Differences between Teachers of the Year and inservice teachers and the effect of teachers' gender, years of teaching, grade level taught, and highest degree earned were evaluated using the Teacher Belief Questionnaire. Results indicated that Teachers of the Year were significantly more humanistic in their student control beliefs than were matched…

This case study examined the criteria one high school physical education teacher employed in acquiring the knowledge he found necessary for his professional practice. Through interviews, observations, artifact and document analysis, and stimulated recall from videotapes, it was determined that the teacher had developed five distinct knowledge…

This article defines two approaches to pupil control--custodial and humanistic--and reports results of an investigation of the relationship between teacher control ideology and behavior and their influence on quality of life for students. Subjects were 239 elementary and secondary teachers and their students from 5 school districts. (IAH)