As an educator for thirty-four years, the author describes several great changes she has seen in the field of education since she started in the 1970s. The author gives advice to educators just beginning their careers. Old and new ways of receiving professional development are explained along with the limitations and benefits of these options.…

Disability support personnel within Australia include those who provide direct and daily care to people with intellectual disability (ID), largely in residential and day service contexts. Their roles and responsibilities are many, calling on far ranging skills. Yet, they come to these roles with levels of education that range from incomplete high…

If American young learners are to become effective participants in a democratic society, then social studies must be an essential part of the curriculum in each of the elementary years. The purpose of elementary school social studies is to enable students to understand, participate in, and make informed decisions about their world. Social studies…

Certificate programs are concentrated studies for career enhancement, often in response to increasing specialization and need for updating of job skills. Some institutions are developing creative and innovative curricula for evolving and emerging fields. (SK)

This article responds to Evans' (2002) framework for a research agenda for teacher development. The term teacher learning is introduced as the process by which novice teachers move towards expertise, and a distinction is made between teacher knowing and teacher identity. Cognitivism currently dominates considerations of teacher learning, but there…

States that more and more technical writers across the discipline are likely to become involved in designing and developing multimedia products in the future. Finds that this will require retooling current skills used in production of text-based information products. Presents an overview of the process of bringing a multimedia product to the point…

Draws parallels between the rush to professionalization and the process of psychoanalysis in the United States in earlier decades. Offers account of what is happening in terms of the sociology of the counseling profession and suggests that expert systems are being substituted for local knowledge. Considers and rejects argument that this process is…

Human resource practitioners must recognize the growing requirement for facilitating skills and processes, the diversity of preferred learning styles, and the importance of identifying learning potential. They must understand how barriers to effective learning can be identified, overcome, and facilitated by appropriate technology. (Author)

Interactive digital media, or video games, are a powerful new medium. They offer immersive experiences in which players solve problems. Players learn more than just facts--ways of seeing and understanding problems so that they "become" different kinds of people. "Serious games" coming from business strategy, advergaming, and entertainment gaming…

The author provides several ways that industrial educators can improve themselves and improve the profession. These include increasing one's knowledge, changing one's attitudes, increasing one's skills, changing one's habits, using motivation properly, knowing how to adjust attitudes, and setting clear goals. (CT)

The advantages, difficulties, and controversy concerning nurse educators' involvement in clinical practice as a means of maintaining skills, credibility, and effectiveness in the instructional setting are examined. (MSE)

Decrying the lack of professional standards, the author attempts to define an organizational development professional in terms of the personal traits, skills, and competencies needed. He outlines a learning sequence for skills development and presents a skills assessment scale for self-evaluation. (SK)

The author claims that excellence will return to the workplace when every organization, corporate and bureaucratic, and when academia and associations offer professional, technical, and skills training for their own members. Discusses the quest for professionalism, and why accountability should be considered an element of professionalism. (CT)

The deficit model, based on a prevailing orientation toward women in our culture, suggests that they are inferior, presumably as a consequence of genetics and/or socialization. Challenges this orientation, contending it pervades much of the decision making and substance in programs for training and development for women and leads to…

Four directors of corporate training answer the question "Should human resource development directors have a training background?" and then each presents a list of recommendations for trainers, involving such areas as internal consulting skills, business experience, sense of timing, the difference between training and teaching, and taking a…