Describes three different ways of looking at literature instruction: curriculum as fact, curriculum as activity, and curriculum as inquiry. (SR)

Examines the relationship between past ways of understanding what it has meant to teach and learn in English classrooms and the present movement toward change. Argues that the central purpose of working in relation to the past is to guard against participating in a 'presentism' that denies the past. (NH)

Outlines time-saving strategies developed for teachers in liberal arts colleges to achieve balance in the areas of (l) teaching and research; (2) professional and personal life; (3) teaching writing and evaluating writing; (4) teaching and technology; and (5) high standards versus realism. (NH)

Discusses the need for instructional design students to be involved in real-world situations, and describes a program at San Diego State University that allows advanced graduate students to practice their consulting and instructional design skills with real clients. Considers the client-consultant relationship and describes a model of…

Examines four career theories: developmental theory, person-environment fit, social cognitive career theory, and social learning theory. Highlights the potential of each to inform school-to-work practices. Presents practical interventions. (Contains 41 references.) (SK)

Charts the development of counseling in Britain and speculates about possible directions counseling may take in the future. Focuses on counseling as a developing profession; the relationship between counseling and psychotherapy; the role of supervision; the development of standards and ethics; and the tension between relational and technical…

Expresses the author's personal view of evil as considered by psychotherapeutic theories. Challenges the psychotherapeutic tendency to avoid the moral and existential dimensions of evil via the transformative language of psychopathology that allows practitioners to rely upon metaphors of disease or immaturity. Presents an inter-psychic viewpoint…

Research on the purposes and methods of open and distance learning has been neglected compared to research on applications. Existing research suffers from an atheoretical approach. Such research should draw on theory from beyond education. (SK)

Discusses a paradigm for understanding the myriad of counseling theories and their corresponding intervention techniques. The paradigm organizes counseling theory and practice around three principles: a way of being, a way of understanding, and a way of intervening. The paradigm allows counselors to eclectically use various theories and techniques…

Argues against Hughes' recommendation for a comprehensive clinical case planning process since it cannot displace consumers' need for psychological practice guidelines which can be applied autonomously. Challenges the notion that theory has been omitted from current research on empirically supported treatments. Concludes the problem facing…

Concurs with Hughes' target article that identification of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) is insufficient to help practitioners and researchers select effective interventions for children, and suggests it may be premature to adopt developmental psychopathology as a treatment model. Discusses differences in opinion on theory development in…

Points out differences between target article and commentaries comprising special issue on role of theory in the science of treating children. All acknowledge the value of theory for psychosocial intervention, although some approach theory from different epistemologies. Argues that it is essential to the vitality of school psychology for…

Describes an effort to apply a theoretical perspective developed in one country (United States) to cope with the increasing demand for career services and limited funding in another country (United Kingdom). Explains the process used in the transnational career theory adaptation project and discusses the implications for adaptation among other…

Compares Carr and Kemmis' view of action research, linked to the emancipatory political ideology of critical theory, with Dewey's pragmatic epistemology, focused on moving from a problem identified in experience through a means-end continuum that guides inquiry. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)

Explores why economics has been engaged in a bitter turf war with its disciplinary rivals in marketing and management, and its "war cry" concerning its command of science and theory. Asserts that the exodus of students to the more pragmatic rival disciplines is because economic theory is "moribund" and in comparison the "real world" disciplines…