Reviews Hermann Rohrs' and Volker Lenhart's, "Progressive Education Across the Continents: A Handbook." Focusing on the internationalism of progressive education, the book describes how the theory behind that movement has evolved over the last hundred years. Briefly critiques some chapters and articles in the book. (MJP)

Secondary special educators in several settings were surveyed to examine family life education in special education classrooms and special educators' preparation for teaching about sexuality. Results indicated that many had no preservice training in the area, but they did teach it and believed it was their responsibility to do so. (SM)

Examines the American prototype of proper balance between family and state in terms of their responsibility for the cultivation of potential in children, and contrasts it with an alternative European model. Proposes an agenda of comparative research that explores the relationship between state and kinship systems and the direct or indirect impact…

Criticizes the state of primary school music education in New South Wales. Paints a bleak picture of a school system lacking adequate facilities, resources, and teacher training, and burdened with an outdated curriculum. Reform movements initiated in the 1980s have failed to correct these deficiencies. (MJP)

Advocates including school-age children in community service programs as a way to give back to the community, build confidence, create a sense of power to make a difference, organize, solve problems, develop strategies, make decisions, and gain personal gratification. Includes guidelines for planning and ideas for community service projects. (SD)

Presents the results of an assessment of undergraduate courses and instruction-related services. Students answered a 148-item questionnaire concerning advising services, career services, departmental communications, research and field experiences, and departmental courses. Discusses the results and includes statistical tables of the collected…

Discusses the shift in thinking among the current generation of young Canadian Indians. Political attitudes have moved from an accommodating stance (Kiyam) to a more committed and confrontational position (Semac). Briefly addresses why some Indians prefer to stay on reservations. (MJP)

Challenges citizenship educators to be more cognizant of the social and communitarian aspects of democratic citizenship. Explores engagement with children's literature and development of a classroom creed as two ways to actively engage children in citizenship roles. Includes an interview with a participating teacher. (MJP)

Three case studies of organizational change and transformation are the basis for discussing leadership approaches used by professional school deans to promote and nurture change processes. The settings are schools of social work in three universities, each with a unique mission: serving the Catholic community; serving the African American…

The dean of a divinity school reflects that the dean's role is to move the center of a school to its heart, safeguarding, promoting, and capitalizing on the school's collective intellectual intelligence and reconciling it with the school's collective emotional intelligence. Creating a climate for growth in the current environment of contraction is…

Argues that too often liturgy and religious education posit an idyllic notion of the reign of God and fail to address the injustice, oppression, and violence endemic to much of modern life. This amounts to a dichotomy between the sacred and the secular. Proposes several corrective measures. (MJP)

Provides a mosaic of teachers' opinions on teaching literacy through social studies. All of the teachers interviewed felt a strong responsibility for improving their students' reading skills. Many of them revealed specific approaches and strategies for accomplishing this. (MJP)

Explores how a student service program can be implemented without a large staff and without cost, in large introductory sociology classes as part of an extra-credit project, while augmenting course material as an active learning component. Discusses a class that fits this description at North Dakota State University. (MJP)

Articulates a challenge for today's arts and science faculties to help prepare teacher candidates who are predominantly white and female to work in schools with increasingly diverse populations. Argues for a more culturally responsive curriculum and modeling culturally responsive teaching. (MJP)

Argues against teaching approaches that put moral pressure on students. Students should not be expected to make environmental behavioral changes beyond their power. Children often do not have the free will to respond to moral promptings. Suggests cross-curricular alliances of economics, environmental education, and citizenship education that place…