Engagement in the arts nurtures the development of cognitive, social, and personal competencies. When well taught, the arts provide young children with authentic learning experiences that engage their minds. To get children to think critically, teachers ought to become comfortable with the problem-solving process themselves. This article…

Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate the rationale for connecting enterprise education with employability and career development in the design of curricula and learning experiences within UK higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reflects on the experiences of practitioners, including the author, in embedding enterprise…

This article describes the "Stolen Voices" project which developed through detailed discussions with local education authorities and teachers in boroughs across London, UK. These educators and specialists were eloquent in their desire for projects that supplement the curriculum and classroom work on human rights and global citizenship,…

This article discusses what the author views as exemplary work illustrating important directions in research on the applications of Bandura's self-efficacy theory to career theory, assessment, and counseling. The author begins with research on measuring career self-efficacy, following which research testing the postulated behavioral consequences…

This study investigates how portfolios support pre-service teachers' learning to teach. The findings revealed that the portfolio provides pre-service teachers with productive learning experiences which help them develop their "library use, knowledge, skills, attitudes, personal traits, motivation to learn, interpersonal relationships"…

In mathematics instruction, can a teacher implement surface features of instruction that foster self-regulated learning as well as achieve quality at the deeper level of instruction, that is, focus on higher-order thinking, problem-solving, and mathematical modeling? An educational reform effort in Switzerland, which is based on constructivist and…

With emphasis on developing competence in students, an activity-based learning environment, inspired by constructivist and situated learning theories, was piloted in the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) to improve student learning experience. The new learning environment, developed for a Lifeskills module (Career Development and Planning),…

The age at which one begins learning a second language (L2) has been shown to influence the rate of acquisition and ultimate proficiency in various aspects of that language. Less is understood about L2 acquisition for adolescents, particularly immigrants, and ways in which age on arrival (AoA) influences the circumstances in which they learn their…

Article outlined some of the issues with which schools must be prepared to deal if they hope to expand and enrich the action-learning components in an instructional program. (Author/RK)

The chairmen of the five study groups met to share contributions from their groups and to summarize their observations and recommendations. This article is a summary, somewhat abridged here. (Author/RK)

Discussed the expansion of perceptual learning and the thought processes that relate our ideas. (RK)

The central purpose of this paper is to call the attention of teachers to propaganda techniques and the criteria for critically evaluating printed matter in the hope that their awareness will lead to implementation of instructional strategies commensurate with the thinking levels of students in their charge. (Author/RK)

Article used Leaonard Bernstein's Mass as a guide in presenting a contemporary work to teach music concepts. (Editor/RK)

In order to meet the needs of youth and allow them to participate constructively in shaping society, alcohol education is a necessary and critical area in which society must exhibit direct, honest, and guiding concern. (Author/RK)