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Download full textLittle, Judith Warren – 1981
This report describes a collaborative research effort to examine the nature, role, and impact of staff development in an unspecified desegregated, urban school district. The report outlines the study which was conducted as a short term focused ethnography in three elementary and three secondary schools employing both interview and observation as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedLittle, Judith Warren – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Juxtaposes the issue of professional development, specifically teachers'"opportunity to learn," with how the workplace context of teaching supports impedes curriculum integration between vocational and academic education. Portraits of three urban high schools reveal the problem of professional development as one of reinventing the high school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Collegiality, Educational Change, Educational Policy
