Develops a theoretical account of how teachers' perceptions of transformational leadership are formed. Provides an empirical test of this theory, which explains formation of teachers' leader perceptions as a function of alterable school-context conditions and unalterable characteristics of leaders and followers. Survey results from 423 schools…

Describes and analyzes a training program for school support agents carried out in Madrid, Spain, from 1990 to 1992. Explores the institutional, cultural, and personal factors influencing program implementation. Addresses problems involved in reconstructing the theory and practice of external support through inservice training of school support…

Describes the work of an Australian adult literacy and basic education teacher who mixes research and practice and a professional development project undertaken in the United Kingdom that was inspired by her work. (SK)

Discusses constructivism as philosophy, as learning theory, and applied to the science classroom. Discusses six major recommendations and strategies for science teaching that involve trying to help students change their beliefs to be more in line with those held by the scientific community. Notes activities science teachers can use to make their…

Explores two approaches (theoretical representation versus a modeling exercise based on artificial neurological networks) to a problem in organizational design: fitting together constraints making hierarchy advantageous with those favoring organizational learning. The modeling approach expands the scope of traditional theorizing about practice.…

Explores common conceptions of what constitutes knowledge in educational administration, how knowledge relates to practice, and how individuals in universities might characterize productive research as occupying a multidimensional space along why, who, and how dimensions. Discusses five guiding principles and need for a community of scholars.…

Discusses the importance of the scholarship of application, incentives for such scholarship (e.g., readiness of funding for directly applicable research), ways to evaluate such scholarship (create a more expansive peer-review process), ways to reward such scholarship, and ways to nurture such scholarship (rigorous training in methodology and…

UK educational administration scholars have undertaken a survey to redefine their field of knowledge. This is an exercise in "turf talk." The lack of regard accorded practitioners' situational and practical knowledge and headteacher associations' invisibility places the academy in an adversarial rather than a knowledge-sharing position.…

Introduces a collection of papers that examine the past, present, and future of the journal, Educational Theory, and the field of educational theory, highlighting the 1950s-90s. The essays focus on: being and doing; memory and forgetfulness; diversity and divergence; and deconstruction and reconstruction. Several recurrent themes evident…

A review of the literature reports that mental health research publications are infrequently read by counseling practitioners since most believe that research is not relevant to their practice. Proposes that the development of a faculty/alumni research alliance program based on invitational theory will help bridge the gap between the researcher…

Surveys the implementation of language experience and considers its benefits. Describes how teachers use language experience to demonstrate that language is used to express ideas and thoughts. Concludes that literacy educators need to redouble efforts to model Language Experience at all levels of professional development and to link theory with…

This reaction to S. C. Whiston and K. J. Coker (2000) discusses the research-training gap in counselor education and proposes an evidence-based model of clinical training. Asserts the importance of clinical training and education to the profession of counseling and argues that counselor educators may be inadvertently contributing to the gap…

Human service education students who are interested in pursuing a career in rehabilitation need to be cognizant of the prominent theoretical models that guide rehabilitationalists. This paper consolidates and synthesizes the literature and provides a quick reference for students to investigate each model in more detail. (Contains 28 references.)…

Describes a classroom activity to enhance understanding of how major theorists differ in their conceptualization and treatment of a client's problems. Participants either watched a dramatized play in which prominent clinicians discuss a case, or attended a comparable lecture. Results of a quiz indicate that students who watched the play…

Discusses communicative concepts, explores recent research-based communicative grammar activities, and provides detailed examples for the integration of these activities in the German foreign language classroom. (Author/VWL)