Recent studies of teachers and teaching pay greater attention to relationships among teaching contexts, teachers' practical knowledge, and enacted curricula. As a contribution to this body of work, this study grappled with the problem of understanding the knowledge teachers use to create curricula within workplace demands. Survey, participant…

Provides technical description of system (SOCRATE) used to re-transmit searches from searching terminal to second, remote terminal, where end user or inexperienced searcher can observe search strategy development and interact with search. Use of the system as searching and training aids and experiences at Consorci d'Informacio i Documentacio de…

Offers an analysis of the various national reports on education issued between 1983 and 1986. Argues that as a group, the reports are as much political as they are educational documents. Contends that the recommendations of the reports are built upon a vision of the future economy that is wrong and that the educational solutions offered are…

Why we must subsidize intellectual curiosity in public schools is discussed and the need for a serious campaign to excite young people about teaching as one of the fundamentally most important professions available to Americans is examined. (RM)

Objective love can alter the learning process. The person who has habitually encountered success in his/her first and formative responses to the world tends to develop a positive-orientation (an attitude of objective love) toward novelty itself and may actually seek out new problems, new challenges, in anticipation of future success. (RM)

Questionable evidence employed in the report "A Nation at Risk" is discussed. There is a lack of national consensus regarding what we want from schools. It is proposed that the American Educational Studies Association develop a monograph-length statement presenting a guiding philosophy for American public schools. (RM)

A comparative analysis of urban public schools as learning environments during the early 1900s shows that although public schools in the early 1900s were ageist, sexist, and racist, they were, nonetheless, havens of liberating possibility. Schools today, although stripped of racism, sexism, and ethnocentricity, are nurseries of oppression. (RM)

Presents the text of and selected responses to John Dewey's lecture on the evolution of the automobile presented to the Etherial Cosmological Research Society. Dewey argues that the automobile became the dominant type of transportation because it provided the best answers to human, social, political, and economic needs. (AM)

These materials were designed for K-12 teachers interested in including Canada in the curriculum. The materials were developed to provide students with a basic level of familiarity about Canadian politics, history, culture, economic conditions, and relationship to the United States. Two classroom activities are provided for the elementary level…

Individual athletes are not primarily responsible for violence in sports. It is a product of the system. Sports leaders are responsible for allowing it and for curbing it. Contributing factors and consequences are outlined, together with recommendations for overcoming violence in youth sports. (IAH)