Hannah Arendt, one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, has argued that it is the responsibility of educators not to leave children in their own world but instead to bring them into the adult world so that, as adults, they can carry civilization forward to whatever challenges it will face by bringing to bear the learning of the past. In the same collection of essays,...

T h e paradox we are facing is this — the trad itiona l system of education takes 12-20 years to p repare people for life, th a t being th e usual tim e span accepted today, and this p repara tion has actually to equ ip people for life fifty or m ore years ahead, because their active lives will last th a t long; b u t the m ethods we use corre­ spond to today’s and no t to the fu tu re stage of...

In their abstract, Treagust and Duit ask “whether conceptual change can provide a powerful framework for improving instructional practice in such a way that students’ levels of scientific literacy are significantly increased.” And later in their paper they quote PISA 2000’s definition of scientific literacy as “the capacity to identify questions and to draw evidence-based conclusions in order t...

DIFFERENCES The current landscape of higher education is the result of a profound transformation in its nature and scope over the last 2 centuries. One of the driving forces behind this change has been the differentiation of academic disciplines.1 In the early 19th century, colleges and universities instructed only a few elite students in a small number of basic subjects like classical language...

The mounting and critical need for scientific data curation professionals was the impetus for the Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) program. DCERC is developing a sustainable and transferable model for educating Library and Information Science (LIS) students in data curation through field experiences in research and data centers. DCERC has established and implemented a graduat...

Italians have always revered the arts and promoted the infusion of beauty and fi ne design into the quality of everyday life. Perhaps it is this distinctive cultural fl air, revealed in fi elds such as architecture, painting, interior design, graphics, fashion, and cuisine, that has infl uenced Italy also to become a giant in the fi eld of early childhood education. In the 20th century, Italy h...

A S WALL STREET TRACKS THE HEALTH OF AMERICAN BUSIness by monitoring indicators of economic productivity, so must scientists, parents, and taxpayers heed leading indicators of scientific productivity. Since mathematics is the foundation discipline for science, the state of mathematics education is a crucial predictor of future national strength in science and technology. Evidence suggests that ...