As role models, mentors serve as moral exemplars to their proteges. Yet, since the mentoring literature gives scant attention to the mentor's role in protege moral education, mentors are largely unwitting participants in this process. Grounded in research from moral psychology and philosophy, this article provides guidance to mentors who want to…

Engaging in a self-study is a multi-faceted activity that involves not only autobiography and theory, but also students and colleagues. Learning from and with colleagues can take many forms. This article discusses the authors' experience with reciprocal classroom observation in a teacher education context. Peer observation supported our learning…

As a rhetorical figure, the example is constitutively split between the structural vocations of the Greek "paradeigma" (emphasizing illumination and belonging) and the Latin "exemplum" (emphasizing detachment and exclusion). This bifurcation enables the example to function as a strategic resource of ambiguity. Christine de…

The aim of this paper is to discuss whether "social competence" is necessary for engineers to contribute to sustainable development and if it is, how to teach communication, group-processes and leadership in technical environments like engineering education programmes. The article reflects on a pedagogical project carried out in the…

Access to higher education in America is increasingly becoming a privilege for upper-class youth. On the other hand, youth in lower socioeconomic groups have less access and are increasingly marginalized and less able to compete in the college choice arena. While parental involvement is one way to fight against this unfortunate trend, parents of…

This paper is based on an investigation into the dynamics of masculinity in two male elementary school teachers' lives. It draws on a poststructuralist approach to empirical analysis that is informed by Sondergaard who argues for the need to attend to the "constitution of social practices and cultural patterns" through which subjects…

Supports the study of the lives of notable personages from the past and their aspirations and achievements to provide role models and help students recognize when they are making value judgments. Uses a 16th-century mystic and saint, Teresa of Avila, as an example applicable to contemporary educational concerns. (DMM)

In order to promote adolescent health, the author explains, we need to have a clear idea of what health we want to promote, to allow some of our basic assumptions to be challenged, and to place our work in the wider context of a just society. (MT)

Examined cigarette smoking among health educators, their views about the effects of this behavior upon their audiences and beliefs about smoking in light of their professional role. Smokers and nonsmokers were significantly less included than former smokers to feel the role of health education is to convince people not to smoke. (Author/ABL)

Practical implications are drawn from an examination of K. Jaspers' existential philosophy and his view of the university's proper function. (GW)

The authors discuss the qualities possessed by a model change agent and roles played by him as resident technical participant: analyst, advisor, advocate, systems linker, innovator, and trainer. Besides presenting the teaching plan for change agents, the authors call upon their Peace Corps experiences to provide specific examples of what is…

An account of group discussions with 12 blind and visually impaired successful women emphasizes the importance of role models in the motivation to achieve. (Author/CL)

A mother expresses her feelings regarding volunteering her daughter as a model child in a program for preschool handicapped children. She points out that her daughter's experiences in the program may, in the future, make her more understanding of handicapped persons. (SW)

The author proposes a role model for evaluators to be added to the numerous existing models. He presents the evaluator as an artist/painter/musician, suggesting that the evaluator's perception of an educational program's effectiveness can be expressed by a single "painting," rather than by a lengthy written report. (GDC)

A teacher reflects on a child of low achievement by school standards who had a talent for learning to live and a school janitor whose master curriculum was manifested in a faithful way of life. (SK)