This article presents a roundtable discussion on prospects of the development of higher education in Russia and the realization of the potential of state and nonstate institutions of higher learning. The roundtable was held as part of the second international scientific conference "Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century" held at…

Academic developers are very often disciplinary migrants, performing hybrid, liminal roles at the "fault lines" between teachers and learners, between academics and managers, and between teaching and research. As a result, their identities as scholars can be described as "unhomely." While this in-between space is uncomfortable…

In recent times, questions of religious education--about the place and significance of knowledge and understanding of religious belief and practice in the general educational development of children and young people--seem to have been largely overshadowed or overtaken by controversies concerning the relative merits and shortcomings of common and…

A look at The London Education Classification, based on facet analysis, and has also been used as the basis for a thesaurus which was the English contribution to the multilingual thesaurus compiled for the EUDISED project of the Council of Europe. (Author)

A form used for collecting information as part of a research study on the Tests of General Educational Development is presented. (CK)

Historical review of the development and dissemination of ordinary-language algorithms. (STS)

Early analysis sought to identify tasks while recent techniques focus upon analysis of the content of tasks and are more prescriptive. Examples of such analysis appropriate to sequential tasks, one behavior chain task and one algorithm task, are presented to illustrate the prescriptive function of content analysis. (Author)

A survey of the development of instructional systems in the Soviet Union. (Editor)

Contributions to education made by Napoleon, Pestalozzi; and Fichte are discussed. (DB)

Discusses how transnational corporations might contribute to various forms of education in developing countries and describes measures states should take to encourage their receiving benefits. (Author/RH)

Traces the development of instructional technology over the past quarter century, and expresses the need for a single knowledge base, something definitive on which all in the field can agree. (RAO)

Analyzes the educational implications of the "no-comparison message" that is present in almost all of the publicity material produced by New Zealand-based agencies working in the area of aid and development. Calls for a radical reorientation of the messages being promoted and actions undertaken. Contains 20 references. (AMA)

The basic question of this essay is what motivates a person to act on behalf of the ethical good Critical theorists such as Max Horkheimer, Paulo Freire, and Sharon Welch have proposed the educational development of critical rationality as the answer to this question, with Freire adding the notion of love and Welch adding the notion of dangerous…