This research project sought to determine the origin of the three-component model of agricultural education in the United States and provided a contextual base for future research into the three-component model for agricultural education. The study concluded that each of the three components of the agricultural education model originated at…

There is much interest in the effects of a larger parental role in schooling issues. That role can exist through voice--direct parental involvement in schools and participation in the political process that dictates schooling policies--or through choice from a menu of schooling options. This article addresses the limited understanding and…

Certain words or terms are used so promiscuously and show up in so many contexts that they lose their specificity and soon become devoid of utility. The I-words, namely "interdisciplinary" and "interdisciplinarity", are so powerful that it is difficult to oppose anything done in their names, and cynical speculations abound that a person or…

We propose that Disability Studies in Education (DSE) offers a framework that (a) grounds policy and practice in the experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities, (c) challenges practices/ policy that isolate, de-humanize individuals, and (c) leads to new questions to pose. In this session, we describe the pedagogy that we used to…

The purpose of this article is to provoke discussion on the priorities of research in mathematics education. Mathematics education is a vast field, and there is always a possibility that no one direction stands out in its importance. Each researcher has some list of priorities and "pet topics." The author ventures to propose a research…

The purpose of the handbook is to serve as a guide and tool for instructors of adults. It uses a "learn-by-doing" approach and briefly covers the topics of preparation, plans, instruction tools, students, practice, methods and techniques, individualized instruction, speaking, and evaluation. Tests (performance, observation, oral, paper and pencil,…

A conceptualization of the triune brain is described as offering an opportunity for a new learning paradigm that has great significance for education. (Author)

Education's bias toward the printed word as the medium of instruction has sociological consequences. All the new forms of media should be used in instruction to break away from our print dominated society. (18 references) (SJ)

A brief review of five different approaches to continuing education programs for employees. (AA)

A good" SD program should have a primary emphasis on helping the student overcome speech anxiety (communication apprehension), secondarily in serving the experimenter's needs. (Author)

Community colleges across the country have created innovative, data-informed programs that are models for educating underprepared students, engaging traditionally underserved students, and helping students from all backgrounds succeed. However, because most of these programs have limited scope, the field now has pockets of success rather than…

The innovative educational communication interventions described in this paper include the use of bi-lingual, low literacy level websites and training created by low income Latina women to increase access to health care, health information, and the internet. We focus on one grassroots intervention, aimed at increasing access to health care for…

This article includes descriptions of a process used to conduct practice-based research syntheses and the manner in which synthesis findings are used to inform and evaluate early childhood intervention practices. The main focus of a practice-based research synthesis is the unbundling of an intervention practice to identify those practice…