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"Mullin' the Yarndi" and Other Wicked Problems at a Multiracial Early Childhood Education Site in Regional Australia
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Kameniar, Barbara Maria; Imtoual, Alia; Bradley, Debra – Educational Policy, 2010
In this article, Grint's model of leadership is used to shape discussions of how "problems" are responded to in the context of a preschool in an Australian regional town. Authority styles are described as command, management, or leadership. These authority styles result in approaching problems as "crises," "tame…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Differences, Foreign Countries, Problems
Why Educational Research Has Been So Uneducational: The Case for a New Model of Social Science Based on Collaborative Inquiry.
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Torbert, William R. – 1981
Educational research has thus far failed to greatly improve education because it is based on a model of reality that emphasizes unilateral control in both research and practice. Efforts to gain unilateral control presume that researchers or practitioners know what is significant from the outset, that they are essentially outside the situation they…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Discovery Learning, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices
A School Geography Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century? The Experience of the National Curriculum in England and Wales.
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Rawling, Eleanor M. – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Discusses the 1991 adoption of geography national standards in England and Wales and the subsequent 1995 revisions. The original standards reflected a conservative emphasis on physical geography as well as a complete rejection of problem solving and critical thinking. The 1995 revisions restored some key ideas and broad emphases. (MJP)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives