Focuses on the nature and role of teaching principles. The article discusses the nature of teachers' maxims through analysis of teachers' accounts of their teaching and lesson protocols. Findings indicate that these maxims reflect cultural factors, belief systems, experience, and training. Understanding the importance and influence of these maxims…

Examines how two competing identities--one educational and the other, workplace--are negotiated by further education (FE) students and sustained through the FE provision in Britain. The article argues that the competing educational and workplace identities are constituted in the contradictions and ambiguities inherent in FE. (42 references)…

Examines alternative A-level syllabuses of second-language courses with a view to establishing what implicit definitions and interpretations of cultural learning they embody. The article focuses on that part of course content that fosters understanding of a foreign culture as an integral part of communicative competence. Assessment objectives are…