An operational definition of computer literacy for higher education is offered after reviewing various views concerning literacy and computer literacy. Some writers have specified levels of expertise beyond that of nonuser, ranging between the casual end-user and the programmer. Other definitions emphasize the computer as a tool and the importance…

Based on educational administration textbooks and on thesauri and dictionaries published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Bureau of Education (IBE), and other institutions, this document presents a trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) glossary of approximately 2,500 terms or…

Author considered the range of questions involved in aesthetic education focusing on the categorization of art works as carriers of meaning in the broadest sense, signs. (Author/RK)

Three-hundred kindergarten children were screened with a test battery in order to identify children at high-risk of experiencing learning disabilities. (Author/DB)

This article defended the position that schools represented bureaucratic organizations and described within them the teacher's role, defined the term inquiry, spelled out the implications and limitations which the bureaucracy placed on teacher-inquirers and dealt with a rationale for inquiry within these limits. (Author/RK)

Discussed the development of an art heritage program with the objective of accepting historical art as a daily experience of value. (Author/RK)

This article concentrates on the term movement education and discusses its evolving interpretations and their implications for other terms. (JS)

Article suggested examining alternatives to conventional programming while at the same time maintaining a more traditional program of art. (Author/RK)

In order to define words borrowed from other languages, dialects or varieties within a dialect, a synchronic definition, including the degree of integration into the borrowing language, is more useful and flexible than the traditional etymological approach. (Text is in German.) (TL)

Outreach can and should exemplify the characteristics typical of any scholarly work if it is to create change in our communities and universities. Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff's insight on the standards for scholarly work are reflected in the processes commonly used to implement outreach. Boyer challenges us to think of scholarship as a communal…

Article considered how seriously OD is being evaluated as a tool to be integrated into school systems and how effective it is when applied to educational systems. (Author/RK)

Emphasizes the need for improved evaluation of community education efforts. Outlines a conceptual framework for program evaluation and offers an operational definition of evaluation to serve as a guide for organizing and conducting evaluation of community education programs. (JG)

In this column, the term "pragmatics", a part of linguistic analysis, is explained. The study of pragmatics concerns language usage in natural context. The item of analysis is not the sentence, but the utterance of the sentence in a particular well-defined set of contexts. (SW)