Delineates why the National Commission for the Social Studies provides an excellent opportunity for improving social studies education. Identifies several issues the Commission must address, including the value of teaching social studies, the content of social studies curriculum, and when and how to teach the social studies. (LS)

Demonstrates how collaboration among student development educators and university instructors can use content of academic courses to facilitate personal development in adolescent college students. Describes application of Chickering's seven vectors of human development to accomplish this in course entitled Drinking and Driving: Legal and Social…

Proposes several strategies for overcoming obstacles to an integrated methodology, and to student interests and learning, in teaching a foreign language dramatic literature course. The activities focus on both reading and writing of drama, characterization, and interpretation. (CB)

Virtual Curriculum is a method of aggregating and packaging courses, matching faculty-created course content with industry training needs to customize courses. Application software enables aggregation and development of syllabi, lessons, modules, and test items. (SK)

Addresses the problems of adapting instructional courses for trans-European tele-learning and for enlarging the range of students and learning modalities in distance learning. Building on previous work on the portability of educational software, various dimensions of software adaptation are examined and their possible effects on course adaptation…

Attempts to bring together research approaches and an international perspective to the teaching and learning of evolution. Contains 15 references. (ZWH)

Overviews three computer software programs. "Triple Play" allows its user to practice listening and speaking skills without having to type letters. "In the French Body" and "In the German Body" are designed to heighten students' awareness of nonverbal communicative behaviors by French and German native speakers and to help students develop skills…

Examines the impact of women's studies on the higher education curriculum by tracing the history and documenting specific examples of the institutionalization of women's studies. Suggests that new generations of scholars have benefited from the curricular revisions that resulted from the women's studies movement. (51 citations). (MAB)

Describes methods for teaching student writers by bringing in the literary concept of metaphor. Argues that such a method of writing instruction helps students to develop skills of imagination and logical reasoning. Claims that metaphors can help underprepared students control the chaos called the writing process. (HB)

Investigated the nature of biology teachers' global content understandings, and sources and formation of subject matter structures (SMSs). Reports that the initial formation of SMSs was credited to college content courses and modified by the act of teaching. Variables that differentially affected SMS translation included teacher intentions,…

In a survey, 50 continuing education faculty expressed concern about setting the right climate in the first session of a course. They attempt to balance students' needs and concerns with course and content issues. Although they wanted to create the proper social climate, they were only moderately concerned about "getting acquainted." (SK)

Stresses that an important industrial area is product reliability, especially for semiconductors. Suggests that physics students would benefit from training in semiconductors: the many modes of failure, radiation effects, and electrical contact problems. (MVL)

Suggests that a course in desktop publishing can provide students at rural schools with experience equivalent to internships. Notes that the course provided students with real-world experience and benefited the university in terms of services and public relations. (RS)

The National Academy for Voluntarism conducts management training and development for United Way through a four-part series on basic management skills, management for results, organizational change, and management strategy. A blend of university faculty and external consultants is a key element. (SK)

Hungarian business education in a restructuring era faces such challenges as underemphasis on corporate finance/accounting and overemphasis on bookkeeping, lack of status for marketing in the curriculum, and isolation of subjects with little practical application. The goal of sustainable development is a possible focus for business administration…