Notes that very few journalists have formal training in corruption reporting. Discusses workshops held in 2000 and 2001 on the subject of corruption reporting for Pacific Island journalists. Explains the role of the media as an anti-corruption mechanism and the difficulty journalists face in identifying and sometimes stamping out corruption. Looks…

Describes a program called Learning Enhancements through Innovation (LEI) Aloha, developed at the University of Hawaii, Manoa to integrate technology into the preservice teacher education curriculum. Explains the technology intensive (TI) designation; TI standards and guidelines; course proposals; professional development for faculty teaching the…

Describes a participatory research project that involved adult education practitioners in the Caribbean in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Explains how participatory research is the process by which knowledge is generated and skills are acquired, by both the researcher and the researched. (SK)

Argues that using teachers' own course materials helps create interest and involvement during content area inservice workshops. Notes that using course materials and texts provides relevancy and practical applications that teachers want from inservice workshops. (RS)

Results showed that children in delayed recall remembered more about an episode if they had experienced additional similar episodes. With increasing experience, children tended to confuse details. Kindergarteners were better able to report a repeated event than a singular event in temporal sequence. (RH)

Guidelines are presented for staff developers in preparing the content and planning for delivery of presentations. The basic planning techniques that are described are based upon learning theory and regard for the audience. (JD)

The article describes the Family Support Institute in British Columbia which provides families of mentally handicapped persons with information (parent to parent contact, written articles, video and cassette tapes and a newsletter), workshops, and networking. (DB)

Describes a workshop for teaching library users how to manage reprint files which was developed at the University of Southern California Norris Medical Library. Software programs designed for this purpose are suggested, and a sidebar lists software features to consider. (eight references) (MES)

Current Canadian citizenship curricula can be expanded beyond instruction geared toward the citizenship hearing. A definition of the purpose and meaning of intercultural education precedes suggestions on how citizenship teachers can add an intercultural dimension to their curriculum planning. (Author/CB)

Compared pre-discharge psychoeducation workshops for relatives of psychiatric inpatients, conducted with and without patient present, to hospital-tour and no-contact control groups. Found no group differences in patient relapse or family involvement in treatment after discharge; nor did groups differ on questionnaire measures of relatives' illness…

Describes workshop developed at the Catholic University of America to help international students work temporarily in the United States through Practical Training employment, thus making their education more meaningful and providing them with work experience. Presents history and rationale of the program and discusses cultural issues that must be…

Describes the use of containers (formal structures, organizers, or frameworks into which a presenter can drop content) to save time when planning a presentation. To use containers, presenters must know the type of presentation outcome and allocated time, have information about the audience, and have information about various presentation…

Suggests that the interplay between illustrative objectivity and artistic impression is nearly the same, in essence, in the imagery of poetry and in the imagery of painting. Discusses the nature and function of imagery in poetry and visual art. Describes the dilemma of attempting to convince students to "show" rather than…

Authorized by Title X of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Community Relations Service (CRS) is a mediation service dealing with community racial disputes. CRS has spent much of the past three years working in Los Angeles and is now handling problem solving in multiracial, multicultural schools in Stockton, California. Workshop participants usually…

As part of two outdoor workshops (n=37 and 38) for Master of Business Administration students focused on team building, teams completed case studies. A control group completed case studies without the outdoor component. Results clearly indicated that outdoor education can accelerate team development and the evaluation method proved useful. (SK)