Advocates incorporating humor in the classroom (as a means of assessing students' learning and understanding) by deliberately establishing a classroom environment conducive to original expression and risk-taking, and by the juxtaposition of curriculum material. (SR)

Principals must attend to eight curricular issues in their role as instructional leader: amount of content; extent of academic focus on coursework; focus and sequence of courses; breadth versus depth of content; differential access to knowledge; homework as an extension of content; curricular alignment; and quality of course objectives. Includes…

The essentials of an Italian degree in Management Engineering are described. Aspects such as engineers versus managers, educational curriculum and envisaged development of the course are discussed. (Author/YP)

Suggests that the imposition of order on history perpetuates a historian/history teacher dichotomy. Illustrates prevailing fallacies in the teaching of history: (1) the moniker fallacy; (2) the one-school fallacy; (3) the contextual fallacy; and (4) the wave fallacy. States that an avoidance of these fallacies will at least partially reconcile…

Very little is known about the processes whereby people encounter and assimilate knowledge about the environmental crisis. The author raises observations and reflections on people's responses to this kind of knowledge. (Author/JOW)

Presents five learning activities which are designed to enable the student of psychology to better understand the aging and the aged. Activities are concerned with current demographic data, stereotyping, perceptions of personal aging, attitudes about age found in greeting cards, and an examination of popular culture's messages about the elderly.…

Study of six European entrepreneurship education programs, especially those focused on high tech/knowledge-based entrepreneurship, finds considerable variety in terms of institutional type, target audience, and duration and considerable convergence of learning strategies, methods, and content. Successful programs focus on a specific population,…

Analyzes course requirements to determine the amount of required mathematics and science for production-oriented agronomy majors. Reports that mathematics requirements center around college algebra and statistics; science requirements generally include chemistry, biology, plant physiology, and genetics; and land-grant institutions have a…

Reviews the philosophical controversy concerning naturalism, and investigates the role it might play in the science classroom. Argues that science students can benefit from explicit study of this controversy and from explicit consideration of the extent to which philosophy of science can be studied naturalistically. (PR)

Telephone interviews with 390 of 400 college students revealed an overall favorable impression of food safety and agriculture's impact on the economy and environment. Males were more positive about animal welfare and production agriculture. Gender, college major, and hometown were related to attitudes about agriculture issues. (SK)

Rapid changes in health sciences necessitate frequent revision of nursing curricula. A system that prioritizes health issues by such factors as magnitude, quality of life, duration of illness, case fatality rate, and concurrent burdens can help determine essential curriculum content. (SK)

Reports on a study of 88 students in an introductory college psychology course to determine whether a media assignment increased students' ability to apply psychological concepts to real-world events. Finds mixed results but concludes that media assignments may enhance student learning. (CFR)

Argues that two features of Roman declamatory exercises merit scrutiny by contemporary scholars and teachers of composition: the contextual nature of the fully developed declamatory case, and the insistence that orators explore the opposing positions that surround an actual argument. (RS)

Describes a way of using history to teach poetry in the English classroom. Argues that coupling history and poetry is a powerful way to teach both topics to students. (HB)

The point-counterpoint technique adapted from "60 Minutes" is a way to examine multifaceted issues in depth. It demonstrates that there is often more than one correct answer, encourages creative problem solving, and establishes a highly interactive learning environment. (SK)