This study examined the presence, origins, contents, and purposes of Internet acceptable use policies in 100 selected K-12 schools. Discusses results of descriptive and qualitative analysis of an online survey and content analysis, including areas of liability, online behavior, system integrity, content quality, and consequences of violation of…

Examines the innovative capacity of primary schools in the Netherlands comparing the schools with high innovative capacity to schools with low innovative capacity focusing on four components: (1) the context of the school; (2) collaboration among teachers; (3) school leadership; and (4) the school as a learning organization. Discusses the findings…

Illustrates the role of technology and multimedia in enhancing research through the use of examples from qualitative approaches to inquiry. Discusses characteristics of qualitative techniques; impact of technology and multimedia on data collection, analysis, and presentation; using research for educational change; and improving research practices.…

Site visits to 11 agriscience high school programs and interviews with 11 teachers showed that (1) teacher attitudes had significant impact on African-American enrollment in agriscience; (2) high-tech, science-based programs enrolled more African-American students; and (3) schools with an African-American agriscience teacher had higher…

Describes a graduate seminar on qualitative research methods in which 19 European-American men and women educators interview African-American educators and students on issues of race and racism. The data reveal six ways that race conflated with racism. Racism is also constructed as an all-black/white experience and a social agenda in public…

For learning to change, teaching, teacher education, and educational policies must change. Reform must take into account teacher knowledge and beliefs about learning and teaching. Educational researchers should employ qualitative methods. (SK)

Evaluation study showed the PASSKey (Planned Activity, Strategic Sampling, Keystone behavior) model of service delivery to be reliable in increasing accountability of parents and teachers in early-childhood interventions. Case study results (N=28) are included. (EMK)

Analysis of observational and interview data concerning teacher speech and educational philosophy in inclusive classrooms with deaf students found teachers directed fewer utterances, on average, to deaf than to hearing students. Inclusive philosophies focused on an individualized approach to teaching, attention to deaf culture, advocacy, smaller…

Discusses issues surrounding teacher research and the validity of qualitative study, exploring one teacher researcher's route through a small-scale qualitative study. The article uses attempts to implement a critically ethnographic approach and dilemmas of trying to live the theoretical principles of the research methodology as the basis for…

Outlines certain ways that educators might remap certain assumptions about and discussions of pedagogy, focusing on the paradoxes of authority and power. Three sections present moments of theory and practice, examining excessive pedagogy, excessive writing, and excessive research. (SM)

Studied mother-daughter incest. Common themes were extracted from in-depth interviews with survivors of mother-perpetrated sexual abuse, some of which parallel the experience of survivors of other forms of child sexual abuse, and some of which are more specific to mother-daughter incest. Discusses themes and counseling implications. (JBJ)

This article examines the relationship between an adolescent with behavior disorders, his family, and the system of care, through a single case analysis. The methodology used to collect the case record and interview data and to analyze and graphically illustrate the data are presented to demonstrate use of qualitative data in program evaluation.…

Two chapters of this issue consider critical multiplism as a research strategy with links to meta analysis and generalizability theory. The unifying perspective it can provide for quantitative and qualitative evaluation is discussed. The third chapter explores meta analysis as a way to improve causal inferences in nonexperimental data. (SLD)

Examines the impact of policies, practices, and attitudes of employers toward new parents by interviews with seven women and six men who had recently returned to work after becoming first-time parents. Findings pointed to considerable differences in the attitudes of employers to the men and women. Discusses implications for organizational careers…

In examining factors relating to how married couples make work and family decisions, concluded gender and marriages are constructed and, in turn, reconstructed through the decisions couples make about work and family. Qualitatively analyzed longitudinal data gathered from 61 couples who made a work and family decision. Takes a feminist critical…