Within teacher education the position of educational foundations courses is increasingly precarious. Such courses are often declared irrelevant by students who embrace the aims of training and immediate practicality over education as the essence of learning to teach. Drawing on student and instructor diaries and diary summaries, the article…

Teaching English in elementary schools has been an important educational policy in Asian countries over the past several decades. This study investigates how in-service teachers in elementary schools conceptualize their practical knowledge about English teaching in Taiwan. It provides examples of experiences and practical knowledge that English…

Proclaimed as the "Word of the Year" in 2004 by the "Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary," blog is the official abbreviated name for Weblog. The Weblog began as an online journal, with a single author providing hyperlinks to Web sites of interest and posting personal commentaries for the world to read, ponder, and…

In this commentary, the authors discuss the implications of A. S. Green, E. Rafaeli, N. Bolger, P. E. Shrout, and H. T. Reis's (2006) diary studies with respect to memory. Researchers must take 2 issues into account when determining whether paper-and-pencil or handheld electronic diaries gather more trustworthy data. The first issue is a matter of…

Literary scholars like Lynn Bloom consider truly private diaries as "bare-boned" works which are "written with neither art nor artifice." In 1995, a "pile of bones" arrived at one person's door delivered by Federal Express. They were the bones of her great aunt Annie Ray--fragments of the diary she kept from 1881 to…

The use of personal documents in social science research, and in particular, methods and limitations of journal keeping in research on teaching planning, are discussed. Field studies are reported in which teachers were asked to record their planning deliberations and the accompanying thoughts in a personal journal. While it became apparent that…

Stresses the importance of preserving information for use by future administrators. Suggests that administrators preserve important documents from the files, keep newspaper clippings of important university events and a copy of the annual report to the President. (HMV)

While politicians argue about standards and administrators carry on cutting, life inside school carries on. The staff at South View County Junior School in Basingstoke have been looking at their everyday experience by keeping a record of just one of their working weeks. (Editor)

Broad objectives and a Five-Year Plan are given for the Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. (MN)

A teacher describes how a classroom diary, part of a daily classroom routine, was created through class members sharing their experiences with each other. The diary also served as a teaching tool in such areas as language arts and handwriting. (CB)

Recommends use of entries from the information retrieval diary of Ted Crump, expert technical translator at the National Institute of Health, in the construction of computer models showing how expert translators solve problems of ambiguity in language. Expert and inexpert translation systems, eponyms, abbreviations, and alphabetic solutions are…

The first year of a college presidency is described by Arthur Levine, the president of Bradford College. His proposal for a "practical liberal arts education plan" is described and his efforts to implement it are discussed. (MLW)

Defines different types of student journals and assesses them worth an allocation of class time based on research and samples of student work. (CRH)

Diachronic and comparative study of the Pequot language from sources compiled by Ezra Stiles in 1762 and Frank G. Speck in 1928; preliminary version of this article presented at the 11th Conference on American Indian Languages, December 2, 1972, Toronto, Canada. (RS)