Transferable skills ostensibly useful for employment need not limit education to narrow vocational goals. Such skills could be applied equally to other meaningful and socially useful work, restoring the liberal values of adult education. (SK)

The Teaching Goals Inventory was completed by 336 of 484 part-time faculty from a research university, public college, college serving working adults, and community college. Teaching goals varied by type of institution, discipline, gender, quantitative/qualitative nature of the course, and course level. Differences also appeared in comparison to…

It took years of jobs, failed attempts at college, drug rehabilitation, and a jail sentence before Jason Dillingham found a career pathway. His high school education was a jumble of minimum requirements. Like nearly three-fourths of high school graduates, he wandered through on the "general track" without a specific goal. (Author/JOW)

Proposes a re-evaluation of the activity of teacher-in-role. Notes that the word "theatre" now encompasses a range of practices, including classroom drama. Argues that with a broader concept of acting emerging in theatre and performance, it is difficult to maintain notions of teacher-in-role as director and playwright, but not actor. (PM)

Notes that in the popular imagination, theatre is still linked integrally and stereotypically with homosexuality. Discusses various critical debates of the 1960s about the linguistic and conceptual divorce of theatre and theatricality from performance and performativity. Concludes that if Theatre Studies has an enemy at all, it is in its own…

The priorities regarding extracurricular activities are seriously distorted. For example, yearbooks, like sports, are becoming too expensive, time consuming, and mere public relations tools. Education and student enjoyment should be the first priorities for extracurricular activities. (SK)

Describes a study of college students that examined the instructional effectiveness of four text design strategies based on prescriptions derived from different perspectives: the Generic text approach, the Behaviorist-based approach, the Cognitivist-based approach, and the SOI (Structure of Intellect) Constructivist-based approach, on the…

Describes a new taxonomy of liberal and professional learning--a Table of Learning--that creates a system for classifying the kinds of learning faculty seek for their students, and also serves as a stimulus for the design and evaluation of education. (EV)

Examines the fidelity of problem-solving implementation by multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) in 227 schools and the relationship to student outcomes. Ratings of student goal attainment indicated positive student change during problem-solving implementation. Statistically significant but modest correlation coefficients were demonstrated between…

Discusses instructional development for human resource development and performance improvement programs that optimize business results. Identifies and defines five key variables: instructional approach, learner role, learning objective, intended outcome, and expected behavior; that can inform the most relevant instructional methods to create a…

Maintains that pedagogical practice must take into account the principles of moral philosophy. Claims that current pedagogical research on ethics is determined by the teleological and deontological paradigms associated with Aristotle and Kant respectively. Discusses these two paradigms and their relationship to educational practice. (RW)

Nietzche is presented as a counternihilistic philosopher-educator who explored cultural conditions and ways of life that could lift man to higher modes of existence. Three pedagogical dimensions of Nietzsche's work are explored: recovery of health and worth as education's aim, endorsement of holistic education, harmonious combination of themes and…

Describes an early intervention project set up in day care centers for 85 children aged three to five years with and without special needs. The project was based on objectives which would ensure the choice of structured interventions and suit them to individual needs. Intervention effects are considered positive on a short term basis. Text in…

Argues that the Allan Blooms of the right and the Harold Blooms of the left are equally culpable for inculcating and perpetuating a pedagogical psychopathology which edifies (or brutalizes) students and teachers "for their own good," and creating an air of rarefied mystification surrounding language use and interpretation. (RS)

Critiques the views of Alfred Snider and Richard Edwards, who defend simultaneous advocacy of utopian and policy claims and promote utopian gaming. Argues that conceptions of debate theory promoting utopian advocacy are uneducational. Claims that fiat theory should be restricted to assumptions grounded in real world policy making processes. (MM)