Examines how high school teachers maintain order in the classroom, with emphasis on the unnoticed and subconscious nature of the accomplishment. Suggests that one general strategy a teacher uses is to constitute the pupils as a collectivity (cohort). Reviews relevant literature on cohort management. For journal availability, see SO 507 999.…

Findings demonstrate that older people, just like any other segment of the population, have a wide variety of interests, not particularly determined by their age status. In fact, they have more freedom in selecting classes than do younger students because they take what is appealing. (Author)

The authors take issue with Mary Anne Raywid's article on public alternative schools in the April 1981 "Kappan." Specifically, they address the "myths" concerning student veto power, evaluation, impetus for developing alternative schools, and the effects of federal money. (WD)

A questionnaire was administered to randomly selected university undergraduates. Though a majority supported the right of faculty to unionize and strike, few would support a strike by university faculty. Results indicate an unfavorable situation for students assuming a more active role in collective bargaining in higher education. (Author/BEF)

Self-instructional programs in the commonly taught languages are recommended for: (1) those who cannot get to classes, (2) classes with individual learner needs, and (3) learners advanced enough to take on self-directed tasks. The roles of teacher and learner in self-instructional programs are discussed. (JB)

Discusses recent use by scholars of the term "negotiation" in critical discussions of teaching writing to talk about how students might have a hand in shaping the world of difference of which they are part. Advocates discussing not only positive associations but also negative associations of negotiation, thinking about political and…

Conceiving of students as clients views teaching as a hierarchical one-way or buyer/seller relationship. Promotion of learning in a sacred relationship between teachers and students implies ways of being and habits of mind more conducive to emancipatory, empowering education. (SK)

Composite mentoring is proposed to guide students to take a more active role in their own mentoring experiences. A mentoring program with composite mentoring as a guiding framework was designed and implemented for college women pursuing science careers. The effectiveness of the program is illustrated, and students reported enhanced mentoring and…

Using the construct of 'voice', this paper argues that the role of the teacher and the student is constantly changing as multiple voices can be heard in the discursive pedagogic space of distance education. Discusses changes in distance education with the introduction of new digital technologies and interaction between student and teacher.…

Discusses contemporary challenges for quality assurance and accreditation in light of electronic learning and the impact of technology. Highlights include a history of formal education and quality criteria; new paradigms, including the role of end users and focusing on outcomes rather than processes; and definitions of quality assurance and…

Self-evaluation skills are believed to promote professional development, enhance self-esteem, and develop self-awareness, but nursing students are not taught these skills in any systematic way. Collaborative evaluation techniques provide nursing educators with a framework for teaching students essential self-evaluation skills. (Author)

When traditional approaches to literacy programs and learners are examined critically, a new participatory paradigm that recognizes learners' capacities to shape and control program development emerges. (Editor)

In nursing education, the curricular focus is shifting from objectives, outcomes, and evaluation to reflection, intuition, and praxis. Active learning, requiring a higher level of maturity, emphasizes constructing new knowledge and meaning, empowering students to take charge of their experience. (SK)

A leadership building page for elementary students focuses on a sixth-grade Florida girl who works with preschool students with disabilities, is an active member of Students against Substance Abuse, dances in school plays, earns honor roll grades, and interprets for her deaf parents. (SM)

Observations in a public school kindergarten class show how the teacher uses a series of rituals to help the children shed their home roles, make the transition to school roles, and reaggregate as students. The teacher's use of transitional or liminal rituals to construct the moral identity of the role of student is explored. (SLD)