Describes the development of a practice-based methodology for researching "career" in constructive and critical terms. Suggests that career theories continue to be confounded by the dualism of human agency and social structure. Provides a detailed exposition of metaphor as a paradigm for practice-based research based on a synthesis of…

This paper explores the ideas of six adult educators from the 1920s to determine the relevance of their thinking to modern adult educators. Three were chose from Britain: Albert Mansbridge, Basil Yeaxlee, and Richard Tawney. From the United States, three influential theorists in the area were Edward Thorndike, John Dewey, and Eduard Lindeman.…

Reviews "Learning History" (Dickinson, Lee, and Rogers, 1984), a book which focuses on the nature and structure of history and the need to relate this to the psychological make-up of the pupil. Chapters cover such topics as: Why learn history?, the value of teaching history in schools, and how students learn history. (JDH)

Presents various approaches that have been used in multicultural education in England. Research on Gujeratis in Britain is used to illustrate the process of theory construction. (12 references) (LT)

Examines how different approaches to prevocational curricula can be related to four typologies of educational values: (1) liberal educational, (2) radical, (3) trainer, and (4) vocational. Attempts to illustrate specifically the direction that research could take by forecasting the ways in which systems of value will respond when faced with a set…

Traces the development of British and Australian television criticism from the mid-seventies. Suggests a conscious study of the characteristics of television as a cultural agent and as a text within a sociocultural context. (MS)

This material sets out recent thinking on career development to inform the future of Connexions and education for citizenship. It contains abstracts of significant publications; summaries of background thinking; references to sources of information and ideas; ways to link thinking to practice; and summary charts. Each of 10 sections is in 2 parts.…

Traces student comprehension in beginning economics course examinations in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. Demonstrates that males performed better on multiple-choice tests, females performed better on essay examinations, and that female learning rates were lower than male learning rates. Reviews the influence of precollege courses. Includes…

Reviews the development of philosophy of education in North America, Britain, and Australia, examining mutual influences and common characteristics and trends. The paper examines the role language has played in the evaluation of disciplinary traditions in different countries over time and discusses the influence of postmodernism. (SM)

Explores differences between teachers' typifications of boys and of girls as pupils in nursery schools in Britain and summarizes teachers' commonsense theories of these sex differences. For journal availability, see EJ 222 605. (Author/DB)

Presents an overview of changing concerns in British curriculum research since 1950. The discussion covers the role of government agencies in curriculum research, the demand for both practical curriculum evaluation and theoretical models, new directions of study and recent paradigm shifts. (AM)

Observed that teachers and students play reciprocal roles in learning. States that students learn in schemata units, and provides the list of teaching skills required to maximize these methods. Concludes that teachers must understand children's intellectual processes in order to nurture them. (NL)

Donald Shon's "Educating the Reflective Practitioner," new book on professional education as training in the application of theory to practice, is reviewed. Its implications for the training of college faculty, especially in Britain, are examined. (MSE)

Reviews recent trends in school effectiveness research from a British perspective. Discusses the achievements of school effectiveness research in destroying assumptions of school impotence in the face of family background. Examines criticisms of effectiveness research, recent research themes, factors associated with school effectiveness, positive…

Considers the phenomenological arguments for collaborative approaches to educational research. Urges that cooperation become a form of social and political critique. Illustrates the political context of research by drawing on a collaborative case study of British school governors. Contends that phenomenological and critical paradigms may be…