Explains the rights of all students, no matter what their background, to have the opportunity to attain scientific literacy. Points out the challenges and opportunities teachers face in a diverse student environment and how culturally diverse students speaking different languages perform worse than native English speakers. Presents instructional…

Most traditional research methods establish an alienating relationship with those studied and disregard their personal knowledge. An educative research process is a dialogical approach that attempts to develop voice as a form of political protest and to give those studies the authority to pose questions and produce knowledge. (SK)

A grid, constructed from two traditional distinctions of knowledge (experiential and research-based knowledge), is used to analyze the relationship between theory and practice in teacher education. As a concrete example, the article reviews how theory and practice are integrated in the Finnish system of teacher education. (IAH)

The Association of American Medical Colleges' statement defines misconduct in research, discusses its prevention, and outlines suggested processes and policy for handling allegations of misconduct, appeal and final review, and disciplinary action. (MSE)

Presents a rationale for the self-study of professional practice and illustrates how the inquiry process can help make sense of professorial practice in education. Excerpts are included from life history interviews, individual and collective reflective writing, and electronic mail exchanges to explore the role of questioning in developing…

Defines a few major reasons for the frequent failure of laboratory instructional methods and outlines some modes of thinking that seem to promise greater effectiveness and firmer justification for maintaining the laboratory as an essential component of physics teaching. (MVL)

San Francisco's Exploratorium contains over 650 interactive exhibits that invite visitors (including 67,000 students on field trips yearly) to explore natural phenomena through individual hands-on inquiry and discovery. The museum's hidden agenda is helping schools incorporate inquiry and discovery into classrooms. Internet connections to Science…

A review of literature from 1983 to 1992 suggests that a more complete understanding is now possible of the information needs, uses, and information-seeking behavior of the humanities scholar. A current portrait of humanities scholars suggests that this client group is more diverse than previously assumed. (Author/JKP)

Examines procedures derived from ordinary-language philosophy to help students learn to investigate conceptual issues in art. Sets out and analyzes three procedures relative to art education and makes suggestions for further research. Maintains that the principles and proficiencies in philosophical inquiry can be introduced and reinforced in all…

Eighty-five second-year science education students participated in a study designed to compare the effectiveness of two different methods (inquiry vs. traditional) of teaching on the achievement and intellectual ability of students. Results favored the experimental (inquiry) group. (ZWH)

This commentary responds to a critique (EC 601 711) of a paper (EC 211 387) concerning use of cluster analysis to develop a taxonomy of lifestyles of families with severely mentally retarded children. The commentary considers the model to be useful in social science inquiry, and properly validated when using cluster analytic techniques. (JDD)

Sixty-four charts from a child psychiatry outpatient department were reviewed before and after clinicians were instructed to directly query sexual abuse. Only 6.9 percent of charts initially indicated sexual abuse, compared to findings of 31.4 percent (11.5 percent of boys and 50 percent of girls) after children were asked about molestation.…

A child-centered model for elementary school gifted science education is proposed, utilizing an open environment, the scientific method, the teacher as facilitator, and techniques for affective development to attain scientific concepts, develop scientific skills, and foster appropriate scientific attitudes. (JDD)

Authoring provides a powerful model for promoting and studying teacher thinking. The paper explores the development of one teacher's thinking in terms of voices expressing an expanding community of selves, noting narrative and voice and thought construction processes. Narrative self-inquiry helps teachers construct a new community of selves. (SM)