New graduate advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) face multiple challenges when entering an autonomous practice, including challenges acquiring clinical competency, gaining clinical knowledge regarding their specialty area, and expanding their clinical skills to perform the new job effectively. Some of this clinical knowledge and exposure…

The use of scuba diving as a recreational activity within traditional university instructional programs has been well established. Departments focusing on kinesiology, physical education, or exercise science have often provided scuba diving lessons as part of their activity-based course offerings. However, few departments have developed an…

This article supports the notion of high quality clinical teacher preparation models and lays out an argument for investing in professional education that is organized around more coherent systems for cultivating clinical practice. This article outlines the creation and implementation of a clinically-based teacher preparation program. Project…

This paper analyses two pedagogical case studies (PCS) from a multidisciplinary perspective to highlight the problems of theoretical knowledge in tertiary physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes, school-based physical education (PE) practice and continuous professional learning (CPL) in PE. We argue that a critical view of tertiary…

THIS REPORT BROUGHT TOGETHER FIVE PAPERS BY VARIOUS NATIONALLY KNOWN LEADERS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PUBLICATION WAS TO REVIEW MAJOR CAREER PATHS IN THE EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FIELD. THE REPORT COVERED DEGREES OF DIFFERENCES WHICH EXIST CURRENTLY AS WELL AS THE COMMONALITY OF LEARNING REQUIREMENTS REPRESENTED AMONG THE…

The Architecture Study Planning Group (ASPG) makes 62 recommendations for architecture education in Ontario's universities. Based on these recommendations, the Council of Ontario Universities makes several observations about the state of the discipline: that (1) architecture programs are basically sound, but would benefit from greater…

Thirteen programs were selected in 1987 by the Division of Personnel Preparation of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, to develop programs for the preparation of transition personnel to work with youth with handicaps. This monograph is a compilation of the competencies for transition specialists identified by the 13…

The three broad goals of career education--learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living--should be integrated into a lifelong educational process for the prime purpose of assisting every individual to become a fully capacitated, self-motivated, self-fulfilled, contributing member of society. The "guidelines" consider the role…

Forty-two individuals, comprising teams of three people from 14 states, attended a conference planned to: (1) assist vocational leaders in developing the intent, nature, and possible structure(s) of vocational curriculums at different levels, (2) cause participants to understand implications and provisions current legislation has for professional…

Specialization has become necessary in certain kinds of pharmaceutical practice, and colleges are developing curricula, faculties, and programs to respond. However, specialization also carries risks. Institutions must define their capabilities, resist encouraging students to specialize too early, provide adequate generalist education first, and…

A program was developed at a local college to provide directors of child care centers, Head Start programs, nursery schools, and school-based early childhood programs with formal training in administration, supervision, and program development to help them better manage their programs. The program was the result of a collaborative effort by…

American dental schools were surveyed to determine the state of development of programs in medical emergencies in the dental curriculum. Results show that programs for teaching the diagnosis and management of medical emergencies are seriously underdeveloped in dental schools. (MLW)

Considerable attention is given to the ratios of time for general education, professional education, and specialized (Industrial Technology) education in teacher education curriculums. (GB)

A discussion of undergraduate social work programs in historically black colleges and universities stresses their importance, examines their value in preparing students for culturally competent practice and developing more effective professional responses to problems of black Americans, and offers suggestions for advancing the profession's efforts…

Nursing literature from 1893-1923 is reviewed for insights into what nurse educators believed to be the role of liberal education in the nursing profession, the anticipated effects of liberal education on nursing, and the relationship of the articulation of these beliefs to the development of collegiate-level nursing programs. (MSE)