Education & Pedagogy

The reunification process in Germany and its effect on distance education policies and practices in the East provide an occasion to test the relevance of the Fordist framework. Discussion includes characteristics of a neo- or post-Fordist distance education system, the failure of Fordism as a theory of industrialized society, and the Fordism debate on distance education. (Author/AEF)

Outlines career education activities, one based on the organizational needs of career services, the other based on individual needs of career advisers. The case is considered for adopting educational research methods developed from the ethnographic research tradition to help career advisers meet challenges facing them in the development, delivery, and evaluation of career education in higher education. (FC)

A case study approach can help preservice teachers develop effective strategies for handling situations that arise as they teach diverse students in public schools. This article presents teaching hints for the case study approach, offering a sample scenario for a seventh-grade middle school physical education class. (SM)

Feminist and multicultural practices in public education can help achieve cultural inclusiveness. The paper examines multiple literacies and literacy learning in culturally diverse and gender fair schools, suggesting whole language programs, reader-response criticism, and feminism to expand the educational canon and ensure a public education representing the politics of inclusion. (SM)

A long-standing challenge for special education personnel is how to appropriately involve Spanish-dominant migrant parents in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process, especially in rural agriculturally based school districts. Twelve recommendations for the IEP process are presented related to parent rights, parent orientation to school procedures, comfortable atmosphere, interpreters, transportation, and child care. (TD)

Neoliberal and structural adjustment policies in Latin America have produced educational budget cuts that set higher education against primary/secondary education. Confronting this environment, a proposed project involving cooperation between Latin American and North American universities, popular education, community action, and alternative credit programs, would combine international resources with local knowledge and initiative and create conditions for sustainable development. (SV)

Deplores the current drive toward cost efficiency, restructuring, and vocationalization of colleges of education. Cultural studies offer an opportunity to redefine educational theory and practice and educate teachers and administrators to play a vital role in renewing civic life. Concerned with empowerment and the democratic process, cultural studies offer a transnational approach to literacy and learning. (18 endnotes) (MLH)

Development of a preservice teacher education program based on values shared by faculty and student representatives is illustrated by a two-day seminar of faculty and students at the University of Malta. Traditions in initial teacher education were reviewed and characteristics of the good teacher were identified and related to implicit values. Implications for course and curriculum development are drawn. (DB)

Presents strategies to enhance the use of technology by teacher education faculty. The strategies include the following: encourage creativity and peer coaching; support faculty in all ways; provide ongoing staff development; offer flexible technology choices; address faculty complaints; explain the relevance of educational technology; do not isolate educational technology; and apply lessons from higher education. (SM)

This case study examined the revision of a state university's elementary teacher education program, noting dilemmas arising during the university approval process related to faculty involvement, power and authority, incentives, and sacred cows such as academic freedom. Lessons learned about programmatic change within the culture of the university are presented. (SM)

Utilizes critical reaction to the book, "A Philosophy of Music Education," as a framing device to discuss feminist theory and music education philosophy. Maintains that critical criteria drawn from a specific political agenda, and applied to apolitical subjects, accomplishes little more than politicized rhetoric. (MJP)

Discusses the need for multicultural education training amongst preservice teachers in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Both countries contain large, ethnically diverse populations, often stigmatized by poverty and racial intolerance. Briefly reviews articles and research on the educationally disadvantaged in each country. (MJP)

Explores role of public education in democracy; addresses questions of who should be educated and which individuals have the right to a comprehensive education. Argues that every individual in a democratic society has the right to a comprehensive education, and that society itself will benefit from the contributions of well-educated citizenry. Therefore, educational programs must reach all students. (GR)

This paper argues that major curriculum revisions are needed in all dental schools, particularly to train dentists as oral physicians who can treat oral health in the context of overall physical health, as in other medical specialties. An Institute of Medicine report, "Dental Education at the Crossroads," is criticized as supporting a current, nondynamic culture of dental education. (MSE)

Virginia Commonwealth University's Master of Science program in health administration uses distance education techniques to facilitate professional education with limited facilities. The program has developed from a first-generation bulletin board conferencing system to an individualized "client-server" based program on the World Wide Web, accessed through the Internet. (Author/MSE)