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Lemish, Peter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1988
The praxis orientation is proposed as an approach to school-based evaluation that enables professionals to understand power relationships and act toward empowerment of the local school community. The orientation is offered as an alternative to the positivist power-control approach, which is critiqued. (TJH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Heyning, Katharina E. – 1997
This study explored the multiple effects of "professionalization" discourse on the creation of a new early childhood teacher certification program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study explored two questions: How is the influence of professional ideology on the construction of the program linked to university prestige and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Ideology