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Nolan, Brendan – Education in Rural Australia, 1997
A 5-year study of one-teacher schools was conducted by a single researcher in the remote North West Region of New South Wales, Australia. A personal narrative discusses problems of longitudinal research, peculiarities of gathering data in the chosen region, the close relationship of these isolated schools and their communities, and problems and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries

Walkerdine, Valerie – Oxford Review of Education, 1989
Explores the myth that female children perform poorly in school. Claims that teachers use negative language in evaluation of females, regardless of performance; thus legitimatizing the exclusion of females and supporting patriarchy. Discusses problems of women in academia and concludes that the empowerment of women threatens male academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education

Deem, Rosemary – Gender and Education, 1989
Explores some early findings from a sociological study of school governing bodies in two English local educational authorities (LEAs). Examines the extent to which sexism and racism arise during, and are reproduced by, school governing body meetings, and studies sex and race dynamics in the power relations of governing schools. (Author/AF)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Educational Policy, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education

Davenport, Elisabeth – Journal of Documentation, 1994
Presents the results of an analysis of sociotechnical issues and perceptions of electronic media to determine where electronic media fits the working habits of journal article producers. The outcome is a profile of a group of United Kingdom practitioners that is grounded in their perceptions of the publishing and research processes and their…
Descriptors: Authors, Community Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer System Design

Gallo, Michael A.; Horton, Phillip B. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1994
Reports on a study investigating the effect of direct and unrestricted access to the Internet on a group of high school teachers. Topics include how and when teachers elected to use the Internet; barriers to usage; factors that influenced continued use; and the transitions related to Internet use. (50 references) (KRN)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Educational Research

Williams, Cheri L. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1995
This study used interview transcripts, videotape recordings of classroom sessions, field notes, and classroom photographs to examine the theoretical and pedagogical stances of three preschool teachers concerning language and literacy development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Teachers held differing theories which influenced their…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Deafness, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
Swain, Merrill; Miccoli, Laura S. – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
Explores the emotive, social aspects of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning in small group settings, with special attention to the classroom experiences of an adult Japanese woman. It is argued that the opportunity to consciously reflect about her negative feelings concerning her abilities had a positive effect on her ESL learning. (24…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension

Smith, M. F. – Evaluation Practice, 1994
This paper summarized contributors' ideas about evaluation as a field and where it is going. Topics discussed were qualitative versus quantitative debate; evaluation's purpose; professionalization; program failure; program development; evaluators as advocates; evaluation knowledge; evaluation expansion; and methodology and design. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking

Lehrer, Richard; Franke, Megan Loef – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1992
Reports case studies using personal construct psychology and the logic of fuzzy sets to elucidate the content and organization of two elementary school teachers' knowledge of fractions and mathematical pedagogy. Results identified four personal constructions that affected classroom events; knowledge of fractions, general pedagogical knowledge,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Case Studies, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style

Weinholtz, Donn – Qualitative Health Research, 1991
Reports on subtle and intricate relationships among hierarchy, competition, and collaboration in medical education, with specific emphasis given to the daily working and teaching rounds conducted by attending physicians. Addresses the interdisciplinary education with health professionals, other than physicians, for three levels of participants in…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Graduate Medical Education

Hughes, Mary – Gender and Education, 1992
Using a feminist perspective, this paper attempts to quantify the position of women in educational policymaking in Britain in this century at national and local levels. Women have been in the minority and have not generally been a "shrieking sisterhood," guided primarily by feminist principles. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational History, Educational Policy

Brantlinger, Ellen – Feminist Teacher, 1991
Reports on interviews with 22 special education secondary teachers on their views concerning school-based sexuality education. Finds that teachers feel inadequately prepared to teach the subject, fear adverse community reaction, identify gender-related deterrents, and note a lack of support from male administrators. Also reports that teachers feel…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Observation Techniques, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Describes a project that assessed the impact of connecting rural public libraries to the Internet and the effect on librarians, local communities, and the larger Internet community. The evaluation approach, factors critical to project success, conclusions about public libraries and the Internet, and comments on the future of networked public…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)

Carillo, Teresa – American Behavioral Scientist, 1990
Claims multicultural research strives for inclusion of populations, and viewpoints, creating problems of focus, methodology, and research designs. Argues graduate courses in Eurocentric universities do not address issues, themes, and methods of multicultural research. Notes that dissertation work on minorities receives marginal status. (NL)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Environment, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Evaluation

Green, Charles S. III – Teaching Sociology, 1991
Presents an interview with Phil Nyden, a professor at Loyola University (Illinois). Describes his qualitative methods course. Includes his suggestion of a group project rather than individual research projects enabling students to focus on methodology rather than substantive issues. Lists course objectives: learning qualitative methods, applied…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Ethical Instruction, Ethics