Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning across the United Kingdom brings together the perspectives of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from across England, Wales and Scotland to produce a rich, up-to-date and highly textured source of evidence about this under-researched sector. The contributors analyse how each country's…

Asserts that, among the concerns in recent research in moral development, has been the steps involved in moral judgment stage development. Reports on a study of 490 college students and adults on the primary perspective-taking factors associated within the transition to mature moral judgment. (CFR)

This bibliography is an update of "Women and Geography: A Comprehsnive Bibliography." The volume is a cumulation of more than a decade of research on the scholarship of gender issues that have been conducted by geographers. References include published articles in U.S. and foreign journals, books, chapters of books, and papers presented at…

This paper attempts to discover and describe the salient common factors constituting four high school science teachers' role conceptions. In a year-long ethnographic study, two researchers worked as participant observers in various science classroom settings at an urban high school. Teachers in charge of these classrooms were interviewed on issues…

An exploratory study examined gender differences in writing in the essays of five male and five female freshman composition students. The findings suggest parallels between the writing and speaking behaviors of men and women students and between student writing and the work of male and female professional writers. The male students made few…

Investigates how clinical psychology graduate students and faculty at nine universities perceive the student role and student control over the academic environment. Despite high correlation between student and faculty attitudes toward student characteristics needed for success, students rated stress management significantly higher. Suggests that…

Maintains that interreligious learning takes place most beneficially among people who are reasonably secure in their own relationship with God and also are comfortable with the mystery of that relationship. Argues that people with little tolerance for mystery and ambiguity will become uncomfortable with other religious experiences. (MJP)

Discusses some of the modern events that have mandated a reconceptualization of the traditional relationship between Christianity and Judaism. These include an understanding and awareness of past stereotypical representations, the birth of the modern state of Israel, and knowledge of the end result of intolerance as represented by the Holocaust.…

Maintains that an understanding of the different ways that people encounter God engenders in us an awareness of human finitude and of God's greatness and mystery. Recounts several examples of encounters during the Catholic-Jewish Colloquium that illustrate this concept. Argues for a shared vision of pluralism and tolerance. (MJP)

Maintains that the need for reconceptualizing the relationship between Christianity and Judaism grows out of an American Jewish experience that differs greatly from those of previous generations. Discusses this experience and locates its greatest dichotomy in the traditional Jewish emphasis on identity rooted in history. (MJP)

This progress report of ethnographic research on instructional leadership focuses on a new elementary school principal's role formation in relation to teaching staff and district organizational culture. The project, which examines the prevailing notion of instructional leadership in school effectiveness literature, reveals a gap in perspective…

Provides a brief historical overview regarding the development of a religious identity. Explicates a number of questions that both guide and complicate this effort in modern times. Argues that traditional texts should be evaluated more in terms of their positive contributions than their dated elements. (MJP)