In this article we examine "meaning" and "action" within the "good" work of teaching and learning. One premise of our argument is that teachers and students deserve to experience this good. The second premise is that meaning is part and parcel of Being; the debate about meaning must include attention to meaning as a question/project of Being. We…

This article illustrates the importance of anthropology to the multicultural approach to education and depicts the relationship between anthropology and multicultural education as both reciprocal and intimate. (MM)

A form of preservice teaching experience is needed that will promote intellectual growth as well as allow for practice teaching and professional socialization. (MM)

Truly sound teacher education curricula are those which consciously work toward making connections: connecting practice to theory; curricula to life; courses to clinical work. Teaching should relate to a concept formation cycle involving real-world and simulation experiences through which students learn. (JN)

The underlying purpose of instruction in community leadership is to help teachers learn how to participate effectively with other institutional leaders in the solution of pressing educational and social problems. (JD)

This research inquires whether an ethnographic (descriptive anthropology) approach to the study of teaching could yield new insights into the teaching-learning process. (MM)