Ninety percent of the 1977 entrants to general Teacher Education courses in Ireland (north and south) responded to a demographic questionnaire. Results are detailed and the two regions contrasted with respect to respondents' age, sex, entry qualifications, religion, social class, family background, school experience, and rural/urban origin.…

Comparative research on teachers' perspectives and classroom behavior must focus both on external systematic and institutional influences and on individual differences in teacher personality and background. One such systematic study of French and English elementary school teachers identified "meta-national" similarities and international, local,…