Environmental Responsibility: Teachers' Views

Learning for professional life: Student teachers’ and graduated teachers’ views of learning, responsibility and collaboration

The focus of this study is on how final semester students and newly graduated teachers experience the formal objectives of teacher education, with a particular view of the concepts of learning, responsibility and collaboration. The ways of experiencing these concepts varied from conceptions in which only one dimension is discerned from in the student teachers group to conceptions in which sever...

Teachers and Teacher World-views

This paper discusses the increasing imperative for teachers who work in cultural settings other than their own to develop an understanding of their own world-view and the impact their assumptions about teachers, school, students, family and so on have on their teaching practice. The brief narrative of one cultural world-view provides an example of the areas where tensions may arise for teaching...

The Attributes of Excellent Teachers: Views from Practicing Teachers

The key to a great educational system is built upon great teachers. In former President Clinton’s 1997 State of the Union address, he stated that education would be the number one priority for the next four years, and that a good education begins with first-rate teachers; “To have the best schools, we must have the best teachers” (http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/SOU97). In 2001, President Bush reit...

Environmental Violence, Liberalism, and Responsibility

Slovenian SMEs: From the Environmental Responsibility to Corporate Social Responsibility

Environmental and societal issues are emphasising the social role of enterprises, including all size classes, even the smallest ones, so-called micro enterprises. This paper reflects on Slovenian SMEs. These enterprises are confronting ever increasing and changing expectations, demands and claims for accountability not concerning only economic, but also environmental and social performance. Env...