Employment law is a "must-cover" subject in business environment courses. Comparing the plethora of topics requiring coverage with the limited time devoted to employment law during a typical academic term, other important employment subjects--such as negotiation and collective bargaining--commonly receive short shrift. This article offers a…

This paper provides a case study of the use of language objectives within a newly developed English language teacher education programme in Hong Kong. The programme development team decided to adopt a content-based language teaching approach to support students' second language development through content learning. The teacher education programme…

As universities move towards more vocationally oriented courses, students expect pedagogic practices that make closer ties to potential workplaces. The pedagogical approach of authentic learning is well suited to this purpose as it proposes an apprenticeship-type model and a model that brings simulated work tasks into the classroom. In the social…

This paper employs a three-step process to analyze three empirically supported strategies for teaching statistics to BSW students. The strategies included: repetition, immediate feedback, and use of original data. First, each strategy is addressed through the literature. Second, the application of employing each of the strategies over the period…

This paper revisits a successful short-course in academic literacy that was conducted for 50 "disadvantaged" students enrolled in the first year of an education degree at an Australian regional university (see Hirst, Henderson, Allan, Bode & Kocatepe, 2004). Based on a sociocultural approach to learning and drawing on a…

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards recommend that students go beyond memorizing and applying formulas to applying procedures. Students should not only understand mathematics, but also be able to do mathematics. The Core-Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP) is a comprehensive curriculum development project that develops…

Describes a module in the general social work practice sequence at the University of Hawaii School of Social Work that offers students an opportunity to develop both a skill and a knowledge base, as well as an exploration of their own personal experiences with--and reactions to--death. (Editor/JT)

A dozen articles in this inset deal with different aspects of an approach to language teaching just now attracting increasing interest. (Editor)

A criminal activities checklist is presented for the classroom which can aid in discussing criminal statistics, definitions of crime, and other aspects of criminology. (Author/DE)

Gives the results of an investigation carried out at the integrated Gesamtschule (a school with grades 1-13) of Braunschweig-West, on teaching-oriented flexible external differentiation with the textbook "English for a Start" (Lensing, Dortmund). The basic principle of the model is that the pupils remain in heterogeneous groups. (Text is in…

This introductory psychology course consisting of 16 contemporary films available at each student's convenience; readings; discussion sessions; and laboratory experience, assisted by upper-division psychology students, is an attempt to minimize some of the problems of the usual introductory lecture course. (JH)

A college chemistry course for nonchemistry majors that uses analysis of food as a starting point for the study of elementary chemistry is described and discussed. (DT)

Teaching a course in clinical psychology so as to foster development of problem solving skills, attitudes and behaviors such as autonomy and independent thinking is reported. (Editor/PG)

An introductory course in technology was added to the basic curriculum of the Open University in order to emphasize the creative activity of design and to understand complex systems such as the environment or an industry. ( author/KM)