents' fitness night in fitness education courses in order to gain parents' support of comprehensive fitness education and fitness for life, outlining one such program that has been successfully employed in Texas junior high schools which has helped parents understand fitness programs and become more involved in their children's education in general. (SM)

School gardens can teach kids about cooperation, nature, science, creativity, and community service. Gardens also help teachers address students' diverse needs and interests. Tips for school gardeners include: make it easy to use, keep groups small, be inclusive, build partnerships, have clear rules, think year-round, have fun, and celebrate beauty. (TD)

Presents potential guidelines for conducting and reporting environmental education research using quantitative methods of inquiry that were developed during a 10-hour (1-1/2 day) workshop sponsored by the North American Commission on Environmental Education Research during the 1998 annual meeting of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). (Contains 38 references.) (Author/YDS)

The Dearing Report emphasized the idea of a 'learning society' as the new context of UK higher education, but conceived this on a model of adaptivity to economically- and technologically-driven change. While there are real shifts in social relations with which universities have to reckon, they can be understood on a much richer model of exploratory social intelligence. (Author/MM)

In 1948, the Palestinians were targeted and manipulated to strengthen and sustain the dominant Israeli power and reproduce white Israeli values. The education system promulgated this strategy. Only 5 percent of Palestinians in Israel attend college, since they are ineligible for state financial help. (MLH)

Shows that education change depends on level of policy formation and level of policy transformation and on what P. Bourdieu has termed the repertory of actual and virtual possibilities and relations of symbolic force within the base arrangements of a civilization. Discusses teacher education reform in the context of the Swedish Teacher Education Committee recommendations. (SLD)

Discusses Dewey's war on the dualism between academic and vocational education. Calls the present system of labeling "academic" and "vocational" students a "caste system," and recommends integrating vocational instruction with liberal arts education, career exploration studies, and career group counseling. (RT)

Knowledge of sexual behavior, modifying attitudes that block understanding of sexuality, and developing skills for the evaluation and management of sexual problems were the objectives of a sex education program for medical students at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. (Editor/LBH)

A competency-based direct practice curriculum for graduate social work education is described based on: (1) interpersonal behavioral control; (2) judgment and decision making; (3) contracting and goal setting; (4) selection and application of change method; and (5) assessment of outcomes. (Author/LBH)

Examining the critical change (also referred to as re-socialization) in adults which can be stimulated by appropriate education programs, the author discusses differing rationales of adult education programs for value and attitudinal change in New Zealand.