A series of brief recommendations for reforming foundations of education course experiences is presented. (MM)

A broadened scope of career possibilities for teacher education graduates in settings other than the classroom is discussed, and a curriculum designed to prepare them for work in industrial corporations, museums, hospitals, health and social service organizations, and prisons is described. (JD)

An understanding of the interdependency of all life and the need for deep-seated changes in economic, political, and educational values on the part of each individual can bring about a sense of personal responsibility and active involvement in the struggle for decent human survival. (JD)

The report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform," is criticized for overemphasizing human resource needs and economic utility at the expense of intellectual, moral, and spiritual learnings. Other perspectives on reform in the schools and in teacher education are discussed.…

The issue of salary benefits for advanced degrees has long needed reexamining, but to make cost effectiveness the dominant criteria in evaluating university-based inservice teacher education is limiting. The benefits of lifelong professional development, which responds to educators as developing adults as well as improves classroom skills, are…

In teacher education programs, foundations of education have had a history of marginality and are currently experiencing an unsettled present. At a time when teacher preparation programs are on the defensive because of economic, public attitudes, and self concept problems, foundations of education have much to offer. (CJ)

The article proposes that teacher education programs learn from the oversights and misassumptions made by recent career education programs.

Applied ethics courses in education emphasize an analytical or rules/principles approach to resolving ethical dilemmas, whereas character/structure and background beliefs/ideals tend to be minimized. The article describes the importance of all three approaches, noting their implications for developing teachers' capacities to make caring and…