Examines the use of the concept "community" for describing experiments in education. Looks at the very different concepts which the Chinese use in discussing what they are doing, and at the experiments themselves, hoping that this will stimulate further critical discussion of the relation between concepts employed and educational…

The use of the terms "sensitivity, threshold, bias, and ratio scale" in psychophysics is discussed, with special reference to the statistical decision theory of sensory discrimination and its application to signal detection and classical psychophysical procedures. (Editor)

In order to compare and contrast the situations in which one ought to purchase materials and when one ought to produce materials in the environment of the single school, the basis of curriculum and instruction were examined. (Author/RK)

The author defines a number of the current terms used in education today. (HMV)

Argues that the criteria of beauty elaborated in Francis Kovach's recent work, "Philosophy Of Beauty," cannot be applied with success, and in consequence his theory suffers from an excess of traditionalism. (Author/RK)

Discusses the notion of explanatory adequacy with reference to a theory of generative phonology. An approach is suggested which defines the notion of possible processes based on natural language rules, rather than one which defines the notion of possible rules based on universal processes. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

Treatment of entitlement to an education as a privilege or a claim rather than a fundamental human right is criticized. (GW)

Many Americans with disabilities feel that a series of negative court decisions is reducing their status to that of "second-class citizens," a status that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was supposed to remedy forever. In this report, the National Council on Disability (NCD), which first proposed the enactment of an ADA and…

Home-schooling is growing in popularity. However, although it is legal for children to be educated at home, there are difficulties associated with defining what constitutes home-education, and who falls within the category of the "home-educated". (Contains 6 endnotes.) [This article has been published as: Rothermel, P. and Fiddy, A. (2001) "The…

This digest examines the definitions of outdoor, experiential, and environmental education and clarifies the boundaries and essential elements of each tradition. Early in its history, outdoor education was influenced by advocates of camping education and nature study. Today outdoor education includes outdoor experiences designed to meet objectives…

This monograph deals specifically with the challenge of recognizing or assessing creativity. It is intended for teachers, program coordinators, administrators, counselors, or researchers who are concerned with such questions as, "Can creativity be measured?" "What assessment tools are available to assist us in recognizing creativity in students?"…

The "Hamilton College community" (New York) is a term which appears to describe those who are students or staff of the college, who are bound by the close housing (set up on a hill, to be further separated), who share a common philosophy (wanting to learn or to teach), and who are familiar with many members of the "community."…

This paper proposes a conceptual framework of mentoring for the academic context that will begin to unravel the confusing and conflicting definitions of mentoring that limit dialogue across disciplinary contexts. Two analytical concepts are suggested as a way to designate the common relationships of role model, advisor, and mentor in academe and…

Recent lexicographical work, especially in dictionaries aimed at the Teaching English-as-a-foreign-language (TEFL) market, has tended towards a functional grouping of vocabulary items in thesaurus format, rather than the traditional alphabetical approach of dictionaries. One reason for this, stemming from a more communicative approach to language…

The purpose of this research paper is to look at the definition of academic freedom and how it has evolved over time. Canada's definition of academic freedom grew out of the influences of Britain, Germany, and the United States. The paper begins with a historic look at these three sources. It then focuses on the Canadian definition of academic…