An overview of research studies on education points up the fact that there has been an emphasis in teacher education research on how things are done in classrooms, almost to the exclusion of why. The "how" issues of control, management, and measurement lend themselves to the dominant research paradigm. The "why" issues of theory, intellectual…

A series of 11 propositions about the role of language in learning emerged from the data collected and analyzed in a semester-long collaborative seminar in language arts methods for inservice and preservice teachers. A discussion of each proposition reflects the data that support it. The focus was on teaching as inquiry or research for the…