Education & Pedagogy

Pharmaceutical education and pharmaceutical practice began to diverge in the early twentieth century for socioeconomic reasons and have since grown along separate paths. The movement toward clinical pharmacy, emerging about 1970, may reunite the two but it first faces new challenges. (MSE)

Discusses the differences between art programs and art education programs. Arts education complements and reinforces learning in other curriculum areas. Good arts education can help develop positive attitudes in students, encourage their desire to learn, and improve student academic performance. Includes a sidebar with a Music Lesson Design. (MD)

Reviews state policies regulating private education and home instruction that limit parental choice in education. Criticizes judicial response to parental challenges, suggesting that parental interests have been underprotected and state interests have been overprotected. Suggests reasonable bases for state intervention. (FMW)

Includes honors degree courses; special entry requirements; course structure; courses regularly available; notes; and how to obtain further information on 42 universities, 28 polytechnics, 12 colleges of technology, and 13 colleges of education in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Some schools have advertisements listing additional information. (RT)

The ways that teacher education is distinctly different from the other activities of higher education and is subject to greater external management and control are explored. The case is made that coercive external intervention damages quality and that the profession has the capacity for quality control. (Author/MT)

Argues that social science areas of anthropology and sociology should be incorporated into theory of discipline-based art education (DBAE). Questions recent art-related theory that focuses only on DBAE. Urges sociology of art along with traditional disciplines of DBAE to become more diverse in order to enjoy art to its fullest. (BR)

A continuing education program implemented at the University of Illinois in Chicago is described. The goals of the program were: to provide a comprehensive, long-term approach to continuing education; to emphasize the role of participants in curriculum development; and to use learning strategies that maximize clinical participation. (MLW)

An overview of special education services in five Western European countries (Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland) is presented. The countries are all currently undergoing reexamination of existing practices, though extensive variations exist between and within each country. (Author/DB)

Lists commonly held but inaccurate "myths" about teachers and education in the eastern and western United States. Gives a perspective on tools that communication has to offer teachers; concepts and contexts that can be researched and developed; and a cooperative responsibility that can be initiated with colleagues in education. (SR)

Provides an overview of music learning in the People's Republic of China, focusing on three basic types of schools: public schools, target schools, and fine arts schools. Also looks at teacher training and at the long-range sociological implications for music education in China. (LS)

Some issues raised by this review of recent literature on crisis and change in higher education are whether liberal education will survive, whether systemic changes will benefit adult learners, how labor-intensive higher education can survive in a technological era, and whether access for working-class and other underserved groups will be improved. (SK)

This article provides a brief introduction to the RATE Project. The project seeks to gather accurate information about teacher education, establish trend lines and document changes, study the structures and processes involved in teacher education, and obtain reliable information upon which program development and change initiatives can be based. (IAH)

This article reviews the current status of research on technology in teacher training, identifies factors that are restricting experimentation with technologies, presents a model for selecting and applying technology to program design, and addresses critical questions to be answered. (IAH)

This article reports on research which shows how cluster analysis of resource and productivity data from public university teacher education programs was used to classify programs into peer groups. Deans can use such an analysis in preparing a rationale for getting a fair share of their university's resources. (IAH)

Presents a dialog in five articles that address the issue of whether distance education is a discipline in its own right, primarily based on a 1986 article by Holmberg. Topics discussed include adult education; adult learning; conceptual models; and the roles of theory and research. (LRW)