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Watts, Gary D.; McClure, Robert M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
The most significant development in education since World War II has been the growing professionalization of teachers and teaching. This article traces this development from the original bureaucratic supervision model through the 1970s "advocacy revolution" to the recent push for full empowerment. Pioneering efforts in selected districts…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Participation
Flake, Carol L.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Research emerging from practice has a natural life in schools, because the questions are more appropriate, the investigations more straightforward, and the findings more valid for school practice than research conceived, conducted, and interpreted in higher education settings. At the University of South Carolina, interns are being prepared as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Spaulding, Robert L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Offers 12 steps for increasing students' self-directedness and "time on task" in the classroom and displays the positive results of a recent study in an unspecified California high school that examined the effects of individualized inclass "calendars" designed to meet the needs of various types of students. (JBM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Environment
Wasserman, Selma – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Roland Christensen describes case-method teaching as a "complicated interaction" that seeks "to blend cognitive and affective learning modes." A Vancouver (British Columbia) high school incorporates Christensen's principles by presenting social studies problems drawn from real events and corresponding to the eleventh grade…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
