A survey of all Ohio vocational education directors (N=113) and 55 trade and industrial supervisors received 46 and 91 responses, respectively. Respondents indicated that entry-level supervisors needed greatest understanding of the value, importance, and benefits of vocational education; articulation of business needs to vocational education;…

Outlines antecedents and consequences of typography and Sixteenth Century Protestant educational reform to show how curricular innovation led to a bureaucratic discourse of social control. Argues that compulsory schooling for mass literacy gave rise to the institutionalization of childhood, and to state-controlled techniques of normalization and…

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (EAHCA) is examined with regard to the law's view of education. This inquiry maintains that EAHCA holds that education is not only academic instruction but also whatever makes academic instruction possible. (IAH)

This article examines equality in education within the context of two larger conflicts--the breakdown of the largely liberal consensus that guided much educational and social policy since World War II and the growth of the new right and conservative movements. (IAH)

Traces the evolution of public schooling as an attempt by progressives and others to absolve citizens of Original Sin and unweave the world view of traditional Christianity. Argues that the removal from schools of Christian beliefs about morality, labor, self-control, and death signals a wish to collectivize the American masses and restore a…

Education's main purpose should be to achieve understanding, but such understanding is hard to achieve because educators have little knowledge of how to teach for it and students harbor intellectual habits that inhibit performances of understanding. The article emphasizes that students' access to disciplinary tools is crucial in quality education.…

Underscores the need for specialized native teacher training programs, describing university and community college programs fulfilling this need. Discusses the necessary anthropological, sociological, and historical foundations of Native American education. Highlights instructional methodologies for native students, including culturally responsive…

Presents education theory from a metatheoretical viewpoint based on a 1980-87 study of the cultures of academic disciplines (involving American and British academics). Two dimensions are discussed, one running from generality to particularity and one from simplicity to complexity. Interrelationships between the dimensions and implications for…

Presents a methodological model for orienting teacher researchers. The grounded theory approach is examined, noting it may not be a valuable paradigm. An alternative is proposed which uses quality criteria for professional action as the criteria defining research. Teacher research must concentrate on developing reflective features of professional…

Discusses the importance of philosophy of education in elementary education, arguing that philosophical reflection by teachers affects educational reasoning, thus strengthening curriculum development and teacher practice. Five contributions that philosophy of education can make to teacher development are described. (SM)

Comments on Tozer's position paper on the social foundations of education, offering further historical background that provides a relevant context for Tozer's statement, current realities that make such ongoing dialog important, and future possibilities, alternatives, and cautions for effective action on behalf of the social foundations of…

The paradigm within which educational effectiveness has been studied has played out. A new paradigm that fully integrates educational-effectiveness research with ongoing school improvement and reform processes is emerging. Studies show reconceptualization of the field may lead to research-driven reforms to shake the foundations of schooling. (27…

Examines unclear and sometimes erroneous notions about multicultural education (e.g., it is the same as ethnic studies and it is an effort to affect college admissions), discussing: the relationship of multicultural education to education in general; the theoretical basis of the field; the relationship between multicultural education and the…

Discusses a two-year participant observation study of a kindergarten class. The study sees the rituals of schooling (e.g., the children's entry into the classroom each morning) as rites of passage through which morality can be conceptualized as an everyday part of schooling and a part of schooling educators actively shape. (SM)

Notes the need to rethink the importance of foundational courses in teacher education, critiquing important issues for practice; describing one foundations course; highlighting the need to examine what teachers are doing when they teach teachers; and drawing on Maxine Greene's philosophy to detail the quest to prepare teachers who can build a more…