Author: Philip G. Schrag
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: public, service, careers, students, program, earn, flawed, government, repay
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2001-11-30
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 0897898346
ISBN-13: 9780897898348

In 1993, Congress created a student loan repayment plan intended to enable high-debt graduates to accept low-income, public service jobs by reducing their loan payments and eventually forgiving part of their debts. But this Congressional initiative only helps those with catastrophically low incomes. It has failed to attract many users because, as implemented through regulations of the U.S. Department of Education, it requires payment over too long a period (25 years before forgiveness). Many students go to graduate and professional schools in pursuit of careers in public service. But they ofte

Author: Harry Wray
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: practices, attitudes, education, american, japanese
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-06-30
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 0897896521
ISBN-13: 9780897896528

In the United States and Japan there are cultural attitudes that both promote and hinder education. While Japanese education is usually described as superior to an American education, a careful examination reveals that in both systems certain values and attitudes are carried to extremes and have a negative impact. This book shows how cultural attitudes shape schools and how Americans and Japanese can overcome the educational maladies in both countries.

Author: Philip L. Kilbride
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: option, reinvented, times, marriage, plural
Number of Pages: 139
Published: 1994-10-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0897893158
ISBN-13: 9780897893152

Polygyny, or one man having several wives, is the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world although most men cannot afford more than one wife. Polyandry, in which one woman has more than one husband, is quite rare in its classic form. Various types of plural marriage such as these are surfacing in western countries as viable alternatives and positive options to economic and spiritual crisis. Kilbride explores these new varieties of "family" as he finds them in the United States among Mormons, African-Americans, and New Age spiritual communes. His comparisons with Europe

Authors:Garrett McAuliffe, Karen Eriksen,
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: counselor, education, developmental, constructivist, strategies, teaching
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-12-30
List price: $98.95
ISBN-10: 0897897986
ISBN-13: 9780897897983

Despite evidence about the value of active, experiential learning, university teaching is still characterized by an unexamined, teacher-centered pedagogy. An urgent need exists for a guide to innovative mental health education. Teachers will find explicitly described methods for infusing their courses with experiential, active learning strategies, ideas guided by constructivist and developmental thinking.

Authors:Rita Dunn, Shirley A. Griggs,
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: higher, education, styles, learning, approaches, using, practical
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-04-30
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 089789703X
ISBN-13: 9780897897037

Dunn and Griggs challenge the traditional instructional process of lecture/discussion in college teaching and describe the theory, practice, and research that support a wider variety of approaches to better accommodate the learning-style preferences of each student. Twenty-five practitioners from varied backgrounds and disciplines, representing 14 colleges and universities, outline alternative strategies they use with diverse students in their instructions of higher education. Some of these practitioners have been using learning-style approaches for decades. Others have conducted research to t

Author: Janet Levine
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: teaching, learning, effective, personality, intelligences, understanding, enneagram
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-01-30
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0897895614
ISBN-13: 9780897895613

First taught in the United States in 1971, the Enneagram is now used in counseling settings, corporations, university classrooms (including Stanford Business School) and other educational institutions. The Enneagram system is a model of human development which describes nine patterns of personality. Each type is distinct with its own point of view and focus of attention based on nine psychological strategies. Janet Levine, a long-term educator, and with many years experience using the model, has through research and refinement, pioneered an application for educators and students in their quest

Authors:Eunsook Hong, Roberta Milgram,
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Keywords: preference, learning, motivation, homework
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2000-06-30
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 0897895851
ISBN-13: 9780897895859

Educators, parents, and students are keenly aware of the importance of homework in learning. Nevertheless, very little information has been available to them on how to understand individual homework styles and how to accommodate them. This is unfortunate because students, who are encouraged to do their homework under conditions that match their individual homework style preferences, will attain higher achievement in school and have more positive attitudes toward their schoolwork.