Lucy Green's latest book, "Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy" (Green, 2008) posits that the learning taking place among popular musicians, developed out of a need to create and perform pieces of music, and found "everywhere in everyday life" rather than in the formalised settings of the majority…

The major focus of the paper is devoted to describing a five-year study of the initial implementation of a nationally adopted integrated curriculum course as it was implemented in one university teacher education programme in Indonesia and, subsequently, the challenges faced in developing a field-based course that built on the university course.…

Discusses the value of preservice language teachers participating in in-country experiences. Looks at how a group of Tasmanian preservice teachers dealt with cultural differences during the school experience and rural homestay in Indonesia. Suggests ways that future groups can learn to cope when encountering cultural mismatch. (Author/VWL)

An acute problem in developing nations is that of furnishing appropriate reading materials, including those for teacher education programs. The paper describes seven efforts to produce teacher education reading materials at a reasonable cost and suited to local needs for preservice teacher education in Indonesia. (SM)