Education & Pedagogy

Describes teacher professional development in Sweden, highlighting organization of the Swedish educational system, the 1977 Higher Education Act, the 1988 teacher education program, inservice teacher education, and current professional development issues (teacher accountability, teacher career structure, teacher work culture, teacher view of student prior knowledge, teacher resource centers, educational quality, and the role of educational research). (SM)

Uses "U.S. News and World Report" Web site data to investigate sources of education school prestige, examining rank of the college or university in which it is located, education school rank, and rank of different programs within the education school. Results highlight the strong relationship between status of the social/philosophical foundations program and overall status of its education school. (SM)

Describes a program evaluation of the Rouge Education Project (REP), a school-based environmental education program that uses water monitoring, telecommunications, and student actions to improve water quality. Reports that results indicated that the REP met its goals of increasing awareness and concern about the Rouge River and developing a supportive curriculum in science classrooms. (Author/MM)

Provides national data on occupational program offerings, the use of skill competencies, and other occupational program characteristics in public secondary schools and less-than-4-year postsecondary institutions. Data are from surveys conducted through the Fast Response Survey System and the Postsecondary Education Quick Information System. (Author/SLD)

Presents the history of Seventh-day Adventist education, examining: its founding in 1872; the closing of Battle Creek College, development of ministerial institutes, and creation of Avondale College in the late 1800s; the church-school movement; the drive to worldwide mission; founder Ellen White's educational philosophy; the move toward accreditation; and the balancing of Adventist education. (SM)

Explores the status of environmental education in China through studying the promotion of environmental education in primary schools in Shanghai, the largest city in China. Conducts a survey to understand primary teachers' receptivity to implementing environmental education, the extent of its implementation, and the ways in which it is being implemented. (Contains 27 references.) (YDS)

Compares the goals and premises of multicultural education and liberation theology, reviewing: the context in which they arose, subsequently developed goals, how the process of knowledge construction informs both fields, and the critical role it plays in developing participants' activities. Examines connections between the two fields and what aspects of multicultural education can incorporate from liberation theology. (SM)

Examines the relationship between education and globalization through the lenses of feminist theories, discussing the consequences of globalization for gender equity work in education. The paper argues that the restructuring of the government that flows from the neoliberal political response to globalization presents dangerous opportunities for feminist agendas in education. (SM)

Discusses the use of rubrics in one preservice secondary science teacher methods course. Defines the term 'rubric' and provides a rationale for using rubrics. Discusses how rubrics were used in one science methods course and concludes with comments about the possible benefits and detriments of using rubrics in science education courses. (SAH)

Discusses if there is a theoretical framework for a life-centered curriculum within art education history, problems that may occur when a life-centered curriculum is used, instructional approaches for a curriculum centered on life issues, and introducing art education students to using life issues in the curriculum. (CMK)

Describes a classroom experiment in which students see how competitive markets underproduce in the presence of a positive externality. States that this experiment is used in a principles of economics course to introduce the idea of market failure. Explains that participants take the role of buyers of education, sellers of education, or interested bystanders. (CMK)

States that brain research may be too immature to use it as the only rationale for early music education. Proposes integrated instruction for music education and addresses the need for teacher preparation in early childhood music education. Discusses future collaborations providing three examples of models of childhood music collaborations and community partnerships. (CMK)

Defines equality of education in three areas: 1) by the degree of integration of school systems; 2) by a comparison of material resources and assets in education; and 3) by the effects of schooling as measured by the mean scores of groups on standardized tests. Available from: College of Education, 107 Quadrangle, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011. (Author/JR)

The VD education course at the University of the Pacific has proven valuable in preparing pharmacy students for their role as community health educators. A valuable feature is the requirement that students make several presentations to peer groups in the surrounding community. (Author/LBH)

Counselor education departments are housed in colleges of education and appear to perceive their role and responsibility as including the education of teachers. A substantial majority responding to this survey are actively involved in providing learning experiences for teachers other than counselors and anticipate an increase in such involvement. (Author)