Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are being recognized globally for their influential role in realizing the UN Millennium Development Goal of education for all in developing countries. NGOs mostly employ untrained para-educators for grassroots activities. The professional development of these teachers is critical for NGO effectiveness, yet…

Article comments on contributions to an issue of Educational Policy that focuses on glocal politics of education in multiple national and international arenas. Commentary offered considers the ways in which the set of articles in this issue of EP require readers to take scalar leaps across the semiotic landscape of the local into the global. The…

This issue is devoted to the curriculum guidelines from the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium. These guidelines provide a coherent and important model for computing education within a liberal arts context, giving primacy to critical reason, rigorous methods, and student engagement in the research process. In this regard, they are at the…

Objectivity is a matter of degree, applying to many different types of belief. Ideally, the educator's duty is to present all relevant beliefs and exhibit them to the judgment of students. Subjectivism and relativism offer false imperatives leading to intolerance and authoritarianism. (SK)

The author deals with misplaced values of material wealth, which he feels are at a destructive level in our society. The role of the educator must be to teach or expose a higher value-the individual mind of man. Education must teach that there is more to man than what is apparent and that there are things of value beyond the material. (Author/MJ)

For effective education, the instructor must know the field well enough to (1) clarify and communicate purposes and directions, (2) identify and sequence content, (3) apply engaging methods for learning, and (4) evaluate student progress. (Author)

An introduction to the emerging phenomenon of death education: an examination of the positions of "traditional" philosophy and existentialism on death, with their implications for death education; some suggestions about the general orientation of death education as it has emerged; and some controversial observations about possible "hidden…

An introduction to the basic principles of the Montessori method of preschool education. (SJL)

Identifies the conceptual underpinnings of effective school-based drug education practice in light of contemporary research evidence and the practical experience of a broad range of drug education stakeholders. Results reveal that in broad terms, drug education should be evidence-based, developmentally appropriate, sequential, and contextual.…

The art of jujitsu provides an example of good adult education teaching techniques. Its methods include having students teach, offering practical applications, and recognizing students' needs. (JOW)

This article argues that a philosophical approach to education needs a comparative dimension and that a comparative approach to education needs a philosophical dimension. An analysis of the proper relationship between a philosophical and a comparative approach to education is developed with reference to needs, difficulties and opportunities.

One of the most important concepts being taught in principles classes is the idea of "thinking on the margin." It can also be one of the most difficult to get across. One of the most telling examples, according to this author, comes in trying to get students to learn the profit maximizing condition for perfectly competitive firms. She…

The objective of this work is a reflection on the ethics of education on the net as a contribution to the face-to-face interaction in the virtual world. We think the ethics is a result of a process of responsible interchange with others. Two important thinkers of the last few decades, Emmanuel Levinas e Paulo Freire contribute each one with one's…

For nearly 20 years, since the 1990 Jomtien Conference, the Academy for Educational Development has been working to expand access to achieve Education for All. As more and more children enroll in school, AED's concern has increasingly turned to the quality of their education. AED's sights are now set on Quality Education for All. This shift in…