Describes Southern Connecticut State University's Center of Constructivist Teaching/Teacher Preparation Project, a theoretically consistent teacher education program grounded in constructivism. The program encourages extensive questioning, reflecting, and constructing as preservice teachers confront traditional beliefs, study children's…

Discusses Asiacentrism and its place in Asian American Studies, what can be learned from Afrocentrism as a paradigm, and the political and philosophical implications of Asiacentrism. The authors propose the development of an Asiacentric paradigm as a critique of the dominant Eurocentrism in theory-building in Asian American Studies. (GR)

Outlines the distinction between science (as knowledge) and scientific culture and provides a description of how one obtains membership in that culture. Concludes that including the contributions of many different groups to scientific culture when teaching the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, is a good way to emphasize that everyone…

Technology's ability to cross the border between liberal learning and practical knowledge is a compelling argument for its place in the curriculum. A review of its evolution from manual training through industrial arts to technology education provides the basis for a curriculum framework structured around the tension between technological literacy…

Argues that much psychotherapy literature and practice overvalues ways of knowing associated with science alone. The difficulty of establishing causal claims in psychotherapy points to unresolved difficulties in acquiring scientific knowledge. Additionally, the moral constitution of much psychotherapeutic focus questions the appropriateness of…

Outlines the principles of deep ecology, a movement that questions the societal values that have resulted in damage to the earth's life-supporting biosphere. In contrast to shallow reform, deep ecology encourages individuals to examine their values and relationship to nature to address the environmental crisis. (LP)

Traces the evolution of public schooling as an attempt by progressives and others to absolve citizens of Original Sin and unweave the world view of traditional Christianity. Argues that the removal from schools of Christian beliefs about morality, labor, self-control, and death signals a wish to collectivize the American masses and restore a…

A Marxist educator argues that democracy, social justice, and identity are radically eroded by modern globalized "hypercapitalism," and that standardization and routinization of culture has had serious, unfortunate consequences for students, teachers, texts, and societies. He proposes that critical pedagogy is one means of addressing this trend.…

Describes development of New Zealand's national early childhood curriculum guidelines, called by the Maori phrase for "woven mat." Examines the government's changing role in early childhood education, the curriculum development process, and sources and principles of the curriculum. Details the curriculum's specific aims for children.…

The ethos of a college or university is a belief system widely shared by faculty, students, administrators, and others. Colleges with an ethos of learning share three themes: (1) a holistic institutional philosophy of learning; (2) an involving campus culture; and (3) a climate encouraging free expression. A learning ethos must be cultivated…

Discusses the philosophy and cultural values of American Indians as expressed through their connection to the natural world. Stresses the importance of revitalizing the value of living in a harmonious and sustainable relationship to the land and, building on this relationship, through development of Indian-based environmental science curricula.…

Argues that relevant, multiethnic literature and meaningful, "democratic" activities provide a means of finding the solution to the literary tyranny that has dominated English studies for many years. (HB)

Special education research is entering a multiparadigmatic stage, with four major models: (1) critical constructivism, (2) critical functionalism, (3) constructivism, and 4) functionalism. These lie in the four quadrants of a matrix, with axes going from conflict to consensus and from subjectivity to objectivity. Applications to student…

This article discusses what inclusive education is and is not, describes ways inclusive education can provide opportunities for teachers to improve the education they provide for all their students, and offers ideas about actions teachers can take to facilitate inclusive education. Teachers are encouraged to practice three types of actions:…

Nursing education needs a new model of professional education that combines the liberal and vocational traditions--both knowing that and knowing how. Problem-based learning provides a framework for linking theory and clinical practice in a meaningful way. (SK)