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Download full textKorn, Jessica – 1991
This essay makes an argument for bringing a feminist perspective to pedagogy in higher education. The paper opens by reviewing the history of gender roles, relations, and perceptions in society before the industrial revolution. Subsequent sections describe women's participation in academia and develop a description of feminist pedagogy. Feminist…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Departments, Economic Factors, Females
McCune, Shirley – 1984
This paper presents guidelines for maintaining and extending educational opportunities in a society which is changing rapidly from one based on industry to one based on information and discusses the problems involved. Education, it is argued, must be restructured, the role of state policy and decision makers must be reconsidered, and a new set of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedVanOstenburg, Paul R. – Journal of Dental Education, 1983
Issues in postdoctoral dental education and distinctions between the general practice residency and the advanced education program in general dentistry include: the need for practitioners and further specialization in the work force, society's health care needs, and changes in the health care industry, dental education, dental departments, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Dental Schools, Departments, Educational Change
Peer reviewedHunter, Beverly – Education and Computing, 1987
Discusses curriculum changes needed in elementary and secondary schools in response to broader social change involved in the information revolution. Highlights include the role of federal, state, and local agencies, private industry initiatives, the role of technology, and the importance of problem solving skills. Twenty-five references are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Technology
Sledd, James – 1988
Teachers should first realize that their assigned role (according to society's decision-makers) is to produce a brainwashed work force which does not question the prevailing culture. Then they should take action to reject this role. As Michael Holzman put it, "We should stop doing harm if we can help it." Many "compositionists"…
Descriptors: Educational Discrimination, English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1979
The Bi-Regional Educational Improvement Forum in Atlanta, Georgia (November 1979) considered three areas of school improvement, including State Department of Education (SEA) delivery systems and the use of technology to improve schooling. The three forum articles concerned with delivery systems treat the transformation of policies emanating from…
Descriptors: Computers, Delivery Systems, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
