Purpose: The educational community -- particularly higher education -- should contribute to the new generation's understanding of what sustainability entails. To do this, teachers must be aware of the need for education for sustainability. However, little is known about how university teachers understand or represent sustainability. This study…

This research, conducted in the north-west of England, examined what primary trainee teachers believe affects their wellbeing, while studying on a 1-year post-graduate course. The research adopted a phenomenological case study using semi-structured self-directed interviews. Our thematic analysis illuminates that trainee teachers' intersectionality…

Historically, New Zealand policy makers have defined quality teachers as those who form effective learning relationships with students and teach in culturally appropriate and responsive ways. Recent global emphasis on standardised test score improvement suggests that this definition is shifting, implying changes for the focus and the form of…

The author argues against the belief that teaching is a matter of mastery of techniques. He asserts that the individual personality acts upon the knowledge a person gains and thus changes it. The teacher cannot, therefore, be thought of as a scientific technician. (HMD)

This document reviews the meaning of "parity" from three broad categories: teacher education institutions, teachers as represented by unions and professional organizations, and individuals or groups occupying a middle ground. The major points of view of each category are presented and substantiated by excerpts from study commission and task force…

The training of teachers to properly meet the needs of today's students is discussed. (CK)

The disadvantaged who live in the ghettos of American cities must be educated to face reality. This is the best preparation for them if they are to find a place for themselves in American society. (CK)

This study sets forth the results of an inquiry made at the request of UNESCO in the 30 countries in all parts of the world by four world teachers' organizations. Three organizations represent teachers in state systems and the fourth represents Catholic education. These teacher organizations chose 35 national organizations in countries spread over…

This book is a study document of the directorate of the Study Commission on Undergraduate Education and the Education of Teachers. This document is a result of a conference of teacher education administrators held in Chicago in July 1971. The document presents informed opinion on a variety of issues relevant to preparing education personnel.…

Some major concerns about the development of mainstreaming were discussed. Specifically, societal attitudes, new demands for teacher education, new demands for effective educational planning and programming, and finally the need for a more effective evaluation of the process of mainstreaming were considered. (Author/RK)

The Stull Act requires each district to develop a uniform set of written guidelines for use in evaluating competency of its certified personnel; at this point, advice from the certificated instructional personnel must be considered when developing the guidelines. The chief issue raised by it is, "Should legislators or other lay groups be…

Currently, sex education covers the mechanics of reproduction; details of venereal disease, and birth control information. This paper argues that this field should be augmented by the inclusion of the emotionally enriching, interpersonal, and sociocultural elements of human sexuality. A fundamentally Freudian sketch of sexual development is…

Describes a special university-level educational program for "disadvantaged students and reflects on its limitations and inadequacies. Urges attention to such issues as "how to teach human beings individually, rather than "how to buy off a revolution. (Author/JS)