Education & Pedagogy

The Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, at Chemeketa Community College (Salem, Oregon), develops college curricula in natural resources management encompassing Native American understandings of relations between humans and their environment; organizes hands-on conservation programs for tribal youth; and sponsors conferences and seminars where educators share holistic and inclusive teaching methodologies. (SV)

Interactive distance-education (n=226) and face-to-face (n=129) continuing education workshops for health care and education professionals on sports nutrition were evaluated immediately and after 6 months. The well-designed distance-education format was as effective and acceptable as face to face and increased sports nutrition knowledge. (SK)

Looks at education and training at a variety of international corporations and universities. Includes articles on apprenticeships, college placement programs, Internet recruitment, training for dropouts, teacher placement programs, university partnerships, self-directed learning, management training, leadership development, and computer-based training. (JOW)

Examines Nietzsche's rejection of mass education, arguing that it was based on his desire for education to be more self- reformulative than he thought possible, and concluding that education in schools is beneficial because it can foster radical forms of selfhood. This process can begin by listening to Nietzsche's philosophy while ignoring his claims about the detriments of mass education. (SM)

Argues that peace education is actually part of the reality it attempts to change, noting problems in distinguishing between peace and violence, and arguing that justifications common in discussions of peace education serve certain acts of violence, and peace education is itself a manifestation of such violence. The paper examines possibilities for an alternative to current trends in peace education. (SM)

Five trends have influenced professional continuing education since 1980: (1) more workplace provision than any other kind; (2) more distance education; (3) increased university-workplace collaborations; (4) increased corporatization; and (5) more regulation of professional practice. Issues include updating knowledge versus improving practice, learning versus political-economic agendas, and turfism versus collaboration. (Contains 50 references.) (SK)

Looks at the United Kingdom's recent Funding Council-led attempts to streamline external accountability in higher education, then uses this as a platform for determining the criteria which an external accountability regime in higher education should meet. Outlines a new, streamlined system under the aegis of a new single accountability body provisionally entitled The Higher Education Audit Commission. (EV)

Interviews with 18 women enrolled in postsecondary education used a framework of misogyny to reinterpret barriers to their participation Resulting themes included women's role in maintaining the home as sanctuary, women needing constraint, and men's role as suppressors. Results suggest how a theory based in misogyny can explain obstacles to women's participation in higher education. (Contains 73 references.) (SK)

Presents six ERIC research abstracts that focus on: open and distance learning in pre-school teaching education; benchmarks for success in Internet-based distance education; longitudinal data on utilizing the Internet to supplement classroom instruction; assessing the effectiveness of Web-based instruction to meet workforce development needs; and new horizons in distance education. (AEF)

Explores how the growing demand for higher education can be met through efforts such as transnational education and how accreditation standards and groups that uphold them must adapt while ensuring that realistic global accreditation benchmarks and values are maintained. Describes how organizations such as the Global Alliance for Transnational Education (GATE) provides a prototype for achieving such standards. (EV)

Describes a survey of academic business librarians that determined their level of business education, and a survey of business information course instructors in library schools that determined areas of business considered important in their courses. Suggests partnerships between schools of business and schools of library and information science to improve education. (Author/LRW)

This article discusses the role of secondary level vocational-technical education as a logical approach to dropout prevention among students with disabilities or other special needs. It urges transitional planning teams to consider students' needs of services, agency providers, and community and labor market factors. (Contains references.) (DB)

Discussion of distance education in higher education focuses on how to avoid the trade-off between quality and quantity. Topics include the mediation process, involving the relationship between the instructor and the student; customized styles of education; the history of correspondence education; and the need for mediation to be design-driven rather than response-driven. (LRW)

Examines government higher education policy and Japanese higher education reform in the globalization and post-massification eras. Explores the effects of market mechanisms on Japanese higher education policy, the kinds of phenomena that have emerged in this period, and the impact of the government policy shift on Japanese higher education. (EV)

Describes four Australian initiatives that incorporate nontraditional approaches to education: (1) multiple and flexible pathways; (2) virtual schools; (3) workplace-based learning convergence; and (4) community of knowledge builders. Asserts that the particulars of these four initiatives can offer important points to the discussion about broader issues concerning nontraditional learning. (SD)