This document sets forth standards of good practice for the employment of professional staff. These guidelines serve as a blueprint for the appropriate treatment of professional staff based on the principle that recognition and equity must be coupled with job security and professional treatment. This publication is divided into two sections: (1)…

This article offers a reflective view of five articles published in this Special Issue of the "International Journal of Disability, Development and Education." The 5 articles address various aspects of indigenous healing practices in different cultures. In distilling a number of pertinent themes, the author presents the view that…

Twenty-one essays describe the successful teaching strategies used by faculty who have been named "Teacher of the Year" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Essays are grouped into those which focus on: teaching characteristics, teaching practices, teaching philosophies, and teaching teachers. The essays are: (1)…

A study examined a number of sources regarding a growing trend against the importance of academic publishing, including various articles that have appeared in the popular and academic press both for and against the "publish or perish" mentality. The literature review was grounded in E. Boyer's 1990 report "Scholarship Reconsidered:…

Increased international business and technological advances that speed business communication are affecting the expectations that business has for translators. More companies are asking translation agencies to translate such items as English business letters, advertising campaigns, flyers, brochures, and technical manuals into other languages,…

The view of professionalism as a social strategy differs from conventional theories of professions that consider professionalism as an evolutionary trend. This paper considers the professionalization of progress and educational expertise among teacher educators and other education reformers in Iceland in the 1980s and 1990s. It focuses on the…

Educational, psychological and mental health, and medical computer databases were searched, and three occupational reference texts were examined, in an effort to identify the position of the child development specialist (CDS). Other objectives were to initiate a dialogue in the profession and among those who might value services of CDSs, and to…

This document reports on the 1991-92 Teacher Recognition Program honoring exceptional teachers from rural and small schools in the New England states, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The program was intended to enrich the quality of education in the Northeast United States and its Caribbean jurisdictions by sharing information about…

The purpose of the conference reported in this document was to provide for the interchange of ideas with a view to the development of effective cooperation and collaboration among interest groups in the field of inservice teacher education. The proceedings are organized into nine sections: (1) Introduction; (2) Conference Opening; (3) Keynote…

A task force was appointed to measure user satisfaction with library services, establish a university libraries' service excellence philosophy and policy, bring the service excellence concept to the attention of every library employee, and recommend approaches for recognizing outstanding staff service. The members of the task force--two library…

This paper describes a quantitative model that can be used to evaluate faculty performance for promotion decisions. Through the use of an evaluation form, the system (1) informs faculty members how they will be evaluated at the end of each academic year; (2) allows faculty growth to be documented in teaching, research, and other activities which…

Over the past decade educational researchers and curriculum evaluators have dealt with the deviation between a specified educational program and its actual implementation. These differences have been referred to as a critical problem in both the achievement and the evaluation of a program's goals. The research reported here has explored the…

This study replicated earlier state-wide studies of Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas teachers with a current sample of Alabama teachers. Data from a random sample of 196 teachers in the fall of 1988 revealed that more than one-third of the state's teachers are seriously considering leaving the profession. They cite inadequate pay as their major…

Focusing on the role of the educational developer, the 19 essays in this collection provide a forum for educational developer practitioners: (1) to share their practices and insights; (2) to explore what it means to be an educational developer and instructional designer, and to give some philosophical reflection of the role; and (3) to clarify the…

British psychologists have presented educational psychology as an academic discipline and have distanced themselves from practical teaching. Most have disavowed any particular knowledge about teaching and suggested that teachers themselves should discover the way academic concepts are applied to teaching. As students of human learning, educational…