This paper aims to show how the Goffman frame perspective can be used in an analysis of school and education and how it can be combined, in such analysis, with the frame factor perspective. The latter emphasizes factors that are determined outside the teaching process, while the former stresses how actors organize their experiences and define…

This article clarifies and systematizes different elements inherent in conceptualizations of adult education. Distinctions are made between an age aspect and a life-cycle aspect, and between the aspects of time, formality, organization, intentionality, and normality. (Author/LMO)

Interprets the historical development of major curriculum theories in terms of their relation to creativity as a goal of organized learning. Also explores the development by discussing the organizing of learning for creativity from the viewpoints of different sociological paradigms. (SLD)

This article discusses the contacts between Swedish and Polish educational theory and points to the influence of the Swedish educationalist Ellen Key on the thinking of the Polish pediatrician and educationalist Janus Korczak. Different approaches to Korczak's works are identified in international research. (SLD)

Explores the educational implications of cognitivism and Aristotelianism in the field of emotional research and discusses attempts to translate these ideas into educational practice. Uses a "post-Kohlbergian" perspective (L. Kohlberg, 1971, 1981) to consider the feasibility of moral education and emotion education in a school setting.…

Describes and compares the latest models of self-regulated learning, including those developed by M. Boekaerts, J. Borkowski, P. Pintrich, P. Winne, and B. Zimmerman. The comparison shows that theoretical background is an important differentiating feature. (SLD)