Examines the range of meanings evoked by a particular photograph as a means of challenging readers to consider the complexity of teacher research. (SR)

Describes the establishment of SIG/CON in 1975, its development, and the group's function to "explore the fundamental notions of information science, and expose them for what they are." Provides a full citation list of SIG/CON published research presentations. (AEF)

Explores the analogy of the researcher as fortune teller and the parallels between research histories and horoscopes and discusses the tension between what the subject is and what he or she is imagined to be by others. (SLD)

Describes how a school of education piloted an interdepartmental team teaching effort that merged two courses, including conflicts, classroom dynamics, face-to-face collaboration, time commitments, and differences in personality and teaching approach. (SK)

A review of 50 articles on giftedness analyzed the degree to which four world views (contextualism, organicism, formism, and mechanism) shape the thinking of scholars in the field. Results indicate philosophical biases toward contextualism and organicism in terms of subject-matter emphasis and a bias toward mechanism in the preferred research…

Discusses how the author learned to make a research assistant (RA) a part of the administrative package. Shares her ambition to make available good teaching editions of out-of-print novels by Victorian women writers. Suggests coediting new editions of a literary text with RAs and/or post-doctorate students. (SG)

Illustrates the significant contribution journal writing can make to deepening researchers' understanding of all facets of the research processes. Argues that such journals can provide other researchers with illuminating insight into the research process. (Author/VWL)

Uses data from a 1995-96 national survey of agricultural scientists at land-grant universities to investigate the relative importance of 19 sources of influence on agricultural scientists engaged in six areas of agricultural research: productionist-oriented, sustainable agriculture, environmental, basic, consumer-oriented, and rural…

A teacher and a researcher provide alternate interpretations of the teaching and learning that occurred in an adult English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. They conclude that mutual collaboration must include all phases of a research project. (SK)

Discusses matters that arose from the implementation of a national scheme to provide better career management for research staff. Proposes recognition of a role for researchers in the wider educational functions of a university. (DDR)

Considers the doubts the author has had about the design of an award winning study, focusing especially on a researcher's obligation to help the teachers with whom the researcher is working, even at the risk of jeopardizing a study's design. Traces the way that her engagement with that question has led to her current professional commitments. (SC)

Investigated how teacher research group members pursued inquiry in their classrooms and how inquiry affected their teaching. Using the self-extending system of strategies for analysis, connections are drawn between the work children do in learning to read better and the work teacher researchers do in learning to teach better. The paper highlights…

Considers the potential for teacher research to change ideas about who is responsible for producing knowledge, the benefits and dangers of inserting the self into the social sciences, and the challenges of presenting problems of practice from within practice. (Author/SK)

A survey of 127 (of 300) Illinois swine producers found that 114 owned computers; the majority used industry magazines as sources of information about new technologies; extension newsletters were used much less by corporate farm enterprises; very small numbers used electronic mail; only about half used university specialists for information; and…