The UCEA Project on Education Leadership: Voices from the Field, Phase 3

This special issue of Educational Considerations is devoted to the national research study Voices from the Field: Phase 3 (hereafter referred to as Voices 3), conducted by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) to study the perceptions of superintendents and principals regarding school improvement, social justice, and democratic community

Educational Considerations, vol. 36(2) Full Issue

Educational Considerations, vol. 36(2)-Spring 2009-Full issu

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 36, no. 2, Spring 2009

This content includes the table of contents, and editorial information for Vol. 36, no. 2, Spring 200

Making connections: belonging and sensemaking of diverse college students

Using a cross-disciplinary, strengths-based model, this study strove to advance knowledge about college students who are from historically underserved populations and who attend one campus of a state university in the northwest region of the United States. Through an online survey of 235 students followed by semi-structured interviews with seven students, we investigated how students made sense of their college experience and whether they felt a sense of belonging. We also determined the individual, social ecological, and university resources and practices that contributed to their succes

Living on the Edge of Chaos: Leading Schools into the Global Age (2\u3csup\u3end\u3c/sup\u3e Ed.)

In the last decade it has become increasingly clear that life today is global on many levels, both personally and professionally, and that the twenty-first century will indeed be earmarked as the first age of global living for the masses. Educators have an obligation now to prepare students to function as global citizens, to work and live with people from other cultures, and to learn within the multiple forms of technology. Having an online virtual life every day in school must become a norm if students are to grow up with the rapidly changing speed of human exchange and learning in virtual environments. The acclaimed authors of this second edition believe that creating new approaches to schooling represents a departure from the school improvement agenda of past decades. Educators need a new mindset to lead them to a new paradigm of schooling, with a new curriculum called life. As in the first edition of this book, the authors argue that schools can adapt better to emerging global working and living conditions when they are free of bureaucratic thinking and instead hold systemic thinking as a mindset. In this second edition, the authors have now added how a much sharper focus is needed: developing schools as global learning centers that prepare students now to be competent and caring global citizens. It is within the global context of living that the mission of schools needs to change course so that students, at every age, can become citizens who are both knowledgeable and skillful and who care about the human community and its sustainability. Educators will necessarily push the boundaries of schooling and break barriers so that global opportunities and challenges can be pursued. In the process, educators are finding themselves living on the edge of chaos, a necessary condition for stimulating significant and enduring change. This is a big moment in the history of education, one that needs courageous people to imagine new schooling futures, those who find ways to link to the local and global business communities and also consult educators around the world that have a similar mission

College of Education: diversity, collaboration, community engagement

Washington State University Tri-Cities, College of EducationJohnson, E. et al. (2010, March 26). College of Education: diversity, collaboration, community engagement. Poster presented at the Washington State University Academic Showcase, Pullman, WA