Michael Woolf's article, "Come and See the Poor People: The Pursuit of Exotica," is a provocative critique of what he calls the "new orthodoxy" of promoting study abroad in non-traditional destinations. Woolf's underlying point is that the current emphasis on promoting student mobility to non-traditional, i.e. non-European, destinations "is…

Twenty-two 5- and 6-year-old children and their parents in one playschool in Reykjavik participated in this study designed to shed light on children's and parents' views about their early childhood program. Group interviews, children's photographs, children's drawings, and a questionnaire administered as a game were used to elicit children's…

The article analyses the relation between religion, education and citizenship as reflected in recent research and current debates regarding religion in Pakistani schools. Following a description of the political context, two different views (one Christian, one Muslim) on the current state of affairs are presented. After a consideration of the…

A study was conducted to determine whether wine experts, already trained in the traditional oenology method, would be interested in learning about wine through multimedia and distance learning. Data were gathered from 113 of the 502 members of the American Wine Society who attended a national conference in November 1995. About 58 percent were male…

To account for the fact that the average reading literacy in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada) is lower than the national average, a study examined the value that individuals place on literacy. Subjects, 625 males and females, each of whom was a head or one of the heads of households between 21 and 65 years of age and had not participated in an…

This paper analyzes the process of tenure using various conceptions of narrative as the interpretive lens for considering the meaning of achieving tenure. It first examines tenure as narrative performance, noting when, where, and in what context tenure is discussed. The paper then looks at tenure through Donald Polkinghorne's (1988) analytical…

This paper describes one strand of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) project aimed at developing a set of international education indicators. This strand is concerned with attitudes and expectations of elementary and secondary schools held by parents, teachers, the public, employers, and students. The network of…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were certain distinguishable characteristics of students who preferred an independent study program when compared to students who preferred a more traditional approach to education. (Author)

Article investigated the characteristics of the educative process of public schools in an attempt to disprove that they are neutral vis-a-vis the subject of religion. (Author/RK)

Author wrote of the difficulties in bringing about the spirit of change

A Minnesota program sends artists into corrective institutuions to try through art to change the behavior of incarcerated youngsters. (Editor)

Article examined the part played by liberal arts in educational history and projected its role in the future. (RK)

Both the support of inquiry in education and the character of university attention to the problems of school are two reasons for the attitude in research and policy studies which restricts scholarly approaches to social scientific inquiry. (Author/KM)

A study was conducted to determine what secretaries perceive their training needs to be, and to determine how those training needs might be related to various demographic variables of the individual secretary. A questionnaire was developed that included the majority of skills that could be taught in a training session for secretaries. Thirty-six…

Explores correlates of legislator voting on educational legislation and the degree to which education issues are unidimensional. Differences in partisan affiliation, constituency, and personal background are examined as major explanatory factors for voting variations. (Author)