Examines the process of resonance through an examination of the experiences shared by four preservice teachers. The role of experiential storytelling, and the connection of specific items in current or past experiences to a narrative of their own or someone else's experience are discussed. (MAK)

Instructors and trainers are increasingly using online education and technology-mediated learning (TML) to supplement or replace traditional approaches to classroom teaching. Because mandatory involvement requirements may not intrinsically motivate learners to achieve high quality learning, social factors with commitment, such as identification…

This qualitative case study examines the relationship of teachers who mentor other teachers. We studied 125 autobiographical portfolios submitted by elementary and secondary teachers who had won awards as outstanding educators from their campuses and were competing at the district level. The research site was a midsize city (population 95,000) in…

A metaphor to guide our understanding of classroom community is weaving, where each individual strand (shared leadership, communication, responsiveness, moral unity, cooperation, shared environment and history, identification/involvement, wholeness, and interdependence) interacts with others to form an integrated whole. A classroom comprises…

Summarizes a study of 42 preschoolers that focused on children's capabilities for nonviolent conflict resolution and sharing behaviors. The subjects were somewhat flexible at modifying their egocentricity in "giving-in-sharing" in an environment fostering reciprocity (justice) and security. (19 references) (MLH)

Most educators are lifelong learners, but too few seize opportunities to share their passions, interests, and knowledge with their students. To honor lifelong learners, schools can carve out a staff retreat with well-stocked bookshelves, create a database of experts on all topics, celebrate unusual holidays and little-known world events, and hold…

Collaboration is a ubiquitous term that has been defined in numerous ways across diverse fields. This paper draws on information from these diverse fields to begin to develop a theory of collaboration within library science for teachers and library media specialists. In order to fully understand the meaning of collaboration and the relationship…

Everyone knows how important it is to read to young children--but it is the "quality" of shared reading that really affects emergent literacy. How well are adults engaging and teaching children as they read together? How well are children listening and responding? The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions…

According to John Thompson, Web 2.0 is here. Having moved away from its roots in a read-only medium, the Internet is now a place where any and all users can create, upload, and transform information. A crucial consideration for Thompson is how this technological transformation will affect the pedagogical practices of institutions of higher…

Too often, academic mentoring of young faculty is seen as an individual responsibility; further, advice and help are believed to flow in only one direction--from the older to the younger faculty member. In many institutions, each junior faculty member is paired with a senior faculty member, but this type of arrangement is often fraught with…

On 2 consecutive days, a total of 96 children were observed in groups of 3, once with scarce and once with ample toy resources. Sharing was affected by the number of toys and availability of duplicate toys. When pressured by peers, one year olds shared more often than did two year olds. (BC)

Compared the nature of conflict and its resolution during free-play among preschool children with and without disabilities. Results indicated conflict occurred relatively infrequently and was of short duration. Disabled children tended to have more object possession disputes than other disputes; nondisabled children had more disputes during…

Married veterinarians were surveyed about work satisfaction, work-related stress, marital-family stress, and spousal support for their career. Female veterinarians reported greater effect of martial/family stress on career and less perceived support than did their male counterparts. Areas of greatest work dissatisfaction for both genders were…

Feminist therapy has revolutionized clinical practice and offered a model of empowerment for all therapy approaches. However, the long-assumed claim that feminist therapists are more likely to engage in power-sharing behaviors with their clients has not been supported by published quantitative research. In the current study, 42 female therapists…

This paper describes a new digital technology to support emotional self-awareness and empathy, called G.I.R.L.S (Girls Involved in Real Life Sharing). The system invited users to reflect actively upon and interact with a dialogue about how the story made them feel through the construction of pictorial narratives. In a pilot study with teenage…