This paper explores the idea of a formalized "critical space" in higher education, using elements of Habermas's theory of communicative action and ideas from Barnett, Englund, and Marginson. Inquiry in this hypothetical space would use knowledge generated in existing domains to engage in dialogue, debate, and development of proposals and…

This article provides a theory-based, step-by-step approach to intervention development and illustrates its application in India to design an intervention to promote tobacco-use cessation among school personnel in Bihar. We employed a five-step approach to develop the intervention using the Social Contextual Model of Health Behavior Change (SCM)…

Urges teachers to become involved in developing and planning gifted and talented programs in their schools. Notes three barriers to program initiation: money, colleagues, and administrators. Suggests 10 guides for success in obtaining programs and stresses that success depends on hard work, risk taking, commitment, and working with others. (SB)

Intended for reading specialists who wish to become expert resource persons, this book provides a number of suggestions on how to bring about change in the attitudes of other educators concerning the place of the reading specialist in regular classroom settings. The nine chapters of the book provide the following information: (1) an overview of…

The first national survey to see how the clinical professorship had been implemented indicated that there was little agreement on the role of the clinical professor. (MM)

Discussion focuses on initial introduction of procedures to teachers, relation of teachers, relation of teacher personality variables to technique selection, factors to consider when evaluating children for modification, and suggestions for continued participation and withdrawal of the psychologist as an active agent in such programs. (Author)

The authors offer remedial techniques which might help counselors to deal with children with learning disabilities. Ninety-five percent of children with learning disabilities suffer difficulties in the visual and auditory modalities. Children with visual problems may experience difficulties in visual discrimination, visual-motor coordination and…

Various aspects of program planning and implementation in the Texas Teacher Corps Network are explored. The following topics are covered: 1) program conceptualization and design; 2) intern and team leader recruitment; 3) Teacher Corps experiences dealing with graduate admission processes and their implications for change; 4) management of Teacher…

This document relates the experiences of individuals who have embraced the concept of developmentally appropriate practice in kindergarten and made the effort to translate their understandings into practice in public school settings. The book's primary authors are a kindergarten teacher, an elementary school principal, a school superintendent, and…

For this overview of the extent and feasibility of practitioner involvement in professional improvement, practitioners are defined as school-based professionals--teachers, aides, resource specialists, and administrators. Current thought on the need for these individuals to play major roles as decision makers in developing inservice programs is…

This paper describes a method of research to examine the process of effecting educational change through adopting innovative ideas. Twenty-nine elementary teachers in the process of adopting a complex curricular innovation were studied. Because of the complex nature of this process, ordering theory was used as the method for analyzing the adoption…

This report examines political conflict in decision making in three public schools, and describes how the Teacher Participation Project (TPP), which was implemented in two of the schools, sought to minimize such conflict by institutionalizing local governance structures for teachers. The report consists of two parts. Part I investigates various…