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Semiotics, Epistemology, And Inquiry, Jeanette Bopry Sep 2002

Semiotics, Epistemology, And Inquiry, Jeanette Bopry

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Semiotic Inquiry In Education, Donald J. Cunningham Sep 2002

Semiotic Inquiry In Education, Donald J. Cunningham

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Six Metaphors In Search Of The Internet, Gary Shank, Conrad Gleber Sep 2002

Six Metaphors In Search Of The Internet, Gary Shank, Conrad Gleber

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


A Peircean View Of Teacher Beliefs And Genuine Doubt, James B. Schreiber, Connie M. Moss Sep 2002

A Peircean View Of Teacher Beliefs And Genuine Doubt, James B. Schreiber, Connie M. Moss

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 30, No. 1, Fall 2002, Marilyn A. Hirth Sep 2002

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 30, No. 1, Fall 2002, Marilyn A. Hirth

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 30, no. 1, Fall 2002


Critical Issues In Higher Education Finance And Policy: Historical, Social, And Institutional Perspectives, Marilyn A. Hirth Sep 2002

Critical Issues In Higher Education Finance And Policy: Historical, Social, And Institutional Perspectives, Marilyn A. Hirth

Educational Considerations

This special issue of Educational Considerations is focused on higher education, with particular emphasis on finance and policy issues.


Challenges Confronting Small, Private Liberal Arts Colleges: The Historic Context, Stephen P. Wanger Sep 2002

Challenges Confronting Small, Private Liberal Arts Colleges: The Historic Context, Stephen P. Wanger

Educational Considerations

The history of American higher education is a story of adaptation and change. Since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, higher education in the American colonies and the republic has responded to a multitude of challenges and pressures.


The Influence Of Aid And Income On Persistence At A Small Private College, Charles N. Landreth, Robert O. Riggs Sep 2002

The Influence Of Aid And Income On Persistence At A Small Private College, Charles N. Landreth, Robert O. Riggs

Educational Considerations

In the 1990s, many private institutions gave up the practice of making need-blind admission decisions and stopped aiding students to the full extent of their need.


Renewing Higher Education's Social Contracts: Transparency Out Of Chaos, David W. Leslie Sep 2002

Renewing Higher Education's Social Contracts: Transparency Out Of Chaos, David W. Leslie

Educational Considerations

A contract is an agreement between two or more parties. It takes a meeting of the minds and mutual concurrence on terms before a “contract” exists in legal terms.


Long-Term Debt At Public Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Michael Stump Sep 2002

Long-Term Debt At Public Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Michael Stump

Educational Considerations

Revenues, expenditures, debt, and endowments are the basic components of finance in public, four-year higher education institutions. Revenues and expenditures measure short-term institutional financial health while debt and endowments address the long-term. Most measures and analyses of financial performance involve these components.


College And University Long-Term Financing In Context: Implications For Institutional Strategy, James A. Shultz Sep 2002

College And University Long-Term Financing In Context: Implications For Institutional Strategy, James A. Shultz

Educational Considerations

The American college and university is a sophisticated, complex, challenging business operation. Typically it engages in varied lines of business serving multiple markets.


The Human Resources Function In Education: 2010, Scott Norton Sep 2002

The Human Resources Function In Education: 2010, Scott Norton

Educational Considerations

The foregoing statement was asserted by Tead and Metcalf over 80 years ago in their text, Personnel Administration, one of the very first completed works in the field of personnel administration.


Educational Considerations, Vol. 30 (1) Full Issue, Marilyn A. Hirth Sep 2002

Educational Considerations, Vol. 30 (1) Full Issue, Marilyn A. Hirth

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 30 (1) Fall 2002 - Full issue


Bring Context To Mentoring, Dean Cristol Jul 2002

Bring Context To Mentoring, Dean Cristol

Essays in Education

The nature of mentoring varies, but shares a commitment to nurture on-going, indepth relationships through dialogue, decision-making, and reflection that has often been absent in traditional university-field site settings. One of the most exciting aspects of this new approach to teacher education is sharing power and wisdom with a variety of participants. Teachers and teacher educators provide avenues for beginning teachers to teach from real world contexts in order to study the complexities of their own teaching. School-university partnerships inherently provide a rich resource for modeling problem solving and effective decision-making. This article will describe and examine staff development delivery …


From Judgement To Discernment: Using Metaphors To Go Beyond Labels, Caryl H. Casbon, Ruth S. Hubbard Apr 2002

From Judgement To Discernment: Using Metaphors To Go Beyond Labels, Caryl H. Casbon, Ruth S. Hubbard

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Greg Kearsley's Online Education: Leaming And Teaching In Cyberspace, Katrina Meyer. Apr 2002

Greg Kearsley's Online Education: Leaming And Teaching In Cyberspace, Katrina Meyer.

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Memory Texts And Inherited Notions Of Authority: A Speculative Essay, Marjorie B. Logsdon Apr 2002

Memory Texts And Inherited Notions Of Authority: A Speculative Essay, Marjorie B. Logsdon

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


David: A Protege Of Classroom Community Building In A Fifth Grade Classroom, Ruth M. Lowery Apr 2002

David: A Protege Of Classroom Community Building In A Fifth Grade Classroom, Ruth M. Lowery

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


"It's Not Brain Surgery": Construction Of Professional Identity Through Personal Narrative, Carla Chamberlin Apr 2002

"It's Not Brain Surgery": Construction Of Professional Identity Through Personal Narrative, Carla Chamberlin

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Visions Of Self In The Act Of Teaching: Using Personal Metaphors In A Collaborative Study, Catherine Miller,, Katheryn East, Linda M. Fitzgerald, Melissa L. Heston,, Tamara B. Veenstra Apr 2002

Visions Of Self In The Act Of Teaching: Using Personal Metaphors In A Collaborative Study, Catherine Miller,, Katheryn East, Linda M. Fitzgerald, Melissa L. Heston,, Tamara B. Veenstra

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 2002, Chad Litz Apr 2002

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 2002, Chad Litz

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 29, no. 2, Spring 2002


Vertical Equity, Adequacy And Wisconsin School Finance Policy, Deborah A. Verstegen Apr 2002

Vertical Equity, Adequacy And Wisconsin School Finance Policy, Deborah A. Verstegen

Educational Considerations

The Wisconsin Constitution, adopted in 1848, provides that “The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which shall be as nearly as uniform as practicable.” For over 150 years the legislature has grappled with the question of how to achieve this mandate, particularly as social, economic and demographic changes have conditioned concepts of what is “as nearly as uniform as practicable..."


Teacher Leaders In Professional Development Schools, Saundra L. Wetig Apr 2002

Teacher Leaders In Professional Development Schools, Saundra L. Wetig

Educational Considerations

Professional Development Schools (PDSs), first proposed by the Holmes Group in 1986, have been seen as a potentially promising approach to improving the currency of university faculty, the relevancy of pre-service teachers’ experiences, and the involvement of practicing teachers in teaching and learning conversations of inquiry.


Educational Considerations, Vol. 29 (2) Full Issue, Chad Litz Apr 2002

Educational Considerations, Vol. 29 (2) Full Issue, Chad Litz

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 29 (2) Spring 2002 - Full issue


A Study Of Nontraditional Teacher Certification In The Midwest, Phyllis K. Adcock Apr 2002

A Study Of Nontraditional Teacher Certification In The Midwest, Phyllis K. Adcock

Educational Considerations

In the next 10 years, there will be a need to hire over two million teachers, due to increases in K-12 enrollment, retiring teachers, and attrition of new teachers.


Ideas Have A History: Perspectives On The Western Search For Truth (Book Review), Keith C. Sewell Mar 2002

Ideas Have A History: Perspectives On The Western Search For Truth (Book Review), Keith C. Sewell

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Ideas Have a History: Perspectives on the Western Search for Truth, by Frederika Oosterhoff. Lanham: University Press of America, 2001. xviii + 355 pages. ISBN: 0-7618-2031-0.


Just Do It Right: The Experience Of Shalom In Sport Participation, Thomas L. Visker Mar 2002

Just Do It Right: The Experience Of Shalom In Sport Participation, Thomas L. Visker

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Reformational Christian Philosophy And Christian College Education, Calvin Seerveld Mar 2002

Reformational Christian Philosophy And Christian College Education, Calvin Seerveld

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Oswald Research And Creativity Program, Uk Office Of Undergraduate Research Jan 2002

Oswald Research And Creativity Program, Uk Office Of Undergraduate Research

Kaleidoscope

No abstract provided.


The Science Studio – A Workshop Approach To Introductory Physical Science, S. R. Chaudhury Jan 2002

The Science Studio – A Workshop Approach To Introductory Physical Science, S. R. Chaudhury

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

This paper describes the Science Studio, an innovative workshop approach for instruction in a physical science course that combines aspects of traditional lecture and laboratory. The target audience for this introductory course is non-science majors, including prospective teachers. An inquiry-based, technology-rich learning environment has been created to allow students hands-on, in-depth exploration of topics in physics, and earth and space science. Course philosophy, course development, and sample activities are described in this paper, along with outcomes from a project-wide evaluation of the Virginia Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers (VCEPT), an investigation of change in student attitudes and …