Colleges and universities have embraced distance education as a solution to meet challenges brought by demands for access, reduced state and federal funding, and strained institutional resources. Paralleling the growth of distance educational courses, programs, and enrollments, is the need to have increasing numbers of faculty delivering…

This research-based set of hands-on activities can be used alone or alongside another text in any Diversity or Multicultural Education course (the activities are referenced in "Human Diversity in Education," Fifth Edition, by Cushner/McClelland/Safford, for which this workbook is an ideal companion). Instead of just telling, this workbook allows…

This small exploratory case study describes an attempt to integrate the academic and practical aspects of a teacher education course in order to promote deep understanding of children's ways of understanding mathematics. The assessment regime of the course was used as a strategic tool for engaging students, and the assessment tasks themselves were…

This qualitative study investigated effective instructional methods to train elementary education preservice teachers to apply reading comprehension strategies as readers and teachers. Four comprehension strategies and the components of two instructional models that have proven their efficacy were selected for the content and instructional…

This report provides a guide for evaluation of the implementation of the general education component of programs of studies in Quebec. The college education reform of 1993 has had a particularly strong impact on the general education component of education programs. To gauge the scope of changes made to general education and of efforts made to…

Contrasts and compares historical research on rural and Native American education and regional novels ("To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Laughing Boy") in order to demonstrate the importance of diversity in the concept of rurality. Suggests regional novels are an important component in the study of rural education. (AH)

This study examined 38 textbooks, published between 1977 and 1981 in the fields of social work and education. Evaluations were frequently cited. Compared to social work texts, education texts cited significantly more program outcome findings; social work texts tended to cite more references dealing with recipient characteristics. (Author/PN)

Presents opposing positions on returning teacher education to the academic disciplines. (JL)

Concepts that are directly related to teaching are learned as such by education majors and play an integral part in students' development into teachers. Further research using other student populations or in other areas of teacher education is needed. (Author/CJ)

Of the 1,388 teachers responding to a discipline survey, 69 percent cited discipline as the most crucial of 10 current educational issues. Factors that have led to an increase in discipline problems are discussed, and data are included on the coverage given to discipline issues in undergraduate and graduate coursework. (IAH)

Describes the first assessment of Foxfire's graduate course for teachers, offered at six universities. Reports that the course fulfilled participants' expectations, changed their attitudes toward alternative teaching styles and their work as teachers, and developed their understanding of the teacher-student relationship. (SV)

This article discusses the rationale for teaching preservice teachers to participate in action research, and describes the guidelines followed in developing and teaching the action research course given as part of the elementary PROTEACH program at the University of Florida. (IAH)

Content and activities are described for an undergraduate social foundations course whose goals are examination of current purposes of public education, evaluation of these purposes in light of democratic principles, and exploration of realistic alternatives for school and teacher that take education for democracy seriously. (IAH)