Education & Pedagogy

Areas in which pharmacy educators and practitioners can collaborate to hasten pharmacy curriculum development are outlined, including: state and regional centers for operationalizing the pharmaceutical care concept; training, formal resource programs for pharmacists; research advisory boards; public education; links with medical community; pharmaceutical industry education; continuing education; links with managed care; clinical experience; pharmacy admission; and long-range planning. (MSE)

Karen Gayton Swisher (Sioux), chair of teacher education at Haskell Indian Nations University (Kansas), discusses the history of American Indian education, its effects on Indian families and cultures, overcoming stereotypes, how teachers can teach Indian children more effectively, the importance of Indian interpretations of Indian education and teaching practices, and what teachers need to understand about Indian cultures. (TD)

Discusses the legal history of special education. The exclusion of students with disabilities and the early efforts to ensure a free appropriate education for students with disabilities are examined up to and including the enactment of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997. (Author/CR)

Explains that a growing cadre of progressive K-12 educators believes that sustainability education has a central role in developing in students a sense of responsibility for the future. Describes transformations appearing in classrooms that have adopted sustainability education as a context for systemic reform efforts, and explores how the results of this will affect the shape of higher education. (EV)

Reviews patterns of teacher education in Malaysia, highlighting current problems and challenges, discussing recent reforms and policy initiatives in the domain of teacher education, and introducing three articles that focus on: teacher education for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in Malaysia, training of school counselors in Malaysia, and the training and professional development of school principals in Malaysia. (SM)

This study surveyed 156 special education teachers in South Carolina after their first year of teaching. Teachers reported they received less assistance than needed in all areas, especially in learning special education policies, procedures, and paperwork; materials and resources; and curriculum and instruction. They reported receiving the most assistance from other special education teachers. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)

Analyzes the return to education of liberalization of the labor market in Vietnam. Finds, for example, that private rate of return to schooling is greater for primary education than for either secondary or higher education. Overall, estimated returns to schooling in Vietnam are low compared with those for other developing countries. (Contains 6 tables and 23 references.) (PKP)

Provides a detailed evaluation of a recent initiative in the field of drug education through Theatre in Education (TIE) carried out by a local education authority in England. Explains that in this project, students from secondary schools devised and performed their own TIE pieces for local primary school children. Discusses project's rationale and its implementation. Offers a detailed evaluation of its achievements, and an analysis of its more problematic features. (PM)

Focuses on issues of cultural identity and educational development in emergence of a new institute of teacher education in Hong Kong. Discusses demands placed upon it to support educational reforms after the return to China. Describes processes and ideas of developing a vision statement and the values chosen for the institute. (CAJ)

Describes development of the Oregon Quality Education model, an adequacy-funding model. Explores the rationale behind its development as well as the political and economic realities policymakers face in attempting to determine how much money Oregon's schools would need to meet state education reform goals and provide a quality education to all children.(Contains 2 tables and 39 references.) (Authors/PKP)

Discusses economic realities for liberal arts educators to consider: the knowledge economy requires skills learned through liberal education; despite advantages, liberal arts bachelor's degrees don't lead to the best entry-level jobs; when liberal education leads to graduate or professional school, success is guaranteed; and under-investment in liberal education is a case of market failure to recognize latent value. (EV)

Discusses promotion of multicultural child education and literacy learning. Focuses on identity building and language development. Analyzes Brazilian government's "National Curricular References for Child Education." Argues that predominance of a monocultural, cognitive-based approach to child education is detrimental to children whose cultural and linguistic patterns are different than the schools. (CAJ)

Examines changes in England's teacher education over the past 30 years, identifying key changes and relating them to the Association for Teacher Education in Europe's axes of idealism/pragmatism and individualism/social cohesion. These changes are also seen in the contexts of changes made in school and university education. Extracts from political speeches and examples of practice illustrate past and present policies and suggest future directions of education. (SM)

Every girl deserves a quality education and every country deserves gender equality. In December 2020, Global Partnership for Education (GPE) created the US $250 million Girls' Education Accelerator to transform girls' opportunities to go to school and learn. To secure funding, countries commit to ambitious action for gender equality by investing in girls' education. The grant is implemented alongside and tightly integrated with GPE's existing grants -- the system transformation grant and the Multiplier.

Arts Education Partnership (AEP) partner organizations work to promote high-quality arts learning opportunities that align with college, career and citizenship readiness goals. AEP Success Stories provide detailed information on programs with the potential to be replicated in communities across the country. This Success Story discusses Everyday Arts for Special Education, an arts-integrated program designed to strengthen student academic and behavioral Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals through social emotional learning, culturally responsive pedagogy, and inclusive and differentiated instruction.