Suggests that failure of progressivist school reforms results in part from inadequate treatment of the relationship between pedagogy and classroom control, examining how schools in one Israeli progressivist school reform initiative cope with classroom control. Teachers' thinking and discourse are partitioned, with teaching and control issues kept…

Data from Jewish and Arab Israeli students and teachers illustrate how Arabs, educated in the Arab cultural context, "pass through" a western-oriented teacher education program, then return to teach in their own culture. Changes in Arab student teachers' beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge applications are traced as they make sense of knowledge…

Using examples from schools, this paper illustrates how knowledge management can enable schools to examine the plethora of data they collect and how an ecological framework can be used to transform these data into meaningful information. The paper highlights: the history of management information systems; shifts from information management to…

Investigated the individual and collective processes through which the feminist transformation in higher education has occurred, using data from interviews that examined respondents' academic career development as feminist scholars and experiences within their academic departments and university feminist communities. The three types of feminism…

Examines the complex ways that teachers experienced the September 11th attack, discussing its effects on pedagogy and on the urge to have schools participate in a complicated set of patriotic discourses and practices that swept the nation following the event. The paper asserts that educators must recognize their own contradictory responses to the…

Examines issues of sameness, difference, equality, and democracy in present public school systems, focusing on the question of (dis)ability and implications of rethinking (dis)ability as an ontological issue before its inscription as an educational one concerning the politics of inclusion. The paper analyzes old and new discourses of eugenics as…

Many adolescents experience sleep deprivation due to such factors as academic workload and social and employment opportunities. The ability to effectively interact with peers while learning and processing new information may be diminished in sleep deprived adolescents. Some school districts are changing school start times to allow students more…

Examines how the introduction of the Cleveland voucher experiment in 1995 affected the administration and leadership of Cleveland's public schools. As of summer 2001, the program has produced virtually no visible effects. Results suggest that choice-based reform may not spur improvement in urban school systems, at least in the short term or when…

Describes Michigan's effort to create a state language arts curriculum in the context of systemic reform, discussing the overlapping of various stakeholders with the state and other collectives that emerged. Although Michigan's educational system remains loosely linked, democratic, and contentious, the language arts effort heightened mutual…

Examined how a statewide reform initiative, when considered a professional development opportunity, impacted teachers' capabilities to become change agents and how district contexts shaped the development of these capabilities. Interview and artifact data indicated that teachers experienced changes in personal literacy practices and views of…

Examined two beginning high school teachers, one credentialed in English and one in science, as they taught English, suggesting that out-of-field teaching is very complex, identifying factors contributing to the complexity, and proposing conceptualizing out-of-field teaching as a matter of goodness of fit to take into account the relationship…

Examines four criteria that characterize John Dewey's view of reflective thought: reflection as a meaning-making process; reflection as a systematic, rigorous, disciplined way of thinking with its roots in scientific inquiry; reflection needs to happen in community, in interaction with others; and reflection requires attitudes that value the…

Asserts that John Dewey underwent a dramatic mid-career shift in thinking, addressing criticisms of two specific contensions (that Dewey backed away from the notion that the frustration of need-driven action begins the search for crative reorganization of behavior patterns and that Dewey disavowed instrumentalism). The paper also examines…

Evaluated the work of sixth grade students' creative problem-solving groups, proposing that providing students with specific guidelines about what makes an exemplary group product would improve the character of the discussion and quality of the group product. Student groups did learn as a result of their discussions and creation of group products.…

To determine how Dutch teachers framed observation, this study analyzed teachers' stories about teaching diverse learners, examining what they said about observing students. Results indicated that observation was embedded in the action of teaching, and teachers could not separate themselves from what they observed. An alternative view of…