Attempts to suggest a set of verbal labels which could be used to describe occupational characteristics, as perceived by grade 9 students, and to group these labels into parsimonious clusters. Also obtains a set of bipolar-adjective scales for use in measuring perceptions of occupational characteristics. (Author/RK)

An examination of the professional self-concept of student teachers was made during the practicum in a program whose structure seemed likely to minimize its negative effects by providing for gradual transition into teaching, a high level of support from supervisors, and an extended continuous period of teaching. (Author/RK)

Examines the reaction of teachers toward the employment of parent volunteers in classrooms, particularly with reference to the extent to which teachers hold professional attitudes, i.e., in terms of possessing positive attitudes towards high standards of professional knowledge and skill and a dedication of service towards children. (Author/RK)

Describes the Mt. Currie Native Teacher Education Program, based in a small reserve community 100 miles from Vancouver, Canada. Five basic issues involved in the development of the program are community involvement at the local level, incorporation of native language and culture, decentralization, entrance requirements and paraprofessional…

This research attempts to assess the effectiveness of primary school children from first-versus second-language schools in oral communication and to investigate the relationship between role-taking skills and communicational effectiveness by comparing the results of this research with those of an earlier one. (Author/RK)

The promotion of educational reform by Perren Baker and the members of his Education Department in Alberta, Canada, are discussed. The important task he undertook, the upgrading of the rural educational system of Alberta, was not immediately successful but his efforts paved the way for William Aberhart, who was able to reorganize rural school…

Manitoba's first School Act in 1871 placed the administration of schools under a Board Of Education, divided into a Protestant and a Catholic Section. In 1890 the Manitoba Liberal government led by Thomas Greenway abolished the board and placed education under a department of education. Discusses the developments that led to that change and the…

The focus here is on category observation instruments which typically record classroom behaviors in the form of tallies, checks, or other marks which code them into predefined categories and yield information about which behaviors occurred and how often they occurred during the period of observation. Discusses the essential properties of the…

Participant-observation techniques and some existing studies using these techniques are examined to illustrate the utility of this alternative methodological approach to traditional educational research and development. Also explores some problems peculiar to this alternative method. (Author/RK)

Assuming that McLeish's (CJE, v.1, n.4, 1976) preference for the Skinnerian variant of behaviorism is a correct scientific approach the author criticizes an implicit assumption of his research, i.e., whether or not behaviorism is under siege. (Author/RK)

Discusses the Canada Studies Foundation as a Canadian approach to curriculum development and provincial cooperation, and includes two brief cross-national comparisons, one with the United States and the other with the United Kingdom. (Editor/RK)

Combines information gathered from questionnaire data, from field visits, from teacher interviews, from documentation, and from attending Foundation conferences, in assessing the Canada Studies Foundation. (Author/RK)

Reports the findings of a survey of published and unpublished documents produced by and about teacher developers, to determine what professional and personal changes are reported as a result of involvement in projects supported by the Canada Studies Foundation. (Author/RK)

Explores three curricular theoretic concerns: investigating the theoretic in "the practical" of curriculum development, reconceptualizing the concept of curriculum implementation, and reformulating a curriculum evaluation paradigm. (Author/RK)

Discusses various dilemmas of teacher-centered curriculum development evident in the work of the Canada Studies Foundation, particularly that arising out of the effort to develop national programs by locally or regionally based teams. (Editor)