Explores the extent of teacher inquiry and how professional development can promote schoolwide inquiry within seven urban elementary schools, highlighting the regular, systematic inquiry present in two schools and organizational contexts that facilitate inquiry. As a key element of professional community, the ways that inquiry contributes to other…

Describes an action research project conducted while teaching a course about action research. Eight doctoral students and a professor co-taught the course, demonstrating aspects of action research and modeled research methodology for their students. The project helped them study their own teaching and their students' learning and demonstrated…

K-12 teachers completed an inservice designed with a constructivist perspective to foster their professional development regarding student motivation. Participants reflected on their professional expertise and practical knowledge in groups conducted by university researchers. At the end of the intervention, participants showed increased ability to…

Compared Professional Development School (PDS) and non-PDS graduates regarding retention in teaching, teaching effectiveness, and perceptions of professional preparation. Surveys of beginning teachers and principals found no differences in teacher retention. Principals rated PDS graduates higher in some aspects of teaching effectiveness. PDS…

Examined school-based teacher educators' beliefs about the principles, contents, methods, and evaluation of ongoing teacher education, using the teacher-researcher model. Survey data indicated that most respondents believed that ongoing teacher education must be developed around problems of professional practice and in contexts of curricular…

Conducted case studies involving life history conversations and observations with six teacher educators in a British graduate school of education. Results revealed that the teacher educators' knowledge was characterized by a number of dimensions, including intentionality, practicality, subject specificity, and ethicality. This knowledge was deeply…

Examined a teachers' relations with his students when he returned to the elementary classroom during a sabbatical from the university. Data from journal entries and reflections suggest that teacher-student relations are characterized by a negotiative process reflecting the situational nature of the relationship in the context of the larger…

Explores external quality monitoring in higher education, including types of external bodies, their modus operandi, and reasons for evaluation. Concludes that external evaluation is legitimating the status quo, failing to ask significant questions about the reality of learning experiences for students. Suggests that quality monitoring engage more…

Asserts that the problems of struggling university students are neither entirely technical, as suggested by traditionalists, nor entirely social/structural, as suggested by postmodernists. Suggests that these students need an alternative epistemological view, one that enables them to see themselves as creators of personal knowledge rather than as…

Examined whether learning journals are an effective teaching tool in science-based, adult learning. Found that non-traditional students are more skeptical than traditional students about using learning journals and more likely to use them as study tools; student perception and skepticism of the assignment may affect the objective of developing…

Examines pedagogical content knowledge obstacles that teachers sometimes face when teaching educational dance, discussing several pedagogical strategies related to teaching educational dance (eliminating challenges and determining skill levels, the role of the teacher, categories of educational dance, and contextual situations). These strategies…

Describes the shift in view concerning conditions of knowledge in education, examining the practical ramifications of positivism and ways in which it impacted relationships between professors and school practitioners. The paper discusses the emergence of phronesis as an alternative to episteme as an orientation to knowledge, exploring the…

Demonstrates how a final year student teacher takes up a two-stage methodology for reflective practice generated from the principles of traditional literary theory and cultural studies, particularly poststructuralism. He produced a personal reading of his field experience documented as a picture book, and then a critically alternative (re)reading.…

Describes the creation of a context within which elementary student teachers participated in literature studies, drama, and reflective writing in order to view critical textual incidents and contexts from multiple perspectives and expand their view of diversity, discussing in-role simulations that encouraged students to reexamine cultural beliefs…

Describes a cross-cultural, equal status internship designed to prepare teachers for diverse classrooms, examining its influence on prospective teachers' emerging sociocultural perspectives and raced identities and exploring successes and challenges of this experience and what has been learned about supporting more mature anti-racist identities in…