Suggests that college faculty have a public responsibility. However, ideas of objectivity or expertise correspond more closely to a market-oriented higher education system that takes more pride in serving corporate than social interests. Asserts that for teachers to produce critically aware and engaged students, classrooms must be a place of…

Revisits Enlightenment themes as they relate to higher education, reassessing Enlightenment precepts in light of postmodernist and other critiques and asserting that while some aspects of counter-Enlightenment critiques are well-grounded, many core practices of the Enlightenment tradition remain valid. (SM)

Asserts that a shared set of unexamined norms and values about the constitution of the "academic" allows teachers and learners to collude in avoiding difficult political and social issues. The argument is grounded in the author's experience teaching a module that uses shocking, politically controversial material to communicate social psychological…

Inveighs against the prevalent commodified discourse in higher education, especially as it affects curriculum planning, quality assurance, and learner typologies, suggesting that educational research, in offering models drawn, but now divorced, from practice may contribute to this negative impact. Critiques a polarized model distinguishing…

Describes the introduction of an innovative approach to learning and assessing critical science understanding by preservice elementary science teachers. Student teachers submit a cumulative, multivoiced (patchwork) text which integrates smaller pieces written across the module that demand critical and personal engagement and have been given peer…

Two university academic administrators discuss tensions between their values and constraints under which they work, suggesting that universities develop a clear understanding of higher education's social purposes in a changing world (commitment to establishing a culture of collegiality that welcomes difference and awareness of the "bigger picture"…

Assessed hardiness, stress, and burnout among Chinese preservice teachers. Different responses to positively and negatively worded hardiness items suggested positive and negative hardiness stress resilience and stress vulnerability. Stress, positive hardiness, and negative hardiness had main, independent significant impact on emotional exhaustion…

Surveyed Israeli teachers to determine whether diversity related burnout was empirically distinguishable from general teacher burnout and explore the extent to which diversity related burnout was predicted by variables related to school cultural heterogeneity, organizational culture, and teacher background and attitudes. Diversity related burnout…

Examined internal and external factors contributing to the change process, bureaucratic and personal responses, and resistance to change in a secondary teacher preparation program. Data from interviews, observations, document review, and review of personal journals highlighted four recurring phenomena serving as catalysts for and obstacles to…

Proposes that teachers who undergo accommodative change do so if they are internally motivated to learn; become aware of their implicit ideas and practices and critically examine them; construct alternative knowledge, beliefs, and practices; resolve conflicts between the prior and the new set of ideas and practices; and do so in a social climate…

Examined students' perspectives on teachers' behaviors that impeded or contributed to effective class management. Data from interviews with 182 secondary school students from 14 U.S. schools indicated that despite widely varying school contexts, students provided consistent reports that effective managers set early, consistent standards, developed…

Assessed preservice teachers' contrasting views between their own use of calculators and appropriate use of calculators in elementary school mathematics classrooms. Survey results indicated that respondents did not use calculators on simple problems, nor did they rely on them as a crutch. They viewed calculators largely as tools to speed up…

Presents a series of progressive activities intended to demonstrate to teachers how to incorporate four pedagogical principles (sampling, representation, exaggeration, and tactical complexity) in developing net/wall games and activities that enhance student learning within a teaching games for understanding framework. These principles enable…

Uses various games and sports to illustrate how to develop key net/wall game concepts. This multi-activity approach assumes that transfer of learning across a range of activities can be achieved among most students through teachers' explicit direct analogies within the net/wall game category. The article notes that teachers must remember that…

Examined the potential and adequacy of the workplace as a site for teacher learning in view of a large-scale secondary education reform in the Netherlands. Teacher surveys and interviews indicated that there were great discrepancies between theory and practice in opportunities for professional learning in the workplace. Rate of participation in…