Provides an overview of several current satellites-based instructional systems and assesses their potential role in rural education. Highlights include the Oklahoma Arts and Sciences Teleconferencing Service (ASTS); the Texas Interactive Instructional Network (TI-IN); Washington's Satellite Telecommunications Educational Programming (STEP);…

If Nietzsche's definition of truth means anything, it means that changes in what we do and in the way we think follow changes in the way we talk. All who aspire to positions of leadership must recognize the potentially enormous influence of inspiring redescriptions of the advancement of higher education. (MLW)

Any successful innovation creates a body of practice, policy, lore, and belief that becomes harder to change the longer it survives. Using case studies to illustrate, the essay outlines a conceptual model for institutional self-assessment of its innovative health and recommends strategies for keeping the innovative spirit alive. (Author/MLW)

Describes the efforts of the Undugu Basic Education schools that are designed to provide basic instruction to four slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya. Description is based on the information gathered by a research team from the Basic Education Resource Centre. Lists the objectives of these schools and discusses their organization and curricula. (KO)

Examines effects on Soviet education of ideas and teaching methods of Shatalov, Amonashvili, and others. Their ideas, focusing on cooperative relationships among teachers, students, and parents that create a successful learning environment and diminish students' fear of failure, have challenged the authority of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical…

The development of new courses and instructional modes help to meet the informational needs of a restructuring corporate sector. A university committed to facilitating technology transfer, exploring innovative ways of disseminating research, and promoting information exchange, gives new meaning to the mission of instruction, research, and public…

During the spring semester of 1987 a mathematician and a physicist from Oberlin College went with 21 undergraduates to London to use the resources of England as the basis for a course. The course is described, with emphasis on its experimental, experiential nature. (Author/MLW)

Discussed is changing from the lecture-and-demonstration approach to teaching which treats learning as primarily the transfer of information. The approach used in a school in New Jersey is described in detail. (MNS)

In a recent survey of outstanding school administrators, 70 middle-school administrators acknowledged the importance of student well-being, staff collegiality, higher expectations, innovative attitudes, school climate, risk-taking, professional activities, values, and institutional mission. The ability to facilitate others' growth and create a…

Great Britain's General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ) is an innovative further education program that is empowering students and outstripping enrollment projections. In 1992-93, GNVQ was piloted in five vocational areas: business, health and social care, leisure and tourism, art and design, and manufacturing. Under GNVQ, assessment by…

An innovative professional master's of continuing education program at the University of Calgary took five years to be established. It had to overcome differing views of faculty, the opposition of the dean of education, and other types of political and philosophical resistance. (SK)

The Rindge School's innovative curriculum is based on the following principles: the importance of academic knowledge in technical training; teaching of all aspects of an industry; student participation in community development projects; and interdisciplinary courses, career pathways, and internships. (SK)

Information technology courses are offered at 11 accessible locations for adults with disabilities in England's East Midlands. Some modules earn credit toward a university certificate. Many trainees have developed community businesses, enhanced self-esteem, and expanded career ambitions. (SK)

Twenty-five members of the Montessori community share their memories of Dr. Nancy McCormick Rambusch, charismatic founder of the American Montessori movement, early childhood professional, and innovative educator, who died of pancreatic cancer on October 27, 1994. Rambusch's work of 40 years now flowers as an institutionalized educational program…

The first part describes Project HIP-HOP (Highways into the Past: Organizing and Power), in which Boston students visited key sites of the civil rights movement and learned about nonviolence from participants. In the second part, a student describes what he learned about racism and activism. (SK)