This issue of "Irish Educational Studies" focuses on curriculum and learning issues and includes: (1) "Aesthetic Perspectives in Curriculum Reform" (D. Murphy); (2) "Drama: Less Talk, More Action" (M. Drury); (3)" Out of Tune with Reality: Music and the School in Ireland" (M. O'Suilleabhain); (4) "Erotics, Not Hermeneutics" (T. Mullins); (5) "The Context of Creative Writing" (S. O'hEili); (6) "Foundations and Practice of the New Curriculum" (H. Gash); (7) "The Design of Irish Primary School Buildings in the Era of the New Curriculum" (J. Kavanagh); (8) "Teaching the Logic of Subjects" (K. McDermott; P. Caulwell); (9) "Post-Primary Science Education: Evolution or Degeneration?" (B. Reidy); (10) "The Curricular Impact of Computers in Education" (J. Kelly); (11) "Teagasc na Gaeilge san Iarbunscoil" (M. O'Fathaigh); (12) "Try-Out of an Instructional Management System in Primary School Mathematics" (J. Close); (13) "Critical Variables in Relation to Differences Between the Mathematics Achievement of Girls and Boys" (B. Sugrue); (14) "Enterprise Development and Entrepreneurship in Third-Level Courses in Ireland" (A. White); (15) "Higher Level Vocational Rehabilitation: The Development of a New Service" (P. Davies); and (16) "A Progress Report on the 1936-86 Project at Shannon" (J. Gleeson). The second part of the volume contains 18 articles including: (1) "Left Brain, Right Brain," (S. O'Suilleabhain); (2) "Half Your Future? A Discussion of the Notion of a Common Educational Policy for Europe" (D. Swan); (3) "The Effect of Standardized Test Information on Teachers' Assessment of ABility in Their Classes" (P. Archer, P. Fontes); (4) "The Marino Graded Word Reading Scale at Third Level: Some Insights" (E. O'Baiollain); (5) "Management and Accountability: A Post-Primary Perspective" (L. Murtagh); (6) "School Management and Curriculum Development" (A. O'Shea); (7) "Principals' Delegation and Posts of Responsibility in Dublin National Schools" (D. Herron); (8) "Organisation Structure and Climate: A Study of Four Large Community Schools in the Dublin Area" (K. O'Meara); (9) "Choice of School, Competition, Resource Allocation and Curriculum Change: A Case Study" (M. Hanley); (10) "Identity: A Covert Pedagogy in Northern Irish Schools" (D. Murray); (11) "Microteaching, Classroom Interaction Analysis and Teacher Self-Evaluation: Developments in the Higher Diploma in Education Course at Maynooth" (M. Chathain); (12) "Models of Teaching: Toward the Construction of a Meta-Model" (F. Flanagan); (13) "The Provision of Technical Education in the City of Cork, 1850-1920" (K. Byrne); (14) "The Trim Model Schools" (L. Walsh); and (15) "Archbishop Walsh and St. Mary's University College, 1893-1908" (F. O'Driscoll). (JHP)