Reports on a study of teacher regulation of classroom activity and teacher-student behavior. Focuses on two types of regulatory strategies: (1) regulating the social structure of participation; and (2) regulating the content development and learning task. Identifies and analyzes the second type of strategy. Includes references. (CMK)

Presents a study that examined how the socioecological characteristics of the classroom affect academic achievement. Attempts to determine an advantageous social environment and the factors that affect the social climate. Indicates a climate-dependent discrepancy between teacher grades' and achievement test scores. Includes references. (CMK)

Examines how young children in preschools use the criterion of movement to determine whether an object, in this case plants, is living or non-living. Reports that children presented a conceptual change classifying the plant as alive using explanations including dependence on environment and other functions. Includes references. (CMK)

Describes an investigation of student and parent attitudes towards bullying by comparing attitudes with bullying behavior. States that parents (n=747) completed the Parental Attitudes to Bullying Scale and children (n=326), aged six to eleven, in primary schools completed the Children's Attitudes to Bullying Scale. Includes references. (CMK)

Examines the influence of the characteristics of children with Down syndrome on the interaction in parental tutoring. Observes parent-child dyads (n=36) and parent-Down syndrome child dyads (n=36). Reports that the instructions parents gave to children with Down syndrome were better adapted to furthering autonomy. (CMK)

Explores the characteristics of social interaction during an English language based task in the primary classroom, and the role of the computer in structuring collaboration when compared to a non-computer mode. Explains that seven and nine year old boys and girls (n=120) completed a computer and non-computer task. (CMK)

Investigates whether pairing unpopular five- to six-year old children with more popular peers would promote more effective collaboration. Examines the differences in verbal and nonverbal communication of the popular and unpopular children. Explains that the children were filmed playing a collaborative game. (CMK)

Reports on a study in which music teachers were asked about their design of music tasks in the classroom and factors that affected those decisions. Presents another study that investigated the effects of friendship, gender, and previous musical experience upon the processes and musical outcome of children's collaborative compositions. (CMK)

Discusses a case study that investigated situational mechanisms of peer group interaction in collaborative activity. Aims to highlight the processes and conditions for meaning-making and to characterize the relationships of social and cognitive processes in peer-mediated collaborative learning. Explains that twelve year olds (n=20) participated in…

Examines how students construct shared understanding by exploring what interactive and discursive tools students use in their collaboration. Presents observations made during a series of innovative mathematics lessons in an eighth grade Dutch primary school classroom. (CMK)

Trends in farming and farm household incomes in Ireland are presented in the context of global competitiveness. Addresses the issue of extension's dilemma in providing fee-based service while relying on public monies. (SK)

British census and survey data show that at least one-third to one-half of farmers have further or higher education qualifications. Better-educated farmers tend to use more information sources, perceive a need for change, and be receptive to training and responsive to economic demands. (SK)

Wageningen University's extension science program shifted from a positivist to a constructivist foundation. Participatory methodologies and interactive policies are being developed, and the program's name has been changed to Communication and Innovation Studies. (SK)

Describes how the American Farm School in Thessaloniki, Greece, simultaneously offers secondary and postsecondary programs and continuing training activities. (SK)

Argues that technology stems from science, and science represents important and specific values in the whole of culture. Such topics can contribute to educating the whole and balanced engineer. Describes a course taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague on the scientist's understanding of the world. (Author/PVD)