In the discourse of learner self-management, learners must take responsibility for learning and are offered the possibility of individual autonomy and control. A critical perspective reveals that environmental constraints inhibit the success of technical-rational self-management techniques. An alternative view is the entrepreneurial self, a…

Although General National Vocational Qualifications purport to empower students through transfer-of-learning responsibility, a case study shows students used freedom for their own purposes but resisted the burden of managing their own work. In resisting empowerment, students may in fact be exercising power. (SK)

Discusses the reasons why, despite changes in both society and attitudes of men and women towards their roles, there still exists inequality between the sexes. Also discusses how this inequality negatively affects intimate relationships. Suggests ways that men, women, and society can remedy the situation and encourage greater fulfillment in love.…

Health and welfare agencies are increasingly accommodating the women's movement by cultivating interpersonal skills and competencies and moving away from traditional gender roles and forms of community. The emphasis is on helping women acquire autonomy and develop new forms of community. (SK)

Responses from 111 entrepreneurs revealed that work characteristics/pressures influence work more than family commitment; parental demands and partner support influence family more than work commitment. Women devote more time to family and men to work. Autonomy enables entrepreneurs to minimize the intrusion of family on work. (SK)

Developed an integrative model of adolescent autonomy that considers attitudinal, emotional, and functional autonomy. Tested this model through a questionnaire assessing adolescent autonomy completed by 400 Dutch adolescents between 12 and 18 years. Confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence for the three hypothesized dimensions. (SLD)

Analyzes teaching and learning processes of Web-based instruction (WBI) as shown in recent literature, and develops a theoretical framework of WBI using an existing distance education theory called Transactional Distance Theory to provide a better understanding of the pedagogical components of WBI. Discusses emerging learner collaboration and…

Massification and large-scale research funding have changed higher education from a small and elite enterprise, where academic autonomy could be defended as an end in itself, to a key participant in the economic mainstream for which academic autonomy is a means to a particular end. That end, increasingly, is to serve the public interest by…

This article considers some ways in which the school classroom enters into, changes and complicates musical meanings, focusing particularly on the role of popular music and how it relates to classical music. I suggest that in bringing popular music into the curriculum, educators have largely ignored the informal learning practices of popular…

This paper asks what and how some children tell others about themselves and the life they live at home and in school. Drawing on data collected through ethnographic observations, interviews and children's written texts about themselves, the article illustrates the meanings children create and attach to their everyday experience of interactions…

During the author's second year of graduate school, a few friends approached him with the idea of taking on independent consulting projects together or perhaps even starting an evaluation consulting company. He was thrilled and anxious all at once. More than anything else, he had lots of questions that needed answers before fully committing…

This paper reports on the efficacy of a professional development framework premised on four complex systems design principles: Feedback, Adaptation, Network Growth and Self-organization (FANS). The framework is applied to the design and delivery of the first 2 years of a 3-year study aimed at improving teacher and student understanding of…

It is widely held that personal autonomy is a quality of character at which educators ought to aim. In this paper I argue that those who hold this view are misguided. I identify two ordinary senses of autonomy, and a range of technical senses currently popular with philosophers, and show that none of them constitutes a defensible educational aim.…

Recently, artwork of child artists from the Carrolup settlement school in Western Australia was rediscovered in the archives of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. The young artists were among what was then called the half-caste children and now known as the Stolen Generation. Between the late 1800s and mid 1970s the Australian…

This paper explores the issue of motivation in music learning in higher education by contextualising data collected as part of the "Investigating-Musical-Performance" research project (Welch, et al., 2006-2008). The discussion begins with findings which suggest that popular, jazz and folk musicians experience more pleasure in musical…