This article looks at Professor G. H. Bantock's criticism that 'Dewey represents a threat to the whole tradition of European scholarship'. It concludes that Professor Bantock is able to make good his charge because Dewey himself did not appreciate the intellectual sifgnificance of the pragmatism he advocated. (Editor)

Article investigated some factors which affected the subject choice of children in their secondary education and thereafter. (RK)

The object of the present study was to investigate, by the use of repertory grid techniques (Kelly, 1955), the components of the images which sixth formers had of universities, and to explore how these related to particular universities or types of university. (Author)

Article was concerned with the job satisfaction, commitment, and general morale within the Australian teaching profession. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this work was to obtain further information as to the practicality of behavior modification procedures in the classroom. (Author/RK)

Recent British literature on home-school communication is discussed in relation to the rights of parents, teachers and pupils. (Editor)

Article considered experiments that tested the contentions of Piaget and Peel who believed that formal thinking is not established before 11-12 years of age. These studies were tied to the success achieved by pre-adolescent children in solving verbal three-term series problems. (Author/RK)

In this study, the data suggest that rising unemployment increases pupil motivation and thereby acts as an instrument of social control in schools as well as in the labor market; less equivocally, the data challenge current arguments alleging the demotivating and demoralizing effect of unemployment on school pupils. (Author/CT)

The author discusses the difficulties that might be encountered in using various assessments and examinations in evaluative exercises. In particular, the discussion focuses on assessments that are presented in the form of examination results. The author also discusses an approach to a more school-based and hence potentially more useful form of…

This article represents the findings of a small-scale, classroom-based investigation of 11- and 12-year-old pupils working in self-directed groups. It shows how a more holistic understanding of group work can be achieved when teachers and pupils "think together" to explore the dynamic, ambiguous, and often provisional links that exist between…

Describes a study of a group of teachers and the data collected on variables from an extensive series of psychological tests, biographical variables, and college examination variables. Issues concerning the future, both of the participants in the study and the research itself, are discussed. (CT)

Forty lessons given in secondary schools were observed and described in terms of the eight dimensions of a teaching rating scale: preparedness, pace and flow, transitions, cognitive matching, clarity, business-like, withitness, and encouragingness. The study indicated that this approach provided a useful heuristic device for the constructive…

This article relates to two problems: how to deal with individual differences in heterogeneous classes and how to plan and implement professional development programs in this area. The planning and implementation of such a program through a process of collaboration between researchers and teachers is reported in the study. (Author)

This article summarizes the main findings of a research study concerned with the position of team teaching in the secondary schools of England and Wales during the academic year 1983-84. A brief account is given of the nature and organization of team teaching schemes currently in operation. (Author/CT)

The article argues that the trend toward school-based examining and teacher involvement in coursework assessment and practical assessment seems likely to continue. The questions of what sorts of teacher involvement are in decline and what sorts are likely to expand, and with what consequences for local autonomy and curriculum development, are…