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This proceedings contains 13 papers from the 1999 annual conference of the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria (British Columbia). The papers are: (1) "Sacred and the Profane in Advertising Art" (Bill Zuk, Robert Dalton); (2) "Finding the Fund$ in Fun Run: Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Physical Activity Events as Fund-Raising Tools in the Not-for-Profit Sector" (Joan Wharf Higgins, Lara Lauzon); (3) "'GirlPower': Assessing the Health Impacts of a Community-Based Recreation Program for Inner-City Female Adolescents" (Joan Wharf Higgins, Nancy Reed, Nancy Sylvain); (4) "Communicating Mathematically: Writing" (Werner W. Liedtke); (5) "Using the Repertory Grid in Teacher Education: Reflective Thought Objects, Story and Metaphor" (Tim Hopper); (6)"Counselling Children of Divorce" (Geoffrey Hett, Jenny Spring, Zane Shannon); (7) "Topical Structure Development in Academic English" (Hitomi Harama, Robert Anthony); (8) "A Resource-Based Learning and Teaching Inservice Program for Elementary Teachers: Victoria '98" (Donald Hamilton); (9) "Team Building through Physical Challenges" (Sandra L. Gibbons); (10) "Studying Intramuscular Metabolism in Children: Technology and Ethics" (Catherine A. Gaul); (11) "The Effect of Instruction on Children's Knowledge of Marine Ecology, Attitudes towards the Ocean and Stances toward Marine Resource Issues" (Shirley Cummins, Gloria Snively); (12) "Recent Canadian Contributions to Adult Literacy Policy and Practice in Tanzania" (Adrian Blunt); and (13) "Teacher Knowledge and the Evaluation of Student Achievement" (John Anderson, Faye Stefan, Lucinda [Cindy] Brown). (Contains references in most papers.) (SV)

This proceedings contains 13 papers from the 1998 annual Faculty of Education conference at the University of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). The papers are: (1) "Struggling with Re-Presentation, Voice, and Self in Narrative Research" (Marla Arvay); (2) "Women's Soccer in Canada: A Slow Road to Equity" (Meredith Bogle, Bruce Howe); (3) "Friendship: An Epistemological Frame for Narrative Inquiry" (Wendy Donawa); (4) "Human Diversity: Concepts and the Research Direction" (Lily Dyson, Lori McLeod, Leif Rasmussen); (5) "Pen Pals and the Writing Process: A Constructivist Exchange Writing about Writing" (Nancy L. Evans); (6) "Gender as a Moderator of the Relationship between Social Support and Adaptation among Asian International Students" (Janine J. Fernandes); (7) "A Biographical Exploration of School and Community" (Carol Harris); (8) "Teacher-Centered Projects: Confidence, Risk Taking and Flexible Thinking (Mathematics)" (Werner W. Liedtke); (9) "Bursting Bubbles: Who Knows and Who Speaks" (Antoinette Oberg, Pat Rasmussen); (10) "Coparticipation as Mode for Learning To Teach Science" (Wolff-Michael Roth, G. Michael Bowen, Nadely Boyd, Sylvie Boutonne); (11) "A Re-consideration of Spirituality and Education: Re-conceptualizing Spirituality" (Daniel Scott); (12) "Haida Gwaii Field School in Culture and Environmental Education, Queen Charlotte Islands" (Gloria Snively, John Corsiglia); and (13) "Humor and Cultural Perspectives" (Bill Zuk, Robert Dalton). (Contains references in most papers.) (SV)

This proceedings contains 19 papers presented at the second annual faculty conference at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Papers cover a wide variety of disciplines, including preschool education, classroom communication, mathematics instruction, theater, attention deficit disorders, distance learning by rural home schoolers, physical education, writing in English as a second language classes, reading comprehension, art education, preservice teacher education, social studies, music education, counseling, action research by teacher-researchers, and teacher anger. The papers are: "Sensory Experience: A Means of Enhancing Playfulness and Creativity for Preschool Children" (Wanda A. R. Boyer); "Reading Your Readers: The Observation of Ability and Control through Students' Nonverbal Communication" (Mary Dayton-Sakari); "Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Striving To Accommodate Changes in Emphasis-Spatial Sense" (Werner W. Liedtke); "Using Theatre To Explore Social Issues" (Carole Miller); "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Brief Review of Issues" (Jim Ward); "Past Achievements, Present Objectives, and Future Directions of Electronic Home Learning Programmes in British Columbia" (Kathie M. Black); "Precontemplating P.E.?" (Joan Wharf Higgins, Pattie-Jean Naylor, Tara Ney); "A Comparison of Cross-Linguistic Genre Preferences" (Robert J. Anthony, Hitomi Harama); "A Study on Reading Comprehension Processes in Chinese and English: Interdependent or Universal" (Hua Tang); "Visual Persuasion: The Power of Advertising Art" (Bill Zuk, Bob Dalton); "Constructing Continuity, Exploring Possibility, Celebrating Ambiguity: The Evolution of Our Collaborative Practice with Pre-service Teachers in Social Studies and Language Arts" (Vicki A. Green, Nancy L. Evans); "Sight-Singing Revisited: An Ethnographic Account of a Musicianship Methods Class" (Moira Szabo); "Memories of Music in Elementary School: A Study in Sonata Form" (Inez St. Dennis); "A Study of the Cohort Group Model of Delivering Pre-service Teacher Education: The First Year Results" (Lily Dyson, Betty Hanley, Carole Miller); "The Collaborative Process of Reflection on Counsellor Development: A Case Study for Research and Practice" (Anne Marshall, Trace Andersen); "Gender Equity in Physical Education Workshop for Teachers: The Process of Change" (Sandra Gibbons, Geraldine Van Gyn); "Educators as Action Researchers: Discourse and Reflections" (Lily Dyson, Leola Gibson, Colin Roberts); "Reflexivity and the Researcher's Role" (Elizabeth M. Banister); and "'The Anger in Our Miss Maple': Narrative Exploration of Difficulty in Teaching" (Leah C. Fowler). (Contains references in most papers.) (SV)

This proceedings contains 17 papers presented at the third annual faculty conference at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Papers cover a wide variety of disciplines and topics, including student teaching, athletics, researcher-teacher collaboration, hands-on science instruction, violence prevention, youth violence, counseling, physical education, career development, Native American art and culture, culturally relevant science instruction, mathematics instruction, student evaluation, art education, and philosophy of knowledge. Following a conference summary by Ted Riecken, the papers are: "The Role of Oral Language in the Practicum Classroom" (Harold K. Derksen); "The Role of Mood States in Assessing Rugby Players: State or Trait Measure?" (Tanya Berry, Bruce Howe); "Researcher-Teacher Collaboration To Develop and Test a Constructivist Teaching Model" (Lily Dyson, Steven Toleikis); "Starting Small and with Uncertainties: Towards a Physically-Grounded Model of Learning from Laboratory Activities" (Wolff-Michael Roth); "Preventing School Violence by Building Connectedness: A Local Initiative" (Mary-Wynne Ashford); "Violence, Gender and Differential Socialization: Examining Male-Female Differences in the Youth Violence Project" (Ted Riecken, Sibylle Artz); "Caught in the Middle: A Counselling Program for Children of Divorce" (Geoffrey G. Hett); "Meeting the Needs of Female Physical Education Students in High School" (Sandra Gibbons, Catherine Gaul, Geraldine Van Gyn, Joan Wharf-Higgins); "Influence of Aerobic Fitness on High Intensity Anaerobic Performance in Females" (Catherine A. Gaul, David Docherty); "Implementation of the K-7 Personal Planning Program" (Anne Marshall); "Yet Sun Heywa: Developing a First Nations Art Website" (Bill Zuk, Robert Dalton); "Rediscovering Traditional Science in Multicultural Science Education" (Gloria Snively, John Corsiglia); "Attempting To Foster the Development of Number Sense" (Werner W. Liedtke); "Investigating the Evaluation of Student Achievement" (John O. Anderson); "The Art Glass Movement and Curriculum Design for Higher Education" (Laura Kaufman-Weisbord); "The Acquisition of Strength: Catalyst for Research" (David Docherty, Catherine A. Gaul); and "Between Suicide and Murder--Living in the Space?" (Antoinette Oberg, Denyse Parizeau, Sue Taylor). (Contains references in most papers.) (SV)

"Connections '95" focused on educational collaboration and change and the process of becoming a professional. Following the introduction, "Creating the Context: Connections '95" (C. Miller and M. Sakari), the 16 conference papers are presented. The papers are: (1) "Taiga and Tundra: Art and Culture in a Changing Circumpolar World" (B. Zuk and R. Dalton); (2) "The Perspective of the Other: Differences and Equality" (D. W. Stanley); (3) "Curiouser and Curiouser" (S. Taylor, A. Oberg, H. Coey, B. Levis, and T. Main); (4) "Reading a Tango: Multiple Interpretations of Text" (A. Oberg, S. Taylor, C. M. Harvey, and P. Murray); (5) "Establishing Collaborative Research within a University of Victoria Partnership Program at Okanagan University College" (V. A. Green); (6) "The Processes of Researcher-Teacher Collaboration: Reflections of a Researcher and Two Teachers in a Project for Promoting Social Integration of Children with Special Needs" (L. Dyson, R. Rothnie, and R. Dryden); (7) "A Program for the Future: Implementation of a Non-Traditional Timetable" (K. M. Black); (8) "Schools and Family Resource Centres" (M. M. Mayfield); (9) "Ownership of Learning Portfolios" (M. B. Robertson); (10) "Themes of Development for Beginning Counsellor Trainees in an Off-Campus Graduate Program" (A. Marshall and T. Andersen); (11) "Self-Reflection in Our Future Teachers" (W. Boyer and C. Miller); (12) "Learning Styles and Self-Directed Learning in Indonesian Distance Education Students" (C. M. Harvey and B. Harvey); (13) "Characteristics of a Successful Learner" (T. Johnson); (14)"Personal Response Mapping: Some Research Possibilities" (D. Knowles); (15) "Forms of Stress among Counsellors Working with Trauma Survivors" (M. J. Arvay and M. R. Uhlemann); and (16) "Manifestation of Latent Thetas: A Comparison of Field-Study and Positivistic Approaches to the Investigation of Self-Nurturance" (R. S. Brown, J. O. Anderson, and M. M. McGee). The final entry is "'Get Curious, Not Cured': A Summary of the Connections '95 Conference Proceedings" (M. Recchi). Contains references at the end of papers. (ND)

Nineteen of the papers presented on the theme "Learning to Read, Reading to Learn," are included in this report. Articles on basic considerations in reading instruction are "Children's View of Language,""Early Reading from a Biological Perspective,""Pygmalion in the Reading Circle,""Dealing with Feelings and Emotions in the Classroom" and "Nonverbal Communication in the Classroom." Specific articles on procedures, techniques, and proposals are "A Structure for a Reading Program K-12,""Aiding Secondary Subject Teachers in Guiding Reading Growth,""Corrective Reading for the Classroom Teacher,""Bibliotherapy in the Classroom,""Some Thoughts on the Use of Role-Playing in the Classroom,""Listening and the Classroom Teacher,""Individualized Reading,""The Teaching of Poetry," and "The Change Process and Teacher Preparation." Evaluation of reading programs is discussed in "A Comparison Study of Four Methods of Developing Reading Readiness Skills,""Reading Readiness Skills Acquisitions by Two Methods: A Traditional Reading Program and a Kindergarten Science Curriculum,""Science Content Readability as Determined by the Cloze Procedure,""The Readability of Intermediate Social Studies Texts," and "The Impact of 'Sesame Street.'" (MKM)

These papers, presented during the 1981 convention of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, addressed eight major topics: (1) the physical education and sport profession in Canada; (2) physical fitness (community agencies, radiology, aging and physical activity, the effective physical education program, aerobic fitness, obesity in elementary school, lifetime fitness); (3) motor learning (task difficulty and activity selection); (4) elite athletics (subsidization of athletes, education and training of the highly talented athlete, an analysis of wheelchairs used at the 1980 Olympic Games for the Disabled); (5) the male dancer and homosexuality; (6) administration (the study of physical education and sport administration, formal and informal structure usage in a voluntary sport organization); (7) history of British Columbia's Provincial Recreation program; and (8) curriculum (Japanese judo in the high school required physical education curriculum, and theory and practice of curriculum implementation). (JD)

This volume contains 27 edited papers, and abstracts of 14 papers, presented during the 1981 convention of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Subjects discussed are listed in 10 categories: (1) working together for quality programs; (2) challenges facing the physical education teacher; (3) skill development and decision making in team sports; (4) history: developing a sport history program; (5) athletics: (arguments against athletic scholarships, the sociology of university athletic awards, competitive physical activity, girl's high school basketball programs); (6) dance for boys, the aesthetic in sport and dance; (7) administration (the budgetary process, comparative Canadian-American research grantmanship and legal responsibility, professional development for physical education teachers); (8) health (venereal disease, the health educator as a role model, maturational assessment of female gymnasts, observation as a teaching behavior, effective teaching, individualized instruction in the secondary school, the problem-solving approach for teachers of gymnastics, teaching rugby in secondary schools, mini-field hockey); (9) adaptive instruction (biomechanical analysis of the high jump of an amputee, program effects on behavior of mentally retarded children); and (10) juggling. The abstracts are brief reports of research studies and innovative programs. (JD)

These proceedings contain 31 presentations from a conference on the role and practice of education in prisons. The three papers in part 1, Setting the Stage, examine the roles of education and prisons in society from historical and philosophical viewpoints. Panel presentations in part 2, Developing an Educational Model, offer three perspectives on prison education. A summary of small group discussions, questions, and commentary, and a paper supporting a liberal type of prison education follow. The third part, Evaluating Prison Programs, is a symposium. The principal paper proposing an evaluation system is followed by two discussions, questions, and commentary. Part 4 contains four presentations from evaluation workshops that (1) outline Stufflebeam's CIPP (Content, Input, Process, or Product) model and illustrate its use; (2) review problems of conducting evaluations in prisons and provide some evaluations; (3) summarize a task force report on measuring performance as a database for program evaluation, and (4) review literature supporting the effectiveness of cognitive developmental programs. The 13 workshop presentations in part 5 focus on curriculum. Four papers deal with moral development, two with cognitive development, three with the Alaska Experiment, and four with various topics--women's programs, vocational programs, fine arts, and literacy. A conference overview concludes the proceedings. (YLB)