Asserts that the strong tradition of collaboration in early childhood provides a foundation on which to build in adopting critical stances to researching early childhood practices. Suggests that critical collaborative relationships provide supportive and potentially productive sites for examining structures and assumptions underpinning practices,…

Presents a case study of the ideology, strategies and process of the "Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh" project in its attempt at school reform in an urban school district. Reflects on the project's activities, and uses its experience to develop a conceptual framework based on chaos theory, as developed in mathematics and science, for discussing…

Describes Meridian Academy, a small alternative high school for dropouts and potential dropouts near Boise, Idaho. Discusses the school's family-like supportive environment, teaching strategies that emphasize student projects and active learning, and discipline policies and practices. Sidebar presents a Meridian Academy teacher who was once an…

Traces the rise of creative music making in schools in the United Kingdom through the history of a subject association, Musical Education of the Under-Twelves. Focuses on the progressive ideas voiced at conferences that linked child-centered notions to musical creativity and provides an account of the practical models presented. (CMK)

Presents an interview with James O. Horton, a professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University and the Director of the Afro-American Communities Project at the National Museum of American History. Focuses on topics such as why Horton became a history teacher, favorite courses to teach, and most memorable and worst teaching…

Contends that world history should be taught as "Big History," a view that includes all space and time beginning with the Big Bang. Discusses five "Cardinal Questions" that serve as a course structure and address the following concepts: perspectives, diversity, change and continuity, interdependence, and causes. (CMK)

Describes the experience of integrating technology with lesson designs through a laboratory of five computers within the classroom. Relates the progression of this experience in three phases, from intellectual resistance to classroom adaptation to critical advocacy. Provides recommendations and lists the initial findings of the laboratory…

Discusses federal art projects during the New Deal, providing information on Edgar Britton and the influence of being a New Deal artist on his later work. Discusses the use of Britton's murals, housed at Highland Park High School (Chicago), in the curriculum. Comments on today's public art. (CMK)

Examines the ways in which authority and power operate in the classroom. Uses two metaphors to describe the poles of classroom dynamics (the love-relationship and the battlefield model). Suggests that the processes of writing and reading as interpretation and discovery can act as a more suggestive instructional model. (CMK)

Addresses the ease with which teachers in subjects other than art incorporate design into their curricula. Considers the nature of design knowledge. Examines three of the visual arts standards from National Standards for Arts Education as a means for revealing the distance between art and design education. Offers four recommendations for art…

Argues that education under the Khmer Rouge must be examined within the context of the ideology that underpinned the Communist regime and the policies and practices that emanated from that ideology. Explains that the Khmer Rouge attempted to rebuild education within the context of their ideological commitment to self-reliance. (CMK)

Explores the pedagogical training of teachers for night-enrollment secondary schools. Focuses on the conception of the methodological service, permanently functioning theoretical seminars, teachers' self-education and self-development, and the practical application of the acquired knowledge, specifically the teachers' expertise related to the…

Concentrates on longer-established efforts made in Wales to use the Internet as a gateway for opportunities for adult learners. Focusing on a Web-based Welsh language program over a 12-month period, this paper empirically examines the role of the Internet in providing effective access procedures to adult learning and examines who such methods are…

Reports results of a survey conducted to determine perceptions of the barriers to distance education. Sixty-four barriers were determined from a review of the literature and clustered into the following 10 factors, based on survey responses: administrative structure; organizational change; technical expertise; social interaction and quality;…

From a systemic reform perspective, this article examines risk and resilience research and its application in education, describing: application of the risk-factor model and its effects in education; resilience research and its educational application as a novel alternative to risk-based approaches; and how socio-political adherence to the…