Education & Pedagogy

Contrasts teacher educators' desires to change student teachers' beliefs and values with their need to foster professional autonomy. Suggests that there exists an unrecognized 'indoctrination dilemma' inherent in preservice teacher education and concludes by pointing to the need for teacher educators to re-examine their intentions. (Contains 29 references.) (KS)

Discusses how information technology is creating a new kind of learning environment. Highlights include: the changing demand for education; distance education; new engagement with industry; a "click-and-mortar" learning environment; a new teaching/learning paradigm; new institutional partnerships; new forms of developing and sharing content; and implications for university practices. (AEF)

In-depth interviews with nine adults over 50 in a socially disadvantaged area explored their reactions to British government policy on the role of adult education. Government emphasis on vocational relevance and economic motives for lifelong learning did not correlate with their needs, interests, or motivations. Respondents tended toward intrinsic enjoyment of learning. (Contains 30 references.) (SK)

Examines technopositivism as a marketed ideology and follows the marketing strategies that appropriate and redefine educational goals and problems, exploring the alleged link between constructivism and technology, considering how teacher education and standard-setting bodies perpetuate this contestable association, and suggesting some deliberately critical questions that can be legitimated only if posed by teacher educators. (SM)

Argues that during German unification reform structures and ideas were not forced on the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Notes that a divided secondary school structure replaced the GDR unified school, but that was by request. Reveals that the East German's well-developed, pre-school education and childcare system was copied by West Germany. (CAJ)

Analyzes higher education among the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel. Traces the main trends since the establishment of the state of Israel and examines the principal factors that have retarded the access of Arabs to higher education. Explores the relationship between higher education and cultural dominance and the prospects for multiculturalism in Israeli academic institutes. (EV)

Current attempts in industrialised countries to regulate teacher education in increasingly prescriptive ways raise profound social, ethical and pedagogical issues. This paper looks at the challenge such prescriptions pose and suggests that such regulation serves the democratic state less well than a more autonomous form of education. The implications of this alternative for teacher education are explored.

Discusses teacher education in Poland in relation to current ongoing reform of the educational system and looks at issues resulting from the political transformation that has occurred. The article identifies in which of the four quadrants of the scenario model (individualism, pragmatism, idealism, and social cohesion) the current Polish education system can be placed. (SM)

Asserts that scenarios are powerful tools for creating new perspectives on the future of teacher education, and for stimulating reflection, creativity, and imagination. Scenarios can be helpful both for deciding on institutional or (inter)national policies on teacher education and for facilitating individual learning processes of teacher educators and organizational learning processes. The methodology used at a 2002 Association for Teacher Education in Europe conference for developing scenarios is presented. (SM)

This article describes strategies for implementing comic strips into physical education instruction and provides ideas on how to locate relevant materials. The author suggests that, rather than disregard comic strips as a silly form of artistic expression within the popular culture, physical education should consider embracing the medium as a way to promote learning and positive attitudes within their physical education classes.

In the 21st century, Americans find themselves living in an increasingly interconnected world in which the marketplace is global and in which peace and stability require greater knowledge of different regions, cultures, and languages. In this article, the authors call on all education stakeholders to help internationalize our K-12 schools.

This essay asks and answers ten questions that the author believes can serve as a primer or heuristic for educators who are considering character education as a meaningful part of their pedagogical objectives in both the university core curriculum and specific disciplines. All of the questions and answers are premised around the key assertion that the essential element of character education is the inculcation of intellectual or epistemic virtues.

Using an institutional-structural model of inquiry, this study identified the degree to which ethics education exists in 173 Christian colleges and universities. The results indicated almost all students receive some form of ethics education. However, only one-third of these institutions require an ethics course within their general education requirements.

Career and technical education, often referred to as vocational education, has shifted its focus in the past 85 years from preparing students for work right after high school to preparing them to continue their education throughout their lifetime to keep up with changes in the workplace. This article provides resources for CTE educators to follow current legislation, explore best practices, and discover rich collections of lesson plans.

In this article, the author argues that the provisions in the White Paper and the Education and Inspections Bill mean the end of a coherent system of state education, locally administered. The education proposals are clearly part of the Government's ongoing transformation of the public sector. It is argued that the Government's education agenda is all about selection, segregation, fragmentation and privatisation.