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Boote, David N. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
At the heart of many current debates about curriculum and curriculum policy is an inadequately conceptualized and articulated notion of teachers' professional discretion. This paper begins to detail a normative and descriptive theory of the social and individual conditions required for the development of professional discretion. A better…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Ponte, Petra; Beijard, Douwe; Ax, Jo – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This article outlines the experiences of educators in three teacher education institutes in the USA, Australia and the UK as they experiment with carrying out programmes based on ideas of action research. The emphasis is on experiences with programmes of initial education for secondary school teachers. A descriptive case study aimed to find out…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Comparative Education