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Harpaz, Yoram – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2005
The article develops a theory and practice for teaching and learning in a Community of Thinking. According to the theory, the practice of traditional schooling is based on four "atomic pictures": learning is listening; teaching is telling; knowledge is an object; and to be educated is to know valuable content. To change this practice of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Traditional Schools

Stenhouse, Lawrence – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1988
This article is a brief sketch of Lawrence Stenhouse's views on the relation of research to educational action. He argues that teaching is best conceived as a practical art form, and that the artist is a researcher whose inquiry expresses itself in performance of his or her art.(TE)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Innovation

Wilhelm, Ronald – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1994
Summarizes an action-research project in which elementary teacher candidates enrolled in required multicultural awareness class observed classroom practices and interviewed mentor teachers at Dallas-Fort Worth schools about teaching practices, lesson content, and rationales related to Black History Month. Of the 48 schools studied, only 11 planned…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, History Instruction, Multicultural Education