Education & Pedagogy

Discusses the forces driving increasing environmental problems, why these problems defy easy solution, and the role of experiential education in natural resource management issues. Discusses adaptations of experiential programming to lessen impacts on natural environments and to promote proenvironmental behaviors through awareness building, attitude formation, and empowerment. Contains 29 references. (TD)

This paper introduces this journal issue on the Network for Innovative Colleges of Education, which was originally created to allow five deans to meet periodically to support one another but which quickly grew to support other key faculty. The colleagues all contributed to restructuring each of the five colleges. (SM)

The new report of the Holmes Group, "Tomorrow's Schools of Education," is a simplistic attack on university-based schools of education and calls for their radical transformation and the adoption of one set of standards. It is argued that schools of education can develop individual approaches to future challenges. (SLD)

A reflective conversation between 2 cooperative education students identifies 10 qualities a university education should cultivate: broad knowledge base, creative and critical thinking skills, adaptiveness, comfort with ambiguity, flexibility, communicative competence, collaboration and teamwork skills, multiple perspectives, self-directed learning, and the ability to transfer learning into action. (SK)

Preservice special educators were introduced to computer-aided instruction and technology in their classes. In some cases, technology was discussed or demonstrated, while in others, students completed projects using computers. Pretesting and posttesting indicated that participation improved students' attitudes toward using computers in the classroom. (SM)

Preservice teachers in an elementary physical education (PE) class were asked to recall their favorite and least favorite elementary PE experiences and discuss how to improve them. Most students had some positive feelings toward PE, but there were several concerns about specific activities and implementation. (SM)

Discusses community and morality in an international context, recommending a transnational ethic grounded in international custom and agreement and noting that the Nuremberg Obligation provides a foundation for such an ethic. The paper maintains that this ethic provides the moral foundation for a civic education cognizant of global interdependence. (SM)

Surveyed undergraduate early childhood course students to determine motivation, career goals, and perceptions of early childhood professionals and their programs. Found that understanding student beliefs and working to broaden perspectives and exposure to real-life situations were important for preservice teacher education programs. (SD)

Challenges Mahner and Bunge's claim about a historical endemic conflict between science and religion. Argues that an awareness of different types of knowledge enables a fuller perspective in which science, religion, art, music, and human values are all compatible. Discusses ways in which science education and religious education can be taught to their mutual benefit. Contains 30 references. (Author/JRH)

Describes teacher-librarianship programs at eight Canadian Universities that offer on-campus and/or distance education courses. For each university there is a description of the university, the university's programs, on-campus and/or distance education teacher-librarianship courses, and contact information for teacher-librarianship courses and programs. (JMV)

Proposes an integration of critical theory and humanistic education. Strengths and limitations of each are discussed, and a model for liberatory education is proposed. The model is illustrated with an example from a fifth grade classroom. Further dialogue among humanistic educators and critical theorists is recommended. (Author/VM)

This comparison of teacher education in China and the United States covers national policies, attitudes toward the teaching profession, and teacher education reform, and suggests that U.S. educators should be more interested in what other countries are doing in the teacher education field. (CB)

Describes how triglossia in Nigerian education lies in the complementary distribution of languages by functions, with the languages of home, community, and school corresponding roughly to the affective, conative, and cognitive psychological categories. Provides a triglottic model which describes actual function of language in education in Nigeria. (NEC)

Summarizes the report of a task force appointed by the Board of Directors of the American Society for Engineering Education. Includes the task forces reasoning and its recommendations for a series of actions that will make the educational system better able to cope with the environment in which engineers practice. (CW)

Description of Atenea, the Spanish National Project for Computers in Education, focuses on the use of computer simulation and modeling in elementary and secondary education. Highlights include system dynamics, training courses for teachers, a microcomputer-based software package called System Dynamics Simulator for Education (SDSE), and a list of ready-made models. (LRW)