Accelerating threats to a sustainable relationship between economic growth and the capacity of the global social-ecological system to support it require that the implications of competitiveness be reassessed. Today, the capacities that underlie economic competitiveness must also be brought to bear on policy and pedagogy to prepare the coming…

In this article, the author states his belief that community based learning among adults can be a powerful force for encouraging personal development and for strengthening democracy in this multicultural, globally interdependent, battered world. To do so, however, it needs to pervade all the curricula, degree programs, learning contracts, and…

Proposes an interactive learning and teaching mode to realize education's potential role in transforming utopian dreams of health care, education, and social security for everyone within a political economy that respects human dignity and freedom into realities. Enumerates the themes, stages, and methods of such a pedagogical project. (DMM)

In global education programs, emphasis on commonalties shared by all peoples and the understanding and appreciation of differences within various cultures and subcultures may provide strong rationales for those who wish to teach art in a social context. Global education should not be viewed as a discipline with particular content or subject…

The project group "Preparedness for Peace" carries on research and development work on peace education and related aspects of the internationalization of school teaching. This miniprint lists reports and miniprints from this work published during the years 1990-1992. The list also includes reports and miniprints related to the work of…

This pamphlet offers information on high school dropouts and the role of vocational education in dropout prevention. References are provided for each section. Characteristics of dropouts, reasons for dropping out, and 12 factors that contribute to retention in high school are listed. Indicators from research are cited that show that vocational…

County school superintendents' thoughts on education in 1845, drawn from the New York State superintendent's annual report and analyzed in this article, provide an enriching historical perspective for today's administrator. (MCG)

This booklet is designed to help educators plan and implement language and literacy programs and related professional development opportunities for elementary school educators. A primary focus of the document is on the tensions that exist between recent local, state, and national initiatives to improve the quality of schooling and current…

Differentiates values from facts, concepts, theories, and processes. Argues that general education courses fail to teach values effectively. Describes ways of teaching values (i.e., direct indoctrination, rationalized indoctrination, delineated options, and values clarification), and urges teachers to state criteria for value judgments in…

This document examines the restructuring of local schools and how restructuring can involve students with disabilities and the special education programs that serve them. The document is designed to create awareness of the issues related to restructuring and programs for students with disabilities and puts forth options for reconsidering and…

If education is to be truly successful in preparing young people for the global realities of the next century, teachers must utilize methods and materials attuned to the imperatives of the future rather than to the needs of the past. New paradigms of learning must reflect international and multicultural dimensions of education and of life in…

Students in higher education are faced with rapidly changing societal conditions. As the nature and structure of the workplace and the family have changed, the specific knowledge and skills people need for the future have become less predictable. Teachers can address these changing conditions by applying cognitive theory to learning and…

Describes five approaches to multicultural education and relates them to art education. Discusses the relationships among various multicultural art education projects and their association with social reconstructionism. Outlines their interrelationship with curriculum design, teaching methods, content, goals, and objectives. (CFR)

This speech presents a case for "joining hands" as the educational theme of the 1980s. In "joining hands" with their students, schools need to abandon assembly-line models of instruction in order to adopt learning and teaching styles that nurture students' inner potential and provide for individual differences of both teachers…

Details a series of service learning projects conducted by a California middle school social studies class. Creative, inexpensive, and substantive, the projects included writing to Manuel Noreiga in prison, creating a feed-the-homeless garden, and translating city documents into other languages. (MJP)