Study abroad's purpose, once conceived primarily as a means for acquiring knowledge in a content area as well as language acquisition, began in the 1980s to be considered a vehicle for helping American students become less "parochial" and better prepared to live and work in a globalized world. To achieve these goals, students must be…

Explores the importance of college student attitudes towards the social-humanities disciplines. States it is necessary to: (1) improve the status of the social-humanities sciences; (2) teach the social-humanities; (3) change the social-humanities paradigms for content and target orientations; and (4) improve the teaching methodology for…

Focuses on the self-education of teachers in Russia and addresses topics such as the personalities, characteristics, and qualities of teachers. Explores the productive stages of the autopedagogical competence of schoolteachers by focusing on the value attitude of teachers toward professionalism. (CMK)

Discusses the structure and content of economic education at the higher education level focusing on topics such as Kursk College of Trade and Economics, the components of the new content of economic education, the inclusion of personal computers, and upgrading qualifications of teachers. (CMK)

Explores the pedagogical training of teachers for night-enrollment secondary schools. Focuses on the conception of the methodological service, permanently functioning theoretical seminars, teachers' self-education and self-development, and the practical application of the acquired knowledge, specifically the teachers' expertise related to the…

Identifies factors that account for the necessity of regionalization and constitute the basis of the process of regionalization. Describes the vision of educational space that determines the three stages of regionalization of the content of Russian education. States that educational regionalization in Sverdlovsk Oblast (region) is approaching the…

Explains that every school system faces the challenge of how to manage staff more effectively, introducing several articles that focus on whether: large-city school systems are more bureaucratic, a system of family school choice is more efficient or effective, tuition is an answer to a reduction in public education finance, and there are common…

Summarizes a survey of over 500 teachers throughout four regions of Russia. Discovers that most teachers feel their skills and development are lacking, particularly in the areas of innovative teaching methods. Outlines a system of steps and goals to be implemented throughout teacher education to rectify this deficiency. (MJP)