Discussion of quality issues in Ireland's preservice and inservice teacher education examines the 1992 Green Paper on Irish Education, which highlighted several proposals regarding establishment of a system of quality assurance in higher education institutions to offer students the best possible education and ensure high standards of quality in…

Objectively speaking, there has been great historical progress in the educational and developmental opportunities for children and adolescents. However, this progress is not reflected either in an actual improvement of the "qualify of life" or in the subjectively perceived chances of education of adolescents in and out of school. Empirical support…

Eight essays are presented which reflect current problems, issues, and practices related to the development of teacher and administrator expertise. The authors are school district and public school administrators, faculty of schools of education, and a director of staff development in a state department of education. The topics treated are: (1)…

"Qualitative evaluation" is the theme of this issue of the California Journal of Teacher Education. Ralph Tyler states that evaluation is essentially descriptive, and using numbers does not solve basic problems. Martha Elin Vernazza examines the issue of objectivity in history and its implications for evaluation. She posits that the decisive…

This paper addresses educational curricula and the European knowledge systems which they reflect based on social and cultural theories of modernity and postmodernity. Noting the Eurocentric nature of traditional and modernistic knowledge and school knowledge, an alternative postmodern and internationalist perspective on knowledge systems and…

This article discusses recent changes in educational policy in Denmark, especially those associated with the Responsive State concept and effects on schooling and teachers. Trends suggest an attack on teaching as a profession. Surveys indicate teachers are concerned about democratic educational values, students, their own qualifications, and…

This article examines the contribution that education, especially teacher education, has made to national development in Portugal from 1926 through 1981. It traces the changing relationship between the state and curricula of teacher education, changes in the general education system, and organizational characteristics of the teacher education…

Development of a preservice teacher education program based on values shared by faculty and student representatives is illustrated by a two-day seminar of faculty and students at the University of Malta. Traditions in initial teacher education were reviewed and characteristics of the good teacher were identified and related to implicit values.…

Printing industry workers, managers, and union representatives and college vocational printing programs were interviewed (n=48). Technological changes were devaluing craftwork, but computers offered new challenges. Companies were changing faster than colleges could respond. A need to identify principles that transcend printing media was…

In two automotive air-conditioning classes, an experimental group (n=12) conducted laboratory activities structured by cognitive apprenticeship principles; 14 controls attended lectures. Cognitive apprenticeship was significantly more effective in increasing information acquisition, troubleshooting knowledge, and diagnostic skills. (SK)

A treatment group of 20 aviation students used training manuals that presented functional flow diagrams before schematic diagrams. Comparison of data from 10 controls on a card-sort task showed that functional flow diagrams enhanced understanding of technical systems. (SK)

Responses from 232 of 284 secondary urban trade and industrial students showed that most believed the course they took had educational value in preparing them for employment; they disagreed that it helps communication skills or teaches effective multicultural relations. Those planning to attend four-year colleges found it more personally relevant…

Works of over 200 authors were examined using dialectical inquiry and phenomenological reflection, revealing six literacy themes (cognitive performance, cultural identity, knowledgeability, language communication, reading and writing, and utility) and seven technology themes (ambiance, artefact, evolution, invention, knowledge, praxis, and…

Interviews with representatives of 18 states offering registered preapprenticeship identified the following: policies of awarding credit for work, paying wages, and transferring hours to full apprenticeship; organizational arrangements; appropriateness; formal standards; indenture procedures; external funding/resources; and problems and…

Traces the history of the project as a teaching method from the art academies of Renaissance Rome and Paris to European and U.S. technical universities, manual training and industrial arts, and the influence of Kilpatrick and Dewey in the early 20th century. (SK)