Notes the importance of developing listening skills through direct instruction. Identifies specific listening skills and suggests how to teach them. Describes how both teachers and students can develop a listening skills curriculum. (MM)

This article focuses on the different interpretations of art reflected in six of the essays on art in educational research and teaching in this journal issue, the related views of knowledge that they imply, the tones and colors of the essay voices, and the ramifications for research, curriculum, and teaching that can be drawn from this work. (JB)

Offers guidance on integrating peace studies into the secondary school geography curriculum. Defines negative and positive peace, welfare geography and radical geography, and positive peace through empowerment. Presents an education for peace learning activity focusing on land rights for Australia's aboriginal people. Suggests other appropriate…

Describes the development of, and examines the assumptions behind, Frank Aydelotte's 1917 theory and pedagogy of technical writing, called the "thought movement," in which engineering students were required to think and write about issues important to their education and future careers. (SR)

Describes multimedia boxes and how they can be used in classrooms. Suggests ways teachers might begin a multimedia box and different ideas for using it. (HB)

Provides an overview of the "social constructionist" approach to teaching composition in sociology courses. Describes a course that is team taught by the authors and is based on the social constructionist paradigm. Stresses that sociological writing is a special type of discourse that can be taught most effectively by sociologists who…

Proposes that English teachers recycle philology as a field of study. Redefines the shape of philology in view of postmodern theories of signification. Considers concepts of hermeneutics in retheorizing the aims of philology. Shows how such philological investigation might be used in the classroom to study literary texts. (HB)

Explores the use of elements of the cultural practices of native peoples in the elementary school classroom as a way of introducing children to other cultures. Discusses the appropriate use of native-like experiences in contextualized mimesis to bring life to curricula. (SLD)

Reviews several classroom techniques. Presents examples to illustrate the use of authentic assessment at an ecology education center. Discusses issues such as the correlation of learning objectives and program content, development and scoring, and other considerations associated with the implementation of authentic assessment. (Author/CCM)

Outlines the rationale for a course for university faculty wanting to use the Internet for teaching and learning. Evaluates potential benefits of using the Internet and assesses concerns about the exploitation of this resource. Describes course design and development, and points that teachers should consider before beginning. (JOW)

Suggests that practical and emancipatory knowledge (Habermas, 1971) have been underemphasized in dental curriculum, and that until they are fostered, visions of competency and the joining of theory and practice will be difficult to achieve. Highlights strategies to foster such knowledge within competency-based curricula: problem-based learning and…

Applies teaching approaches from "Standards for Foreign Language Learning" to higher education, discussing recycling of old curricula to meet students' pragmatic needs and current literacy state without compromising the discipline. Department members are urged to collaborate to determine literature's place in their programs, identify core topics…

Develops a Korean environmental instruction model to encourage responsible environmental behavior. Suggests components for this model. (Author/SAH)

Describes problem-based learning, in which students encounter and solve a problem through reasoning and identifying learning needs, typically through a group process. Provides a rationale and guidelines to use problem-based learning effectively to strengthen service learning curricula. (SLD)

In light of recent reform documents in science and mathematics, all teachers need to think more carefully about the importance, meaning, and nature of the outcomes students are to achieve. Further suggests that teachers must critically analyze any discrepancies between what they advocate instructionally and what exists in the professional…