Examined Israeli teachers' attitudes toward multiculturalism and the relationship of attitudes to perceptions of school organizational culture. Overall, pluralistic attitudes were higher with regard to integrating immigrants into the general society, while assimilationist attitudes predominated when referring to integrating immigrants into…

Investigated the relationship of teacher and student ethnic background to their perceptions of teacher interpersonal behavior. Data from surveys of and interviews with Asian- and Hispanic-American high school teachers and their students indicated that teachers viewed themselves more positively than did their students. Student and teacher ethnicity…

Compared priorities given to various value orientations by Quebec secondary school physical educators and their U.S. counterparts. Surveys of 266 teachers indicated that overall, Quebec teachers prioritized value orientations differently than did U.S. teachers, giving high priority to subject matter and low priority to social skills. The opposite…

Examined the work of four facilitators involved in five different approaches to literacy reform ranging from externally adopted to internally developed interventions. Findings highlight the different roles of facilitation as viewed by the facilitators themselves in relation to these varied approaches to reform. Facilitators gave very different…

Surveyed and interviewed Norwegian graduate students to determine if being attached to a professor's research project improves the effectiveness of the learning experience--for example, contact with supervisors and other students, and time to degree. Found a positive effect across all field of study, although differences in project organization…

Presents a case study of three international students' social, cultural, and study experiences in an Australian business communication class (conveyed through drawings), and some questions and concerns they raised in this context. Found that students not only have a pragmatic view of their education, but also have specific expectations and goals…

Using an auto-ethnographic case study about a "day in the life" of a new professor as the basis for discussion, reports the reactions of newly-appointed and more-experienced academic staff toward ethical questions. Applying Forsyth's taxonomy of ethical ideology, found that experienced staff were more inclined toward a "situationist" position,…

Explores the pedagogical implications of Ronald Barnett's claim that teaching in higher education must confront, celebrate, and augment a world of radical unknowability. In examining Barnett's body of work, significant reference is made to the insights of Martin Buber and Paulo Freire in relation to Barnett's conceptualization of potentiality and…

Suggests that inclusive learning environments need to be reconceptualized as contexts within which a "democratization of knowledge" occurs. Draws on experiences as a tutor in a professional development course for university lecturers to explore this reconceptualization, looking in particular at issues to do with experiential knowledge, gender, and…

Defines pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), summarizing relevant research. The paper describes how teachers can develop rich PCK, focusing on three comprehensive teaching models that can be used to enhance teachers' PCK (sport education, a tactical games approach, and ecological task analysis). The paper concludes by highlighting strategies for…

Surveyed first-year students at the University of Western Sydney about their perceptions of responsibility for learning and conceptions of learning. Found that students held perceptions of personal responsibility for their learning, but that their conceptions of learning were essentially quantitative in nature and were at the lower levels of…

Introduces a collection of articles on the spectrum of teaching styles, a framework of instructional models based on teacher and learner decision making. The article discusses national standards for physical education and reviews the feature articles, which highlight psychomotor, cognitive, and social development spectrum style; maximizing…

Describes how the Spectrum Teaching Styles can help physical educators develop an instructional environment that allows learners to meet the national content standards for physical education while providing learners with a quality educational experience. The paper discusses the development and use of the Spectrum and the development of…

Describes benefits of and challenges to achieving the national standards for physical education by using the Spectrum reciprocal style of teaching, discussing how it can be linked to all seven of the national standards for physical education and how all three of the learning domains (psychomotor, cognitive, and social) have some connection, with…

The power of the inclusion style of teaching is in that learner performance can be assessed from the perspective of standards related to all three of the learning domains. It allows teachers to address diverse students' individual needs, which is particularly important in physical education, where classes have significant discrepancies in…