A study was conducted of the processes involved in adapting to a community college teaching career, which tends to consist of essentially the same duties and responsibilities throughout the period of employment without external boundaries demarking different career activities. The study employed an ethnographic methodology, involving in-depth…

A study examined the life transitions of adult educators and their perceptions toward a summer university program. The Summer Chautauqua Program was conducted to model program evaluation techniques for students of adult and continuing education, to provide data for program planners relative to the maintenance and revision of the summer program,…

Issues and solutions in teaching and learning in higher education are addressed in 28 papers and 6 workshop reports from a 1982 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Papers are grouped under the major categories of staff development, course evaluation, teaching and learning, and microcomputers in…

This monograph, one of four in a series, contains material on a particular aspect of literacy training. Developed from reports, papers, and case studies from the Regional Literacy Workshop (November 29-December 20, 1979) held in Udaipur, India, the monographs are suggested for use in training programs for literacy personnel as background…

Using current programs and cooperative efforts as examples, this paper focuses on the emerging role of two-year institutions in various facets of international education. First, the paper reviews events over the past 10 years that are reflective of changes in community college attitudes toward international education, the benefits derived from…

A 1982 questionnaire survey of 4,800 Pennsylvania public school administrators sought to determine what topics the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) should present in its "Executive Academy" programs. The Executive Academy was created to help the state's school districts and intermediate units improve their administrative and…

In spring 1984, a study was conducted at the University of Maryland's University College to evaluate the effectiveness of computer studies faculty. The student ratings of these faculty members were compared with the ratings given to mathematics faculty and to all other faculty teaching that term. On all three evaluation criteria (i.e., encourages…

An onsite study of two major program areas (faculty development and curriculum revision) in a national sample of 11 Dean's Grant Program projects sought to increase understanding of how academic innovation and change occur in higher education, and the processes for effectively managing change. Case study methodology was used, and data were…

This paper recommends the creation of a position of research coordinator by expanding the role of faculty liaison within colleges and universities to help bring services generally provided by special libraries to academic researchers. Reasons given for academic institutions to create such a position include the practicability of applying new…

Teams of elementary teachers, school administrators, and school board members from seven representative school districts in Los Angeles County (California) participated in a 3-week summer institute (1983) with the aim of learning to plan and implement systematic discipline-based art programs that included aesthetic, critical, historical, and…

We present a fundamentally new coding procedure and a two-dimensional Curriculum Tool that reclassifies culturally diverse storybooks for the purpose of teaching cultural understanding. The reclassification results in 9 "cultural voices"--the joining of a book theme and its complexity of cultural content--used as the basis of various…

The clinic process might best be characterized as a systematic interchange between an outside observer (a teaching consultant) and a faculty client for the purpose of identifying and improving teaching strengths and weaknesses. This guide to the clinic process presents materials grouped according to the stage of the teaching improvement process in…

The increasing number of part-time faculty, especially in university speech communication departments, appears to provide vital continuity in professional development. There are three kinds of part-time faculty: those with new doctoral degrees who want to teach full time but who cannot find appointments, those who are still active or semiactive…

The role of advisors at Washington West Resource Center (Vermont) is described in this report as providing professional and personal support to teachers. Advisors and teachers in this program work together on such topics as curriculum development and implementation, classroom organization, specific skills development, materials and acquisitions,…

The papers in this collection were originally developed for use in Further Education Staff College (England) conferences for senior staff in further education establishments. (Further education is similar to American adult education.) The process of curriculum development in further education is viewed as operating at levels associated with the…