This report discusses the kinds of objectives that supervisors should pursue and proposes an approach that emphasizes human resource development and organizational enrichment as proper emphases for modern supervisors. The author illustrates the advantages of his approach over traditional and contemporary supervisory approaches by considering four…

Our ways of thinking about the world determine the methods we find useful for studying the world. These methods in turn determine what we learn about the world and therefore how we define reality. As aspects of cultural science, teaching and supervision should not be studied using methods suitable for the natural sciences--the cultural sciences…

Describes an alternate approach to the technical/rational methods of teacher supervision. Proposes a naturalistic supervisory practice and lists the assumptions on which it is based. (RK)

The four papers which comprise this booklet on supervision are entitled a) Human Resources Supervision; b) The Case for Staff Development; c) The Advisory System and Supervision; and d) Beyond Accountability. The introduction presents previous views of supervision and discusses implications of recent teacher entrenchment. The first paper contrasts…