In this study, we interviewed collaborating teachers who had participated in our field experience program to examine collaborating teachers' perceptions of a long-term, onsite teacher-education program and to define their role as teacher educators. Collaborating teachers stated that this long-term, preservice field experience effectively…

Nine stages are identified in a model of adult vocational development that assumes career development is a life-span process that goes through various structural periods and transition cycles. (JMF)

Assumptions about academic staffing in Canadian universities are examined in light of the combined effects of the expansionist 1960s and the depressed 1970s. Six critical issues that require attention in the higher education community are presented for examination, including mid-career alternatives and the need for objective data. (JMF)

The article describes postsecondary education programs in the Province of Alberta, Canada, for training individuals to work in paraprofessional and professional positions in community services for disabled children, adults, and their families. A career ladder in Rehabilitation Education provides advancement through study at the bachelor's,…

The article analyzes the incidence of adolescent pregnancies in Canada from a socio-ecological perspective, describes the cyclical nature of the problem, and discusses potential health promotion and prevention strategies at various stages of the generational cycle, including a model for sexual decision-making. (JW)

An innovative professional master's of continuing education program at the University of Calgary took five years to be established. It had to overcome differing views of faculty, the opposition of the dean of education, and other types of political and philosophical resistance. (SK)