Discussed are the following issues regarding collaborative research (researchers and practitioners working together to study educational problems): how the approach developed; methodological and ethical issues related to the new relationship; and the roles and responsibilities of researcher and practitioner. (RM)

Current counter-culture threatens teachers and the school because they have lost the bargaining power with society. (VW)

For his Humanities Curriculum Project (HCP), Stenhouse defined the humanities as the study of human issues of universal concern. Because he viewed curricula as praxiologies (hypothetical strategies for realizing ideas in practice), secondary English teachers using the HCP materials were given general principles which they had to translate into…

Discusses a study tour sponsored by Stanford University (California) for which teachers were trained in curriculum development. Questions whether encouraging teachers to become curriculum developers represents empowerment or a distraction from teaching. Argues that teaching is unlike curriculum development. Presents challenges that teachers…

We analyse two narratives of teacher-facilitator teams producing elementary science curricula and disseminating them to their peers. We draw on these stories to interpret how teacher-facilitators position themselves with respect to other educators (e.g. peer teachers and development-team members), to real and imagined students and parents, to…

Argues that a model of "belief systems" can serve as a framework for systematic and comparative investigations of teaching. Reviews current research in cognitive psychology and relates this to the key functions of beliefs in teachers' thinking. Presents a theoretically-grounded framework for field-based research based on the Teacher…

Reviews arguments often advanced in favor of practitioner-done research (often called action research), identifies basic objectives of action research by teachers, and calls for a rethinking of the relationship of teachers to research and curriculum development. (Author/DB)

Suggests that curriculum workers take time to write accounts of their experiences in developing curriculum and maintains that the literature on curriculum development should contain more accounts and analyses by curriculum workers. (Author/DB)

Styles influencing curriculum development -- management models, liberal non-intervention, and the exclusion of affective for cognitive objectives -- fail to give an account of personal man in his culture. Through "cultivation of soul" some teachers provide a rational way to respond to the weaknesses of overly rationalized learning. (JH)

Discusses the current state of Canadian high schools. Examines the goal of competitiveness as a national policy and the debate over the purposes of education. Explores (1) a greater emphasis on basic subjects; (2) the use of performance indicators; (3) the demand for accountability; and (4) dropout rates. Argues that an economic agenda for…

Many observers have commented on disparities between the theoretical understandings of environmental education portrayed in academic literature and the environmental education that takes place in schools. In much of the literature and in curriculum documents there has been an increasing emphasis on promoting positive attitudes towards the…

Presents a case-study of the role of educational professionals in the passage of California's mandatory graduation competency legislation. Findings showed that the bill was noncontroversial despite its implications. Professional educators and scholars played a limited role in its formation. (AM)

Reviews research on curriculum development and implementation and presents a model of teacher involvement in curriculum development and implementation tested within the framework of a regional teachers' workshop in Israel. (DB)

Discusses changes in the traditional role of remedial education as a result of integrating students with learning disabilities into the normal curriculum. Describes roles of the remedial teachers and students in this changed situation. (KC)