Testing,Testing: Teacher assessment in England

In England there has been a marked increase in the assessment of teachers, culminating in the introduction of a performance management policy for schools that calibrates the occupation of teaching from the cradle to the grave. In this article, we raise a number of issues about the consequences of this policy for teachers and teaching in relation to the value system underpinning it, its likely impact on issues of equity and social justice, its implications for accountability and governance, and its potential for reshaping the culture of teaching in ways that will impact negatively on the nature of future community and social relations.     

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: CHEATING AMONG COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS

Cheating in community colleges is not uncommon and is one of the most unfortunate problems faculty and administrators attempt to solve. As the focus of community colleges shifts from teaching to learning, it is important to study the more unpleasant issues facing the community college family. This article defines and identifies attitudes and situations that encourage academic dishonesty. It further discusses strategies for prevention of academic dishonesty, offers suggestions on how to discourage the practice, and advances recommendations for dealing with cheating. Also included is an inventory of sources about "paper mills," and a listing of cybercheating preventive and investigative software programs.     

Unveiling their worlds: the use of dialogue as a health-promotion tool for HIV/AIDS education in a poor community in Kenya

Three decades since the onset of HIV/AIDS, 33.2 million people worldwide are infected and prevalence in Kenya is on the rise. This paper contributes to discussions about HIV/AIDS education and draws on the health promotion approach and the emancipatory theory of Paulo Freire. Freire argued that through dialogue people unveil their world. The researchers used the method of dialogue to facilitate parents' and teachers' reflections on sexuality education for the children. The dialogues seemed to facilitate some reflection and showed the attitudes of the community to matters that impact on sexuality education (e.g. gender and sexuality). This paper illustrates how dialogic processes can be useful to the process of constructing realistic and contextually relevant HIV/AIDS education. The challenges for the researcher as an outsider are also discussed.     

Managed moves: schools collaborating for collective gain

Government guidance in the United Kingdom encourages groups of schools to take collective responsibility for supporting and making provision for excluded pupils and those at risk of exclusion. Managed moves are one way that some schools and authorities are enacting such guidance. This article presents the results of an evaluation of one such scheme. The scheme, involving seven neighbouring secondary schools, was nearing its first year of completion. The article draws primarily on interview data with pupils, parents and school staff to describe a number of positive outcomes associated with the scheme and to explore how these were achieved. We found that while some of these could be attributed directly to the managed move, others arose from the more inclusive ethos and practices of particular schools. The concepts of tailored support, care and commitment emerged as strong themes that underpinned the various practical ways in which some schools in the cluster were able to re‐engage ‘at‐risk’ pupils. As managed moves become more widely practised it will be important to remember that it is how the move proceeds and develops rather than the move itself that will ultimately make the difference for troubled and troublesome pupils.     

Electronic Media Production

AUDIO IN MEDIA by Stanley R. Alten (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-534-12132-2, 644 pp.)

RADIO PRODUCTION WORKTEXT: STUDIO AND EQUIPMENT by Lynne Gross and David E. Reese (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1990—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0-240-80045-1,146 pp.)

BROADCAST/CABLECOPYWRITING by Peter B. Orlik (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-205-12325-2, 746 pp.)

REWRITING NETWORK NEWS: WORDWATCHING TIPS FROM 345 TV AND RADIO SCRIPTS by Mervin Block (Chicago: Bonus Books, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-929387-15-5, 221 pp.)

SCRIPT SUPERVISING AND FILM CONTINUITY by Pat Miller (Stoneham, MA Focal Press, 1990—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0-240-80018-4, 228 pp.)

PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING by E. W. Brody and Dan L. Lattimore (New York: Praeger, 1990—$16.95, ISBN 0-275-92896-9, 267 pp.)

SIGHT SOUND MOTION: APPLIED MEDIA AESTHETICS by Herbert Zettl (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-534-07952-0, 408 pp.)

THE TECHNIQUE OF TELEVISION PRODUCTION by Gerald Millerson (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-240-51289-8, 566 pp.)

TV SCENIC DESIGN HANDBOOK by Gerald Millerson (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1989—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-240-51285-5, 249 pp.)

THE VIDEO STUDIO by Alan Bermingham, et al. (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1990—$18.95, paper, ISBN 0-240-51267-7,192 pp.)

ELECTRONIC POST-PRODUCTION TERMS AND CONCEPTS by Arthur Schneider (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1990—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0-240-80006-0,152 pp.)

INTRODUCTION TO TELEVISION PRODUCTION by Ken Fielding (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1990—price notgiven, ISBN 0-8013-0313-3, 307 pp.)

CORPORATE TELEVISION: A PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK by Ray DiZazzo (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-240-80023-0, 201 pp.)     

Deviant subjects in foucault and A Clockwork Orange: congruent critiques of criminological constructions of subjectivity

–The expansion of social scientific models for controlling crime and deviancy provided the context for both Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange and much of Foucault's writing. This essay examines how Foucault's writings and Kubrick's film lay out congruent critiques of social scientific and criminological attempts to define and constitute deviancy and subjectivity. Foucault's texts and Kubrick's film ask us to remember the violence of our everyday existence and to recognize our modern nightmares as portents of what lies along the path that we have followed.     

Balancing Head and Heart: The Importance of Relational Accountability in Community-University Partnerships

In this article we introduce a “head and heart” approach to community-engaged scholarship. Through the literatures of Aboriginal scholarship and engaged scholarship we reflect on a community-university research and program development project undertaken in response to health and education concerns of Aboriginal people in Canada. We suggest that the head and heart approach was crucial to the program’s success and provides access to an ethical space where multiple worldviews are recognized and where the importance of relational accountability becomes evident. We then examine the implications of this approach for engaged scholarship and higher education practices.