In Australia there has been a rapid move to an acceptance of education for sustainability as mainstream environmental education. We argue that education for sustainability, with its platform of assisting individuals in making apparently informed decisions to create a more sustainable world, is at some distance from promoting more ethically-based…

There is an increasing call for curricula in health care to facilitate interprofessional client-centred evidence-based decision making through a reflective and reflexive framework. This discussion paper proposes that adoption of the World Health Organisation, International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework…

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…