THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE IF A 2-WEEK WORKSHOP IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY MODIFY THEIR TEACHING PRACTICES AND CONTENT EMPHASES. THE SPECIFIC HYPOTHESES CONCERNING HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS OF PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETING A 2-WEEK WORKSHOP IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WERE THAT THE TEACHERS WILL (1)…

This article explores the application of Paulo Freire's methodological concerns in a contemporary, educational, non-revolutionary setting. It is focused on a Peace Educators' Workshop that meets three times annually to explore peace education in secondary schools in the United States. This treatment of Freire was developed for a day-long workshop…

This paper presents Project InterActions, a series of 5-week workshops in which very young learners (4- to 7-year-old children) and their parents come together to build and program a personally meaningful robotic project in the context of a multigenerational robotics-based community of practice. The goal of these family workshops is to teach both…

The author offers some tips from his own experience on ways to streamline a week-end workshop into a one-day workshop; his emphasis is on determined scheduling: begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. and end promptly at 3:00 p.m. He suggests that a workshop should be well-planned, a business-like atmosphere should prevail, and something concrete and specific…

Forty-five teachers interested in science attended a NASA workshop and orientation program. (CK)

Ways and programs for teaching youngsters to understand both other people and themselves are described. (CK)

This article explores the concepts of Freire's "universal human ethic", Price and Shildrick's "becoming-in-the-world-with-others" and Foucault's "power in action". Although human relationships and behaviour may be regarded as intrinsic to most arts projects, the specific context of the Inter-Act project places the focus upon the very nature of…

The Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active! program is an engaging curriculum that helps young people understand the complex media world around them so they can make thoughtful decisions about issues important to their health, specifically nutrition and physical activity. This training guide was developed in response to the requests of…

This report details the outcome of the "Build capacity of ODL Practitioners in the area of Design, Development and the Management of Study Materials - Lesotho" workshop undertaken by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) from 25 August to 5 September 2005 in Maseru, Lesotho. The purpose of this training was to provide training to ODL…

One of the problems security professionals see in security is that there are few benchmarks to quantify the effectiveness of proactive security initiatives. This hurts them with funding support and also with ensuring community buy-in outside of crisis situations. The reactive nature of many institutions makes it difficult to move forward with…

This paper reports on one strand of a research project conducted with prominent writers who are also English teachers from around Australia. It asks what were the conditions which led these writers to come to writing and what conditions have they created in their own work with high school students that establish and promote an enabling pedagogy…

Faculty learning communities (FLCs) provide their members with both information and support as they move toward utilizing digital technology tools, learn new skills, and share meaningful instructional practices. This paper emerges from the initial year of an FLC established in a large urban research university with a focus on integrating digital…

Our peer-led collaborative learning groups, called Workshops, have now had extended success in two upper-level courses in chemistry and biochemistry. These Workshops are in turn supported by a third upper-level course for training peer-leaders. Our data confirm that the initial positive results from the introduction of Workshops in organic…

This article summarizes a few key results of a workshop, held in the University of California Berkeley in June 2006, organized by the Center for New Media and supported by Elsevier, the leading publisher of scholarly journals. The workshop focused on the following questions: How will scientific publishing be affected by New Media? How will the new…