A one-day workshop for corporation managers included a closing exercise which provided a test of one's learning and a condition whereby participants can have a "success experience." (Author/PT)

Describes annual Theatre Arts Workshop Days at Troy High School, Michigan, in which professional artists from theatres and universities participate. (PD)

A survey examined admission barriers, client and disability variables, program content, and levels of school/agency cooperation in adult activity, work activity, and sheltered workshops in a midwestern state which has a representative urban-suburban-rural profile. (Author/SB)

Describes how Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, successfully reversed a 15-year contract management arrangement for custodial services and built its own in-house management team. The article describes and presents results of the university's task-development workshop. (GR)

All education programmes are designed to make changes. Few are clear on how change is defined, or what specifically needs to be changed. Yet the way that educators interpret this magic word makes all the difference to the content and method of programmes. Customarily, most Chinese workers' education programmes are designed to change workers, in…

This study investigates a Listening and Dialogue training workshop in a manufacturing company. Instructors presented dialogue as a way of communicating that enables groups to think together, which is consistent with Bohm's epistemological approach. However, organizational members described profound meaningful experiences of connection, otherness,…

This document discusses the authors' preparation for 100th Anniversary Celebration of The Religious Education Association (REA). A brief overview of the authors' involvement in religious education is summarized. Through preparation for this meeting, the author was invited to facilitate a workshop on "Faith and Culture." 30 women from Kenya,…

Brigham Young University and its collaborative partners throughout Utah recognize that effectively "integrating technology" into pre-service programs and ultimately into K-12 classrooms requires rethinking both the potentials of technology and the programs themselves. And this rethinking needs to be done together. BYU (both School of…

In this article, the author shares her observations as a member of the City Writers, a community-based fiction-writers' workshop that is not affiliated with any universities or any organizations in the state of Illinois. The group was started with a small grant from the state's arts council, but City Writers no longer receives any form of public…

This article announces the 96th NCTE Annual Convention which is to be held in Nashville, Tennessee. For the component of the upcoming convention, the Secondary Section Steering Committee has created an extensive program that the organizers hoped to meet the needs of both new and experienced teachers. During the convention, over 142 individual and…

This collection of three articles represents the "Points and Practices" section of this month's issue of "Research in Drama Education." The first article, "'Fitting the Bill' for 'Helping Them.' A Response to 'Integrated Popular Theatre Approach in Africa' and 'Commissioned Theatre Projects on Human Rights in…

The conceptual framework is alluded to in most serious texts on research, described in some and fully explained in few. However, examiners of doctoral theses devote considerable attention to exploring its function within social science doctoral vivas. A literature survey explores how the conceptual framework is itself conceptualised and explained.…

This paper reports the latest stage of a research project focused on developing students' understanding of assessment criteria, the assessment process and assessment standards. It explains the theory of a social-constructivist assessment process model and details one particular module where the authors have tried to put it into practice. In…

This study determined the influence of an academic workshop on appropriate declaration of a major for students who graduated, but were previously undeclared, at one small, private, urban, coeducational, religiously-affiliated, four-year, commuter college in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. A posttest only control group design revealed…

As an art educator, the author understands how simple materials can be used to create complex structures. Yet, sometimes what everyone needs is a spark of inspiration to connect those available materials to have an idea grow to fruition. When teachers allow themselves to think creatively, they can inspire their students to greater understanding of…