Presents a dialogue among three student coresearchers who participated in a longitudinal research project about their motivation to learn. The dialogue highlights what it meant to them to have a voice, what was involved in having a voice, how to improve the process, and how they felt about being coresearchers. (SM)

G. Wayne Clough, Georgia Institute of Technology's new president and an alumnus, sees in his own college experience some clues to student well-being and success. He gives diversity and multiculturalism high priority, and student financial and general funding are also major concerns. (MSE)

Attempts to assist teachers in helping students navigate the breaches that occur when what is learned at school is diametrically opposed to the values the student learns at home or in the community, particularly when those values inhibit language acquisition. (KEH)

Classroom Research is a model which involves college teachers of all disciplines in systematic observation and collection of data about their teaching impact. This model, integrating research into everyday teaching and focusing on what works in the immediate classroom, suggests practical ways for instructors to obtain timely and regular feedback…

The paper discusses the educational aim of fostering the child's development as an autonomous individual and a responsible member of society. It stresses the value of direct experience with stimuli accessible in the child's immediate environment. Planning and a clear purpose are encouraged for successful environmental forays. (DB)

Pulls apart the artificial separation between that which is scientific and the personal, thus providing meaningful context for the science classroom. Often discourse about girls and science has focused on how we can fix girls so that they can fit into the science classroom. Instead, the goals of science education must be reconstructed to include…

A model based on the immigrant's experience is proposed to explain the social and psychological dimensions of the student's transition from high school to college. The freshman-year experience is viewed as a process of resocialization to a new cultural environment involving culture shock, new language learning, and internalization of academic,…

A teacher intern in New South Wales (Australia) describes her experiences as a student in a small rural school, how early experience with distance education and independent learning was beneficial at university, teaching practicums in two rural schools, and her internship in a rural Aboriginal school. (SV)

This article has at its centre the project, discourses and practices of modernization and what these mean practically and existentially for schools. The author argues that schools are, at their core, relational organizations, therefore they are primarily concerned with creating the set of relational resources and conditions that enable learning to…

In this article, the author discusses how the matter of civil rights, and in particular the treatment of black people at the hands of white people, was conveyed to him most powerfully by three men of Harvard. The first was his high school headmaster, Herbert W. Smith, who introduced their class to the horrors of apartheid through the writings of…

One special difficulty in teaching world geography is overcoming the scale differential between individual students' direct experiences and the immense size and complexity of the world. An innovative framework of operational principles, or maxims, has been suggested, and an application of the framework is described. Students search out examples in…

This article provides a rationale for using literature in the classroom to explore conceptions of curriculum and teaching. We discuss a number of exemplars from children's and young adult fiction, both mainstream and less well known; offer a taxonomy for categorizing the range of visions of curriculum and teaching in the literature; and describe…

The author is a Mohawk scholar who has taught in academic institutions for around eleven years. This article will explain how he believes the discipline of Native studies has been co-opted by mostly white academics and Native scholars who reflect a Euroamerican worldview in their teaching and how that has affected him as a Native academic. The…

A study was conducted of graduates of an associate degree nursing program at a community college to explore issues related to early professional socialization in beginning nursing practice and to determine the influences of mentoring relationships on professional socialization. Focus group interviews were conducted with a sample of 31 graduates…

The fact that a writer's culture influences the composing style is undeniable. Spanish speakers writing in English often allow their points to "leap around," perhaps constituting a pattern the instructor does not see. In "Beyond Culture," Edward Hall explains that cultures operate under either "monochronic" or…