In a survey, 66% of 280 white preservice teachers identified the primary goals of multicultural education as cooperation, tolerance, and assimilation within the existing social structure. Limited numbers chose the goals of equality of all groups, promotion of equal opportunity, or responsibility to eliminate discrimination and prejudice by…

Considers qualitative research the authors (both education professors) conducted while teaching an ethics course in different semesters over seven years. Examines and deconstructs personal and professional codes of ethics, including their own and those of doctoral students. The study found that students' professional and personal ethics codes…

Questions designed to identify level of cooperative behavior in situations were answered by 132 business/economics majors and 169 education/nursing majors. Business/economics students act less cooperatively, but they become more cooperative as they progress through school. (SK)

Factors that influenced 157 students at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and 176 at the University of Cyprus to become teachers were compared. The factor "internal motives" was the strongest factor that influenced students from PSU, whereas the most influential factors for students from Cyprus were "variety of benefits" and…

A survey of institutions offering doctoral programs in education found no clear institutional movement toward either Ph.D. or Ed.D. degrees; increasing reluctance by research universities to offer the Ed.D.; increasing likelihood by comprehensive institutions to offer Ed.D. degrees; and similar requirements for both degrees. Three common arguments…

Literature suggests that the type of context wherein a task is placed relates to students' performance and solution strategies. In the particular domain of logical thinking, there is the belief that students have less difficulty reasoning in verbal than in logically equivalent symbolic tasks. Thus far, this belief has remained relatively…

Science for Elementary Educators is a multidisciplinary, interactive learning course developed for the science instruction of childhood education majors. The course described here is a model for science education reform that requires relatively few resources, making it ideal for adoption at any institution. (Contains 4 figures.)

A case study of an undergraduate Educational Psychology course that incorporated both constructivist and teacher-centred teaching was conducted. The learning processes and higher-level learning outcomes were examined through participant observation, interviews with students and analyses of student assignments. The lessons were audio recorded and…

This investigation traced changes in anxiety for teaching mathematics (ATM) among pre-service elementary school teachers (n=36) enrolled in a mathematics methods course by analyzing their weekly journal entries. Journal entries were coded for high level of ATM (ATM-high) or absence of ATM (ATM-absent) during the first class session, as well as…

The primary purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the perceptions of preservice elementary education majors. The subjects for this study were obtained from a sample of 79 junior and senior elementary education majors enrolled at a southern university. Students viewed the movie "Mr. Holland's Opus" and were asked to write a reflective…

As a result of the new era in science education reform, professional associations in science such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have developed science standards for grades K-12. This paper describes a model for utilizing the AAAS Project 2061 benchmarks for these standards in a science methods course. The course…

Students come to teacher preparation programs with well-formed, influential cognitive constructs about teaching; they come with a variety of constructs; and these constructs can be identified and accessed. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) appears to be a way to access the constructs students hold. Subjects were 52 beginning teacher education…

This study focused on which countries (besides the United States) produced the most doctorates in the education field, based on data provided by the National Research Council. The study combined the baccalaureate origins of education doctorates with the rankings of countries, and considered each country's cultural, social, economic, and political…