Education & Pedagogy

To assist college business officers in developing a distance education approach, addresses four questions: (1) Why pay attention to distance education? (2) How might distance education be structured at your institution? (3) What role should you play in distance education? (4) What risk do you take by not becoming involved? (EV)

While graduates must be effective critical thinkers, they must do more than just think critically for its own sake. College coursework should encourage collaboration and invite the kind of sophisticated, cross-disciplinary, flexible perspectives necessary in the workplace. (MM)

Explores the Jeffersonian vision of legal education. Examines methods of training lawyers in colonial America, noting that colleges offered no such instruction. Considers Jefferson's vision of the role of education in sustaining a republican form of government and describes the implementation of his vision of legal education first at the college of William and Mary and then elsewhere. (EV)

Reviews vocational education and training provision in Ireland, including the impact of the European Social Fund. Describes the new Leaving Certificate Applied, which includes occupational preparation, vocational education, and general education. Discusses issues related to the certificate: partnership, fragmentation, inflexibility, and parity of esteem. (Contains 59 references.) (SK)

Report of a study on special-education leaders. Addresses the future demand for educational leaders in special education, the perception of quality and quantity of leaders available, what attracts and keeps administrators in leadership positions, and what factors discourage or deter candidates. (Contains 3 tables and 15 references.) (WFA)

Report of a study of principals' and teachers' perceptions of implementing multicultural education. The results are presented for four areas: (1) a multicultural education plan; (2) limitations and constraints of implementing multicultural education; (3) expectations of administrators' support; and (4) administrators' plans of support. (Contains 11 references.) (AUTHOR/WFA)

Nine theme articles on the role of the teacher in advising youth groups address the following: advising on the Web, positions taken by agriculture teachers regarding FFA and agricultural education, postsecondary associations, the challenges of advising, the benefits of advising, the future of agricultural education, and the experience of advising a vocational student organization. (JOW)

Traces the development of education in Nigeria for two migrant groups, nomadic pastoralists and migrant fishermen, and describes the current state of research on nomadic education in Nigeria. Suggests some concepts and research strategies that would engender greater understanding of nomadic education and promote international cooperation. (SLD)

Provides an overview of policies concerning civics education in Japan during the 50 years following World War II. Summarizes the problems in civics education, focusing on textbooks, teaching styles, and the marginalization of civics in the curriculum. Considers the future of Japanese civics education. (CMK)

Argues that, in industrialized societies, adolescents are not developmentally ready to make career decisions. Urges secondary vocational education to return to principles of manual training and use occupational contexts to improve academic skills and teach competencies identified by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. (Contains 14 references.) (SK)

Reviews the history of comparative adult education and the multiple pathways afforded by postmodernism and poststructuralism. Concludes that comparative adult education should avoid bipolar constructs and include exploration of the following: analysis, forces, power, genre, communication, interculturality, knowledge construction, evaluation, and ethics. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)

A study of the equalization effects of in-kind transfers of public education in Greece finds that results of in-kind transfers in primary and secondary education lead to a major decline in aggregate inequality, whereas the distributional impact of tertiary education is regressive. (Contains 30 references.) (PKP)

Australia's national training packages may result in poorer student learning outcomes and may threaten credit transfer between vocational education and training and higher education. The national training packages are not good models for other countries and the policy needs to be reviewed. (Contains 26 references.) (JOW)

A review of adult education in Australia in the context of changes in demography, workplaces, knowledge, and the role of the state finds that adult education has been reconfigured as adult learning and is a major postsecondary provider. Adult education is now more widely recognized, inclusive, better managed, and responsive to changing contexts. (SK)

Discusses the history, features, and ongoing development of the Data on Vocational Education (DOVE) system, which provides detailed information on vocational education at the national level. The DOVE system differs from the typical National Center for Education Statistics data collection effort because it is a "synthetic" system that collects data from pre-existing surveys. (Author/SLD)