The May 2001 regional seminar on "Teaching Materials: Controversial and Sensitive Issues, Multiperspectivity," held in Ohrid, was included in the Stability Pact, with financing from Austria and Switzerland. It was the first regional teacher training seminar in this region. The seminar reviewed controversial and sensitive issues in…

What should the curriculum of a graduate program that focuses on education, technology, and society be? What would be the proper balance of skills, theory, and concepts? What should be the difference between such a program in the School of Education and a computer science program? What do students expect of such a program? These were questions…

At Syracuse University (New York), Writing 205 offers students an introduction to the principles of rhetoric and the concept of disciplinary discourse. The study of landscape and place serves as a conduit for students to explore design, intention, and audience--a rhetoric of place--in order to develop a comprehension which is then easily…

The content and objectives of the Pacesetter Spanish course, developed by the College Board, are compared with those of the "National Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century," published in 1996 and are generally adopted by the foreign language teaching community. The comparison begins with the…

Training in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention is lacking in most counseling psychology training programs despite the likelihood of trainees encountering suicidal individuals in their careers. Part of the reluctance to address this issue may be due to the potential problems of incorporating training into existing counseling programs…

XML, the extensible markup language, is a quickly evolving technology that presents a viable alternative to courseware products and promises to ease the burden of Web authors, who edit their course pages directly. XML uses tags to label kinds of contents, rather than format information. The use of XML enables faculty to focus on providing…

This study focused on things learned from teaching doctoral students (17 doctoral and 2 masters students) about qualitative analytic strategies. Researchers used a grounded theory approach while simultaneously drawing from literature related to adult learning theories, doctoral student training, and curricula development, all of which informed…

The past decade has seen an increase in public awareness about the need to commit more resources to aid students in their transitions from school to work, but most high school career counselors have responsibilities which preclude them from spending time on individual career counseling. This paper describes a project designed to determine if a…

Library classification at the Croatian library school of the Department of Information Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia) has an important place in the department's curriculum. This is due to the fact that classification is the most important indexing language in Croatian libraries and documentation centers and services, and its role has not…

This paper describes a qualitative research that used small group discussion activities centered in biotechnology and genetics controversies as a contribution to the promotion of students' thinking tools. Students' written conclusions and reflections about the activities, teachers' interviews, participant observation of the classes, and their…

The exercises prepared for and organized by the Education Commission for the States are investigated in order to determine their content validity and to determine if the exercises as developed are to be used as models by teachers in developing their own evaluation questions. (Author/KM)

A course has been developed in Britain, and also tried in the U.S.A. and Canada, referred to as Modern Management Dynamics. It is a personneldevelopment and training course using pre-test, post-test questionnaires to measure and develop the extent of psychological knowledge of personnel in industrial, commercial and government work. (DS)

Paper presented at the Modern Language Teachers Association of South Australia Seminar, September 1972. (DD)

Reports the results of a study to determine the extent and content of courses in biological literature offered to graduate students in American universities. (JR)

Argues for an increased emphasis on teaching the history of science in secondary school science courses. A greater understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise in the past should make students more aware of the interrelationships of science and society. (JR)