A field study of staff networks and personal "fields" (each person's ego-centered network) in two large secondary schools in a northern metropolitan area found that teachers' personal fields were important elements in the creation of the schools' curricula. (RW)

From a preliminary study of two secondary schools, the author of this report hypothesizes that four essential types of networks determine the character of the educational process. The most important of these is the individual teacher's personal field, the egocentric network of relationships growing out of the teacher's own personal interests. The…