Education & Pedagogy

Comments on the aspects of research and development work relating to environmental education within pre-service teacher education. Explores issues relating to assumptions about the effectiveness of work within pre-service courses. (Author/CCM)

Asserts that working through postmodern positions on language offers nursing different approaches to critical thinking and cultural competence, two components of multicultural education. Describes examples relevant to topics in nursing education. (SK)

The continuum ranging from preprofessional to continuing professional education requires coordination, responsiveness to learners, attention to the application of learning, and stakeholder support. As collaboration among providers, such as universities, professional associations, and employers increases, more research is needed. (SK)

Discusses diversity in science education in Europe. Provides a global overview of education in Europe and then presents two European models for global education for engineers and scientists that are becoming increasingly important components of their curricula. (Author/VWL)

Describes Public Issues Education, a term used in the Cooperative Education Service for a range of multiparty approaches for addressing public issues, from formal conflict resolution procedures to coalition-building and collaborative problem solving. (JOW)

Describes early approaches to teacher education in the Netherlands and the Wiskobas model for teacher education. Provides information on the Netherlands' national approach to training primary teachers. Contains 14 references. (Author/ASK)

Issues confronting the German dual system of vocational education and apprenticeship include financial restructuring and pressures for differentiation and flexibility. Continuing vocational training is facing problems of quality, access, and funding. (SK)

Half of business teachers in grades 6-12 (n=283) rated 11 skills as essential prerequisites for teacher internships. Teacher educators should design preservice education programs to ensure that teacher interns acquire these competencies. (SK)

Introduces three fanciful recommendations for improving teacher education. They include closing the largest teacher education programs, eliminating courses (which create fragmentation), and refusing to detach pedagogy from content. The paper discusses ways that it might be possible to accomplish such goals. (SM)

In the late 19th century, visionary leaders pursued liberal education for nurses, moving nursing education from hospitals to universities. The nursing professorate might never have developed had nursing education remained under the jurisdiction of hospitals. (SK)

Agricultural education college faculty (256 of 314) felt they lacked competence and confidence in using distance-education technologies. They believed the technology would enhance their teaching and technology use would change how they teach in future. (SK)

Data from 23 university international engineering programs found many variations in this emerging field. Many program providers consider internships an important enrichment experience. Most require foreign languages and offer cross-cultural training to prepare students for study abroad. (SK)

Delineates some of the important difficulties that the reform of chemical education faces in Europe. Focuses on student perceptions of chemistry, the chemistry curriculum, and teacher training. (DDR)

The University of Phoenix (UOP) is a for-profit university that accepts only students who are at least 23 years old and gainfully employed. UOP's brand of no-frills business education is tailored to working adults and represents a new model for postsecondary education. (JOW)

Recommends positioning counselor education more centrally within the general framework of an inclusive liberal education. Takes into account contemporary debates surrounding both higher education and the delivery of human services. The advantages for counselors and society are discussed. (EMK)