Develops a theoretical argument for regulating school choice, using pluralistic concepts. Applies this argument to documentary and interview data concerning a 30-year-old French school choice policy. Because France and the United States have the greatest economic inequalities among Western democracies, the French experience with choice is…

This paper responds to commentaries on an original article which proposed decreasing the training of applied behavior analysts as if they were going to be researchers, because most are not. The paper supports high quality research but opposes inculcating proresearcher, antipractitioner values in graduate education and recommends trying harder to…

A teacher of sixth grade social studies classes describes how he implemented the core practices of the Foxfire approach, including student ownership, problem solving, and decision making; connections to the community; small-group teamwork; the teacher as facilitator and collaborator; and ongoing reflection and group self-evaluation. (SV)

Issues in deaf culture and literacy are addressed, including literacy versus reading and writing, the nature of deaf culture, the relationship between culture (particularly deaf culture) and literacy, the relationship between literacy and face-to-face communication, and application of theory to practice. (DB)

Kanpol's book "Towards a Theory and Practice of Teacher Cultural Politics: Continuing the Postmodern Debate" (Ablex, 1992) examines postmodernist thought in education. Redefining critical social theory and the notion of resistance in postmodernist terms, the author shows these ideas' relevance to common democratic struggles and resistance to the…

Describes a study that evaluated implementation of curriculum materials for secondary social studies in the Netherlands. The evaluation focused on individual teachers' actual use of these materials in their classrooms. A large discrepancy emerged between the curriculum developers' original intentions and the observed instructional processes.…

Delineates a series of nine questions concerning the study of adolescent friendships that must be addressed by theorists and empirical investigators. The questions concern comparisons between different types of relationships; peer relationships; individual differences; developmental differences; changes in friendship over time; friendship…

The dynamical theory of tides is often neglected in teaching oceanography because students have difficulty in visualizing the movements of the tides across the glove. A schematic diagram portraying amphidromic systems as mechanical gears helps overcome these problems. (Author)

Discusses (1) the type of relationship between educational research and teacher education most likely to produce effective teachers; (2) current models of the relationship between teacher education and educational research; and (3) necessary changes to resolve the differences between the first two issues. (SM)

Presents an overview of educational research and preservice teacher training in Norway from a historical perspective, focusing on general background for Norwegian educational research, new trends in educational research and teacher training, educational research and the status of teachers and teacher educators, and research-based teaching in…

This paper on speech production in children and youth with hearing impairments summarizes theoretical aspects, including the speech production process, sound sources in the vocal tract, vowel production, and consonant production. Examples of spectra for several classes of vowel and consonant sounds in simple syllables are given. (DB)

Chaos theory, based on quantum physics research, boasts six central concepts: the butterfly effect, onset of turbulence, dissipative structures, random shocks, strange attractors, and recursive symmetries and feedback mechanisms. This article examines five principals' daily experiences, focusing on participants' efforts to generate meaning from a…

Argues for journalism education that supports a pedagogy advocated by feminist and critical scholars who resist subservience to economically determined control. Offers suggestions for classroom strategies that encourage students to be independent, intelligent, and critical thinkers. (SR)

Notes that as teachers integrate social theory into the technical communication classroom, they interpret the connection between writing and culture in different ways. Describes four social pedagogies of writing--the social constructionist, the ideologic, the social cognitive, and the paralogic hermeneutic--distinguishing them by their pedagogic…

Educators fascinated by restructuring should ask what promise this new idea holds for instructional improvement. Ultimately, restructured schools should make supervision a humanizing experience offering practitioners greater control over student learning. A renewed vision of school and university collaboration could transform both preservice and…