Summarizes research on student perception of schooling, identifying seven areas of knowledge about student perspectives on classroom life and suggesting several directions for further research. (MP)

Briefly discusses factors involved in conceptualizing teaching and learning as linguistic processes, providing an overview of methodological approaches emerging in the literature and presenting selective findings on the nature of teaching and learning processes from both teachers' and students' perspectives. (MP)

In reaction to presentations at the Airlie House Conference on the Implications of Research on Teaching for Practice, two papers (by O. Smith and N. L. Gage, respectively) discuss how far research on teaching has come as a field, while a third (by G. D. Fenstermacher) explains how implications of research on teaching can be used. (MP)