Education & Pedagogy

A broad overview of agricultural education touches on several aspects. (AG)

Discusses the status of aviation aerospace education in Pennsylvania. Includes workshops, flight training, and aerospace education programs. (MLH)

Drawing on collective experience of over 200 years, four members of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame were panelists in a session at the 2010 National Outreach Scholarship Conference. As the panelists reflected on careers in the field of adult and continuing education, four sustaining themes emerged: commitment, pragmatism and political astuteness, ability to adapt, and inquisitiveness.

Describes the Delta Health Education Partnership, an interdisciplinary distance education program intended to recruit, educate, and retain interdisciplinary groups of primary care health practitioners to increase access to health care in medically underserved and health professional shortage areas of the lower Mississippi Delta. It spans six universities across four states. Primary health care students are taught using asynchronous technology. (SM)

Suggests a curriculum for rural and small-town schools that combines bilingual education in local languages (indigenous, heritage, or immigrant languages) with global, multicultural education. Discusses benefits to students and community, and ways that the model overcomes typical rural constraints of inflexible school organization; administrative and public resistance; and lack of bilingual teachers, materials, and funding. (Contains 71 references.) (SV)

During the late 1940s and much of the 1950s, attitudes towards outdoor education in Scotland were rooted in militaristic concerns with character building through adventure training and civic activities. During the late 1950s and the 1960s, the purposes of the field were seen as recreation, leisure education, personal and social development, and environmental awareness. (Contains 33 references.) (TD)

In adventure education, risk is important to achieving program objectives. An increased concern with legal liability and the concentration of media attention on negative outcomes have contributed to an increased social aversion to risk. Adventure education must establish that risk leads to personal growth and can be managed constructively in the education process. (Contains 42 references.) (TD)

Proposes the need for a scholarship on teacher education that emphasizes the unequal power relations between dominant Anglo research and policy establishment and the diverse, often disempowered communities being studied, suggesting the utility of key constructs like additive schooling and culturally relevant pedagogy to guide a refashioning of schools, teacher preparation programs, evaluation research on teacher quality, and education policy. (SM)

North Carolina high school physical education teachers and teacher educators have collaborated to implement the Physical Education Partnership for Sport Education (PEPSE), which recreates the learning environment with a focus on curricular revision and assessment. This article describes current conditions, the PEPSE project's solution, how the NASPE standards informed the project, and how the PEPSE project works. (SM)

Describes progressive preservice teacher education during the 1930s at the Bank Street College of Education, providing examples of teaching in courses on environment and language. The courses emphasized the student as a knower and constructor of knowledge and connected school and social context. The paper discusses characteristics of progressive teacher education at Bank Street and notes pedagogical aspects of that type of teaching (Contains references.) (SM)

Discusses the definition of content knowledge for physical education, suggesting that teacher educators have largely given up the historic content knowledge of the field, thus eliminating the possibility of developing a serious body of pedagogical content knowledge for teaching. The paper examines the root problem in defining pre-professional content, the consequences of retreating from sport performance, and the nature of knowledge in physical education. (SM)

As Canadian provinces cut funding for education, the shortfall is made up by parent fundraising, donations, or private partnerships. Equitable access to education is undermined because schools with better parent fundraisers, more effective principal wheeler-dealers, and more-advantaged populations have more resources, while disadvantaged children who need an enriched education the most are deprived. (TD)

A study in seven Quebec First Nations communities determined per-pupil expenditures on education, excess costs of special education, and unmet special needs; developed five funding formulas for special education; and estimated their potential impact on First Nations communities locally and across Canada. Total special education costs were high because of high incidence of special needs in reserve communities. (SV)