This article describes the Early Literacy Program, an integrated literacy curriculum for special education students designed collaboratively among university and school-based researchers to promote classroom discourse for negotiating and constructing meanings in reading and writing. The program emphasizes holistic and contextualized activities,…

Reviews some of the attitudes and activities basic to the National Writing Project's Technology Network. (SR)

Warns against tendencies in educational circles to make lists but not check them twice. Discusses Denny Taylor's "Learning Denied" and Bart Kosko's "Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic," as well as seven education articles. (SR)

Fundamental changes in Eastern Europe are changing adult education. The East German folk high schools are striving to revive their democratic tradition. Educators in the USSR are applying "perestroika" to adult education principles. (SK)

Elaborates 23 principles and practices for teaching community educators to use a participative, accountable popular education approach. (SK)

Offers a list of continuing health professional education principles developed by a network of 26 individuals in 14 countries that provide a broad perspective and, as a result of this consultation with individuals of varying cultural circumstances, show differences in emphasis. Proposes personal, educational, and administrative principles.…

The basic weakness in school systems is the failure to develop theoretical principles to guide practice while insisting that education is a social science instead of applied personal philosophies. (SK)

Introduces this theme issue on Mario Montessori's writings. Describes how his life experiences contributed to the idea of freedom in education, seen as a recurring theme in his mother, Maria Montessori's writings, and also contributed to the integration of the Montessori perspective. (KB)

Argues that educators should provide students with explicit training in asking critical questions. Describes a training strategy taught in abnormal psychology courses at Bowling Green State University (Ohio). Based on a pre- and post-test, results support the promise of using explicit questioning training in promoting the evaluative aspects of…

Higher education needs models for helping students develop the skills, character traits, and sensibilities that experts agree will be essential in the 21st century. Argues that one obvious but overlooked answer to this is the armed forces. Explores what the Marines are doing right and what higher education can learn from them. (Author/MKA)

Contributes to scholarship on the history of business communication by examining Daniel Defoe's "The Complete English Tradesman" (1727-1728), a large instructional manual designed to prepare young tradesmen for success in the world of 18th-century business. Looks at the book's two chapters dealing with good business writing. (SR)

Examines questions related to family and consumer sciences internships: What should be the purpose--work or learning? How should knowledge and practice be connected? and What is the role of the onsite professional--knowledge delivery or knowledge construction? (SK)

To achieve its expressed political goals of social empowerment and transformation, cultural studies must maintain some significant ethical and political commitments. The growing field of cultural studies is analyzed in terms of its definition within a specific ethical and social justice agenda and its links to the critical pedagogy tradition in…

Proposes a new philosophy of technical education that incorporates values thought to be important for a humane, just, and sustainable society. Contains 19 references. (Author/WRM)

Discusses elements of a larger work on music education in the context of a rebuttal to critics. Includes sections on philosophical bases, composing and performing, works of music, musical listening, musical understanding, verbal knowledge, music and other arts, musical creativity, and educational values. (DSK)