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Falconer, Corinne – 1991
In an effort to inform teacher development efforts, a study was conducted to identify and describe the factors involved in making the transition from "other" professional occupations to employment as community college teachers and transforming professional skills into effective teaching practices. The study focused on one female and two male…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, College Faculty, College Instruction
Freidus, Helen – 1991
Teacher education programs rarely help teachers develop those attitudes and skills that will enable them to identify and speak out for that which they know and value. This research reports on a preservice program based on the assumption that by systematically requiring teachers both to reflect on their own practice and to seek out and respond to…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Reid, Gem – 1991
This paper examines the teacher educator's role in assisting prospective teachers to grasp what it means to transform knowledge so that content and pedagogy intersect. Knowledge is not certain nor is its authority held in the text or the teacher's lesson plans. If students perceive knowledge to be open-ended, requiring vital curiosity, they will…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Course Objectives, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Education Courses
Williams, David D. – 1991
This study was conducted in order to examine the efficacy of involving student teachers as naturalistic inquirers during their field experience. Such tasks as taking fieldnotes, doing simple qualitative analyses, writing brief summary reports, and learning to think critically about educational issues while learning to teach, is a very helpful…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Evaluative Thinking, Higher Education, Journal Writing
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
The writings collected in these two journal issues are by adult literacy students at varying levels of writing and language skills. Most of the writings are in English, however, some are in Spanish, and some of the writings written in English are by non-native English-speakers. The writings take the form of poems, personal narratives, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Children
Pike, William A. – 1979
In an attempt to educate American Indians about the problems of alcohol abuse, the 36-lesson book presents historical, cultural, legal, medical, social, and personal facts about alcohol and alcohol abuse. Each 3- or 4-page lesson is illustrated in black and white and consists of an introductory narrative, learning activities, and follow-up…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
Nunez, Ignacio, Ed. – 1989
This magazine, created by local units of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) through its Worker-Family Education Program, is a collection of personal opinions, reports, and creative writing with illustrations. Articles include: an interview with a fellow union member; statements on aspects of the culture of native countries;…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cultural Traits, English (Second Language), Expository Writing

Medicine, Beatrice – Wicazo Sa Review, 1985
Child socialization research among American Indians must account for tribal differences, examining gender roles in a given tribal culture, and employing studies of enculturation and acculturation, life histories, and ethnographies. Child socialization in the Teton Sioux or Lakota tribe can be used to illustrate these research techniques. The…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Child Rearing, Cultural Background
Elsasser, Nan; And Others – 1980
The life stories of 21 Hispanic women of New Mexico spanning roughly four generations, are recorded in this book. Four sections ("But I Remember,""The Soul of the Home,""Little by Little," and "A Lighted Fire") develop these central themes: the shift from a rural to an urban environment; the struggle to…
Descriptors: Biographies, Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Discrimination

Nilsen, Alleen Pace, Ed.; And Others – 1985
The history of Arizona public schooling had a modest beginning in 1864 when the first Territorial Legislature allotted $1,500 to five existing mission schools. The third territorial governor, Anson P. K. Safford, launched a crusade to establish public schools, and by 1877 there were 28. The 1885 Legislature authorized the founding of a Territorial…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Biographies, Black Education, Educational Experience
Britton, James; Pradl, Gordon M., Ed. – 1982
Spaning 30 years, the essays in this collection present variations on the theme of how, through language and social interaction, humans evolve increasingly more accurate maps of their worlds. The six essays in the first section, "Literature and the Shaping of Experience," point to a central concern for literature as a fundamental way of knowing…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Higher Education
Marik, Ray – 1982
This book recounts the struggles and successes of one Seattle School District secondary school composition teacher guiding special education students through the writing process. The nine students had an IQ range of 59 to 109 and had an age range of 14 to 17 years. Of the students assigned to this class: one was neurologically impaired; one was…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Mainstreaming
Seidman, Earl; And Others – 1983
This report presents the results of a study conducted to explore the nature and meaning of the work of community college faculty through a process of in-depth phenomenological interviewing of 76 faculty and staff and 24 students from community colleges in Massachusetts, New York, and California. Section 1 provides an overview of the study,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Counselors, Faculty College Relationship
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1987
This report on the educational concerns of Hispanic Americans is part of a four-part study of minority education in the United States by the National Education Association (NEA). Data were gathered from site visits to a wide variety of urban schools and programs, and from the testimony of representatives of community organizations, the U.S. Bureau…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Dropouts, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Spangler, Lynn C. – 1989
Students in a children and television course wrote their "television autobiographies" (that is, their relationship with TV). Forty-three students at a mid-size upstate New York college participated. The autobiographies corroborated the results of previous quantitative and qualitative research, but added a personal, more in-depth look at the…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Case Studies, Childrens Television, Higher Education