The 21st Century Learning Initiative's essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a self-organizing activity. The www site contains background information about the initiative and collections of documents/articles on related themes such as Meta-Issues in Science, Religion and Society, Cognitive Science, Neurology, Evolutionary Science, Systems Theory, Philosophy/Spirituality. There is a newsletter, a collection of readers feedback and 'Synthesis'. Synthesis is a paper and readings on changes in society, science, organizational management and economics and their effects on our understanding of human learning and education, drawn from research in several related fields. A frames capable browser is required.

The ACE Faculty WWW site contains several papers (20+) by faculty members on aspects of adult education. Titles include "The Getting of Wisdom: What Critically Reflective Teaching Is and Why It's Important", "Co-Creating Knowledge: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Inquiry", "Building a Learning Community", "Freirean Literacy in North America: The Community-Based Education Movement".

The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) agreed to the release of a draft revision of the 1989 Hobart Declaration on Schooling which set out National Goals for Schooling in Australia. This current document, published in April 1998, is a consultation paper. The consultation process lasts for six months.

The www site of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association. This resource provides details of the activities, journal, research projects, publications and policies of the association. There are also discussion lists for example on Outcome Based Education, National Curriculum Issues, Student Participation in the Curriculum.

The British Education Index (BEI) is an authoritative index to the contents of 300 education and training journals published in the British Isles, together with certain internationally published periodicals, and is expanding to cover national report and conference literature in the field. The BEI is produced by a self-financing unit in Leeds University Library. BEI is planned to be more closely integrated with Education-line, the fulltext service. Members of UK higher education institutions which have subscribed to British Education Index on BIDS are eligible to use BEI free at the point of use. Users must register with their own institution's library. The index is available to international users via certain 'Dialog' services.

A full text, peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal operating as a listserv under the name CANJEDADPOL-L at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Education. The Journal seeks to publish thoughtful work that raises important questions and promotes debate on problems of educational practice and policy. The site can be accessed via the URL below, or subscibers can send mail to listproc@cc.umanitoba.ca. The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of education, and has a Canadian focus.

An annotated paper, from the 18th Christian Scholars Conference, discussing Alexander Campbell, one of the founders of the American Baptist "Restoration Movement", who in the 1830s-1840s advocated common schools (state-sponsored, but on a Protestant basis). Headings are 1.Campbell’s Place as an Educational Reformer, 2.The Possibilities Which Campbell Envisioned for Moral Education, 3.Campbell’s Quest for Centralized Common Schools, 4.Campbell and the Revisionist Critique of Educational Reform, 5.Concluding Reflections.

A Council of Europe project. It describes itself: "The main purpose of education for democratic citizenship is to strengthen democratic societies by fostering and perpetuating a vibrant democratic culture." This website contains: links to information about project activities in the Council and in member states; links to documents organised by type, subject, language and country.

The Education Policy Analysis Archives is a peer reviewed scholarly journal dealing with Education Policy. The journal, published by Arizona State University, began publication at the beginning of 1993, back copies are available from 1993 to date. The full text of all published articles is available and there is a seperate collection of abstracts.

This resource contains contents pages and abstracts from Educational Theory. The purposes of the journal are given as "The general purposes of Educational Theory, [a quarterly publication published by the University of Illinois with support from the Philosophy of Education Society and the John Dewey Society] are to foster the continuing development of educational theory and to encourage wide and effective discussion of theoretical problems within the educational profession." A number of recent articles are concerned with moral education.