Discusses teacher education in Brazil and the recent proposals to reform existing programs by the current Brazilian government, arguing that recent reforms function as resources for economic growth and that a tension between mechanisms to make the educational process more flexible and instruments to control and evaluate its products underlines the…

Despite China's efforts in recent years to improve teacher education, it is still imbued with problems which must be addressed effectively and immediately before teacher education can meet with China's desire for modernization. The problems are based on the unattractive social and economic status of the teaching profession in China, so the…

Describes preservice teacher education in Malaysia, focusing on the interface between policies and practices as orchestrated by the Teacher Education Division of the Ministry of Education. Looks at changes in the political, economic, and sociocultural spheres, both locally and internationally, that have helped ensure qualitative and quantitative…

Teacher-education reform in Australia is occurring in a context of significant economic change and restructuring across the whole public sector. The paper contends that there is little state-mandated revision of teacher education, describes recent reforms that have impacted teacher education, and outlines two recent initiatives that have been part…

Explores argument in reading as a touchstone to academic study, discusses some views of the sources of reading difficulty, and makes some suggestions that have helped college students cope with the quantity of reading required and get the most benefit from their reading efforts. Illustrates these strategies with example from undergraduate students…

Describes the concept of action learning and the use of action learning circles in practice, focusing on health care education. Uses evaluation data from participants in action learning circles to show how action learning circles can promote learning from practice. (SLD)

Uses five first-hand accounts of higher education teaching to introduce five reflections on teaching as whole course work rather than performance by individual sessions. Each reflection considers an aspect of the whole course experience shared by student and teacher. Attempts to unify these reflections in a broad tradition of cultural…

Describes the work of writing as a reflective practitioner that was undertaken as part of an Education Principles and Methods module from a master's degree program in medical science for health care professionals and educators. Shows how writing as a reflective practitioner can lead to professional development, decrease stress, and support team…

Studied the extent to which university teaching is respected in Croatia through questionnaires completed by 203 teachers and 469 students from 11 university departments. Results show that teachers access the quality of actual teaching at the university higher than students do, and that the differences for some of the 15 criteria studied could be…

Presents an approach to the teaching of engineering that uses the ideas about the teaching of academic subject matter developed by D. Ausubel. Identifies a threat to higher education in the lack of knowledge of the relationship between research and teaching in engineering and science and remarks on the absence of a corpus of work related to…

Considers the current interest in enhancing the employability of graduates through the adoption of generic key skills into the undergraduate curriculum. Examines the evidence for seven assumptions commonly made by those who promote the "employability" agenda, but concludes that there is unlikely to be a radical change to the curriculum. Suggests…

Five educators at a symposium suggested that giving academics training and support in their teaching roles might prioritize skills at the expense of disciplinary knowledge and threaten academic freedom. This article presents the contrary view that teaching can be improved by such courses and suggests that this point of view should be substantiated…

Assessed the outcomes of a university course on learning to teach in higher education based on a model of teaching-scholarship. Found that after completing the course, participants' thinking about teaching demonstrated greater integration of various aspects of teaching-scholarship. (EV)

Describes an approach to training higher education students to work and communicate more effectively in groups developed at Manchester Metropolitan University. (EV)

Using Schon's concepts and definition of reflective practice, this article elaborates a model used to analyze the author's own processes of "reflection-in-action" and "reflection-on-action" in teaching first-year architectural students. Emphasizes the importance of the concept of "role-frame" in informing the whole reflective process. (EV)