The objective of this study was to identify and compare the personal and interpersonal values held by junior and senior college students in elementary and secondary education programs. Identification of the personal and interpersonal values of students was made through use of the Gordon Survey of Personal Values and the Gordon Survey of…

Describes a process used at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to select undergraduate students for acceptance into elementary teacher education. Candidates work in small groups to meet creative challenges that demonstrate the presence or absence of certain desired characteristics not reflected by standardized test scores or grade point…

The article proposes that teacher education programs learn from the oversights and misassumptions made by recent career education programs.

Undergraduate students in education are increasingly using post-structuralist theory and concepts in discussions of gender, but because of their lack of knowledge of structuralism, their use of post-structuralist theory is often confused. Discusses the work of Judith Butler in a critique of student confusion, particularly evident in student use of…

Analyzes A. Jones' exposition of the problems her students face in acquiring post-structuralist discourse and the aspects of that problem that Jones attributes to the writings of B. Davies. A focus is on the concept of the post-structuralist "subject." (SLD)

The College of Education at Texas Woman's University developed an undergraduate teacher preparation program with a specialization in reading for both elementary and secondary education majors. Graduate programs leading to both master's and doctor's degrees in reading are also available. A reading laboratory has been designed to accommodate…

This study evaluated the relative merits of the more rigid Basic Studies Program and the more flexible General Education Program in the College of Education at Temple University in terms of the academic achievement of students and scores on the National Teacher Examinations (NTE). The sample consisted of 503 students in the Basic Studies Program…

Three special field-based student teaching projects at Indiana University which include on-site course work are briefly described. Data are presented that indicate that education majors at the university: (a) enroll in demanding, multiculturally oriented student teaching programs; (b) request and accept out-of-state placements in ethnic minority…

A decline in the college-going rate for high school graduates, and the shrinking public school population with its resultant decline in the demand for new teachers, have both contributed to drops in enrollment which many schools of education are experiencing. There are ways, however, by which schools of education can avoid disastrous results.…

Research was undertaken to compare the attitudes toward instructional media of seconeary education majors who took a full course in media with those of comparable students who received an introduction to media as part of a general methods course. Based on the previous findings that improved attitude led to improved and more effective utilization,…

An examination of the relationship of faculty levels of moral reasoning to that of students at various stages of a teacher education program revealed that no group of students (including graduate level) exhibited faculty members' abilities to recognize principled moral judgments and that the student groups did not differ from each other in such…

Study data suggests that groups of individuals who have completed a bachelor's degree in education are significantly better adjusted than men and women in general and that differences among large subgroups of graduate students in education tend to be small because teachers are not a normal sample. (Author)

Discusses the philosophy, methods of implementation, experiences, and plans for future growth of a center whose purpose is the preparation of secondary English teachers. (RB)