Since the mid-1990s in Hong Kong there has been a slow but obvious shift from expecting students with disabilities to be educated in segregated special schools to providing more opportunities for them to be educated alongside their mainstream peers. Pre-service teacher training institutions have begun to offer modules of study in order to assist…

This paper traces the translation processes associated with the mobilization of resources and human agency in the development of a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Innovations Course for universities in Africa. University teachers are often neglected in teacher education initiatives. There are…

Graduate programmes in instructional design/educational technology are, by their nature, continuously being updated and improved. As a most recent iteration of the ever-evolving graduate experience, an experimental programme at Pennsylvania State University's Instructional Systems programme takes as its centerpiece a research apprenticeship in…

General education classrooms provide a common milieu for understanding and appropriating results of classroom research projects, which are typically viewed as having little application outside their original contexts. Here, results of an investigation into the "sophomore slump," where grades and class attendance rates typically suffer, are…

This paper describes how a frame has been used to articulate the intentions of a preservice chemistry education course to students of that course. The frame, which draws on appropriate knowledge bases for teachers of science, is also used through the teaching of the course as a diagnostic and development tool to assist the learning of these…

Modern primary teachers must adapt literacy programmes and ensure efficient learning for all. They must also support children with language and literacy difficulties, children learning English as an additional language and possibly teach a modern foreign language. To do this effectively, they need to understand the applied linguistics research…

This paper describes academic programs in college teaching designed for doctoral students at the University of New Hampshire. Programs include a 12-credit program "Cognate in College Teaching," which a doctoral student can add to a Ph.D. program, and the Master of Science for Teachers program, which doctoral students can complete as a…

This paper discusses the conceptual reform of university-based graduate level administrator preparation programs. The functionalist, interpretative, and critical approaches to social science have important implications for the study of motivation, decision-making, communication and leadership. Interpretative and critical approaches must be woven…

This paper describes the Communication in Education Workshop offered at the University of Colorado, outlines the procedures used in implementing the program, and makes recommendations for future implementation. The course was designed to allow each student to build an integrated unit of study, by providing fifteen two-hour minicourses from which…

This kit explains the use of minicourses at Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia, which were designed for the inservice training of teachers. The kit contains the script of the audio commentary, a cassette tape, color slides, and a booklet entitled "Anatomy of the Minicourse." The tape briefly describes the minicourses in general and…

This paper is divided into two parts: the first is a description of the community-based multicultural teacher education program at Indiana University, and the second is a proposal for community-based teacher training programs in Africa. The first section discusses the means and objectives of the community-based multicultural teacher education…

In this study, questionnaires were sent to 191 university departments of educational administration and political science in October 1969 to determine whether the departments offered courses in the politics of education. The 179 respondents identified 45 courses or sequences of courses offered at U.S. and Canadian universities. A table of…

The experimental program in teacher education at Indiana State University was divided into four phases. Phase I, Course Introduction, pursued ideas of concept teaching, lesson plan formulation and lesson critiques. Phase II was devoted entirely to peer teaching. Prelesson planning and postlesson discussion augmented the one class hour each student…

Describes an education program in which engineering students remain affiliated with their traditional departments but obtain a subspecialty in engineering education by taking 20-30 quarter hours of elective coursework in engineering education. (MLH)