EChO (Early Childhood Organisation Inc.) is a group of Australian professional educators whose focus is the education and care of children ages 3 to 8 years. This paper outlines a project effort made by EChO entitled "Enhancing Professionalism for Early Childhood Educators in South Australia by Improving Classroom Practice and Researching…

Research on teaching can be concerned with teaching in general or it can be conducted with a single kind of subject matter. Which kind of research is more advantageous? This issue arises in the planning of programs of research on teaching. The generic approach looks for uniformities, concepts, and principles that apply across all or many subject…

This article elaborates on the notion that theoretic discourse, as employed in the natural and behavioral sciences, is partly inappropriate for curriculum work and that the language of curriculum writers must be ordinary language. (Author/MLF)

Educational evaluation is ideally much broader than the examination of students' work at stipulated intervals. It addresses the selection of objectives, the methodology, the capability of management, the adequacy of data sources, the resources required, and even the alternative educational purposes that could be served. This study evaluates the…

The ratio of journalism students choosing advertising to those choosing a news-editorial emphasis has risen dramatically in the 1980s. To determine whether students are rejecting the news-editorial curriculum based on their beliefs that occupations in this field offer low salaries, poor working conditions, and less creative opportunity than…

Social studies documents were collected from teachers in the Tucson, Arizona area and examined using three theories of culture as a way to explore the interrelationships between social studies curriculum and United States society. Malinowski's functionalist position suggests that culture is composed of traits each of which provide a specific…

The relationship between teacher appraisal and educational research in the United Kingdom is illustrated by the personal and professional experiences of an educator. An autobiographical analysis of this relationship, in light of M. Foucault's analysis of the relationship between power and knowledge, is presented. A clear relationship between…

Curriculum research is reviewed. In Part 1, a survey is reported that was designed to: (1) acquire information on action research projects in Ireland (North and South), the United Kingdom, and the United States; (2) determine the principal method of data collection; (3) identify the rank-order priority of constraints on research; (4) classify…

Opportunities for and limits upon diary writing in one second/third-grade classroom are examined with the purpose of stimulating critical thinking about two issues: (1) the diary's potential within the school writing curriculum, and (2) the classroom as an environment for the teaching and learning of writing. Field notes, teacher journal entries,…

This paper was one of two presentations made at a session designed to provide for the field of curriculum and assessment of its methodological and substantive status, as well as an assessment of the implications of that status for practice. The recent history of the field is sketched briefly. The ideas "curricular possibilities" and "improvement"…

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The purpose of this paper is threefold: to describe grounded theory research strategies, to present a summary of several studies in education that have followed this approach, and to explore the potential uses of the grounded theory techniques in curriculum theory generation. The paper is arranged into six parts. In the first and second parts of…