Between 2001 and 2007 I conducted a self-study action research enquiry into my practice as a primary school teacher. The research had a collaborative aspect to it, in so far as my pupils and colleagues were invited to participate in the research, although I was the focus of the enquiry. I was unhappy about my teaching: I felt I dominated the…

Provides examples of doublespeak which show that its use has increased since the Committee on Public Doublespeak was established 14 years ago. Points out that English teachers must teach respect for and love of language to instill in students a sense of outrage when they encounter doublespeak. (ARH)

The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, conducted by Charles Fisher, shows that students achieve more when they spend a relatively large amount of time on tasks that they can perform successfully. Teachers can enhance learning by structuring student time around high success rate tasks. (Author/GC)

Questions traditional composition techniques and their effects on student thinking and problem solving. Demonstrates how one high school English teacher responded to these classroom issues by reading relevant research and supplementing it with a study conducted on her own students. (HB)

Sims and Stamper suggest that open and nonevaluative discussions of sexually abusive behaviors, causative factors, avenues for relief, and resources for assistance can provide abused students with the security they need to seek assistance and report abusive situations. Jones et al. describe a research study of personal stories of abuse and the…

Contends that there is commonality in how researchers conceive of personal inquiry and presents a conceptual structure based on a "common place" notion of thinking and on research about differing views of teacher thought. This article is followed by three responses. (Author/BSR)

A group of 120 adult educators identified aspects of student behavior that annoy or irritate them and aspects of their role they fear or about which they feel guilty. A common source of conflict was conflicting teacher and student expectations. A conclusion was that adult educators should have a clear idea of their role and articulate it to…

This study investigated approaches to teaching social studies in Western Australian high schools. A conceptual scheme for teaching social studies, based on recognized orientations to the subject is presented. States that the results have implications for teachers, curriculum developers, and evaluators in the context of innovation and change…

The concept of career contingency is used to illustrate that the physical education teacher in a modern high school undergoes similar role conflicts and negotiates his/her social reality in ways similar to those of workers who occupy roles in other professions. (Author/NQA)

The ideas of the populist George S. Counts on education's role in fostering democratic economic change are relevant to a consideration of modern problems and the prospects for American socialism (defined here as community and worker control of economic production). Counts, writing in the 1920s and 1930s, felt strongly that capitalism no longer…

Educational policy, which did not really exist in the United States on a national level until the 1950s, might better be termed social-educational policy. Teachers are expected to be the agents of social change, achieving in the classroom such objectives as racial integration, general use of the national language, the memorization by students of…

Includes four symposium papers: "Was There Ever a Golden Age in Teaching?" (David Tyack); "Schooling More and Liking It Less" (David Cohen); "Understanding Teacher Attrition" (Richard Murnane); and "Attracting Talented Students to Teaching" (Jerome Murphy). (CH)

Reports children's feelings about the attempted assassination of President Reagan. Responses included fear for personal safety, loss of control, ambivalence, numbness, anger, cynicism, and despair. Discusses how teachers can respond to children in such a situation. (Author/DB)

The ways in which high school teachers cope with the potential boredom of their work runs the gamut from self-improvement through in-service education to leaving the teaching profession. (LH)

Discusses the legacy of the Hazelwood vs. Kuhlmeier case and its implications for school publications advisers. Discusses whether censorship is wrong-headed pedagogy for journalism educators teaching the importance and use of free expression in a democracy. Discusses the problem of pedagogy, academic freedom, and expression vs. authority. (SR)