A three-stage research project in Iceland traced the development of interpersonal competence of 8- to 11-year-old students in solving communication conflicts, developed an intervention and prevention program, and studied the professional development of 14 teachers in relation to students' sociomoral and interpersonal competence development. (SLD)

Expands the description of the teaching-learning process to a teaching-studying-learning process that emphasizes the active role of the student. Suggests that interaction is the central concept in this process and considers direct and indirect interaction. (SLD)

Developed a scale for measuring an individual's tendency to see himself or herself as an inner-directed agent or as a pawn, an outer-directed creature and tested the scale with 49 Norwegian college students. Reliability and validity results are promising. (SLD)

Addresses the nature of knowledge that works in practice in the context of professional education and learning, suggesting that knowledge that works plausibly can be viewed as causal knowledge of action-result linkages. Explores the difficulties involved in data-based inferences. (SLD)

Reviews recent studies with respect to two causal relationships between reading disabilities and behavior problems: behavior problems lead to reading difficulties, and reading difficulties cause behavior problems. Suggests an underlying factor of early language difficulties for both reading disabilities and behavior patterns. (SLD)

Reexamines materials from an ethnographic study of science-education laboratory work in a teacher-educator course through the lens of three Marxist concepts: alienation, reification, and commodity fetish. Concludes that the potential for generating criticism of science in teacher education is squandered because of a fetishized notion of science.…

Studied the relationships among students' backgrounds in terms of parental education and socioeconomic level, Finnish linguistic influence, and reading literacy for students in Swedish-speaking schools in Finland. Data from two national studies indicate that home background is more significant for reading literacy than is linguistic background.…

Studied how understanding arises through interviews with 30 first-year university students. Found three main categories of conceptions: (1) experience; (2) mental construction; and (3) merging with reality. Relates results to constructivist models of learning and other phenomenographic studies of conceptions of understanding. (SLD)

Describes Q methodology and describes its application to counseling education because of its ability to give meaning to transitive thought. Suggests Q methodology as a useful systematic approach for counselors to learn about themselves and to include the feeling part of thought in their practice. (Author/SLD)

This paper is concerned with the role that schools can play in engaging young people in their learning, and helping them to develop skills and attitudes that will give them an orientation towards learning for life. To meet the needs of an era of lifelong learning, schools need to view themselves as a stage in the ongoing learning process, where…

Articles in this issue vary widely in method, content, and sample size, but come together to produce a valuable collection of knowledge about education in the Pacific Basin, with emphasis on issues of under-representation. The articles are: (1) "Effects of a Culturally Competent School-Based Intervention for At-Risk Hawaiian Students" (Douglas C.…

Examines the ways in which parents and teachers interacted with children while listening to them read. Finds that parents concentrated on decoding the text, while teachers read to the children or discussed the text with them (conversing). Reveals that conversing occurred frequently among teachers but not parents; behaviors demonstrate parental…

Describes an evaluation of the Parental Involvement in the Core Curriculum (PICC) Project that developed home-school practice in the curriculum at three London (England) schools. Suggests that teachers need to establish feasible initiatives for parental involvement. Concludes that teachers need more preservice and inservice support in order to set…

Discusses a survey of family literacy in which 30 Asian families with preschool children, whose first language is Urdu, Punjabi, or Gujerati, shared their home literacy experiences. Reports that parents encourage extensive preschool activities in the home, have high aspirations for the their children's education, and show an interest in…

Examines the family dynamics embedded in school choice through further analysis and recording of 137 interviews with parents choosing a secondary school for their children. Concludes that, behind a veneer of democratic decision making, it was parents, and predominantly mothers, who were making children's minds up. (CMK)