Updates the "MLA Guide to the Job Search" through conversations and correspondence with graduate students, former graduate students, and Associations of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) and ADE job counselors and through a 1996 survey of ADFL job counselors. Presents advice from these individuals on what paths graduate students in foreign…

A recent Ford Foundation national survey found that 71% of Americans think diversity education does more to bring Americans together than drive them apart. Two-thirds felt colleges and universities should take explicit steps to ensure student body diversity; three-fourths want to ensure faculty diversity. Only 38% feel diversity is an excuse to…

Examines cultural perspectives of educational administration students and selected faculty at a midwestern university college of education. Two distinct cultures developed: a vocational culture composed of part-time doctoral students and education faculty and an academic culture composed of instructors of professional common-core subjects.…

Identifies 11 types of graduate student difficulties and suggests methods to help alleviate them. Difficulties include language barriers, cultural barriers, emotional barriers, lack of commitment, and lack of ability. Also describes certain personality traits that may impede achievement. (AIM)

Describes science educators trying to effect systemic change as actors in a cultural field struggling to change it. Uses a conversational hermeneutic analysis of autobiographical writings to examine some of the salient features of bringing about change in science education. (Contains 35 references.) (Author/WRM)

Reports on findings from a survey exploring the information literacy of physical science graduate students. Describes the students' perceptions of the physical and psychological components that enhance or detract from their ability to find, appraise, and use information and how they feel during the various stages of an information search.…

Structured narrative has grown out of the tradition that uses writing in counseling. This article presents the theory and practice that underlie a structured narrative writing intervention, "A Write Way," used to orient and help students develop more effective learning stories during their transition into high school. It can be adapted to…

A study examined the teaming efforts of a master-level, preservice, transdisciplinary team as reflected in a conversation during a planning meeting. The use of problem solving, conflict avoidance, role expansion, and role release techniques are described. Implications are discussed for intervention teams in the schools and preservice preparation…

Addresses the need for teaching gender-neutral English in the Indian context, and shares the mixed response of undergraduate science students in a functional English course. (Author/VWL)

Describes how a Canadian college professor uses WebCT to provide a highly interactive Internet seminar for international graduate students. The virtual seminar acts as a resource and supplement to a regular graduate course on second language methodology for teachers. Examines the WebCT bulletin board and the enhanced interactivity it allows,…

Develops a proposal for learning from the differences that are present in the milieu of postgraduate programs based on a participative design. Using examples of students' and teachers' experiences with difference, it describes the "classroom as real world" as a basis for understanding differences. Explores tensions teachers may encounter…

Discusses a recent pedagogical experience of using the U.S.-based English for academic purposes textbook "Academic Writing for Graduate Students" in the Ukrainian classroom. Focus is on the intellectual and emotional reactions of the students toward a quite new kind of textbook and corresponding course. (Author/VWL)

Canadian women's university participation rate doubled from 10% to 20% between 1975 and 1992 (although it has remained relatively stable since then) (Mandel & Berkowitz, 1999). Women currently make up the majority of full-time students in Canadian universities. Statistics from 1996 indicate women made up 50% of those with a Bachelor's or first…

This paper reports a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese physics students' understanding of subatomic phenomena that are explained by quantum mechanics. The study uses students' explanations of their answers to items in a questionnaire as a proxy for students' thinking. The variation in students' explanations is discussed as is the development in…

Introduction: Having a mentor during residency is often linked to greater success in professional development. The present study compares changes in the percentage of residents with mentors in 1999 and in 2004, while considering current residents' perceptions of their mentors, with particular attention focused on what role race and gender might…