Discusses trends in adolescent research during the previous six years, including theoretical/methodological orientations and substantive foci, conceptual themes, and future directions. Describes the increasing stress on both the ecology of adolescent development and on the dynamic interactions between this ecology and both intraindividual change…

The nine articles of this theme issue explore interaction between children and adults, a theme of increasing importance in educational psychology. Also explored are ways in which context contributes to the sense the adult-child dyad makes of the situation and factors that influence cooperation between the participants. (SLD)

Examines the assessment of work-based learning, noting distinctions between "pure" and "professional" knowledge by offering a genealogy of learning; asserting that the distinction between academic and non-academic learning has become what Dewey termed a false dualism; examining relationships between judgment, activity,…

Data were collected via brief telephone surveys of middle school and high school teachers responsible for tobacco use prevention education (TUPE) in Florida. Differences in teachers' perceptions of TUPE were significantly associated with perceived barriers and features of school contexts. Implications of these findings for the effective delivery…

Surveyed and interviewed Israeli elementary and secondary teachers to provide support for an expanded conceptual model of teacher self-efficacy, the Classroom and School Context model. This re-conceptualization considers teacher tasks and relationships in both the classroom and school organization context. Results found a good fit between the…

Describes an analytic approach for situating teachers' instructional practices within the institutional settings of their schools and districts, examining an ongoing collaboration with urban teachers to illustrate the approach and its usefulness in guiding the development of analyses that inform such collaborations. The approach involves…

When encountering a word for the first time, information about it is connected to information from the context. There are four levels of word knowledge: never having seen it before; having heard of it but not knowing what it means; recognizing it in context; and knowing it. A full and flexible knowledge of a word involves understanding the core…

This narrative review examines contemporary perspectives on positive adjustment in children and proposes a developmental-ecological perspective as one theoretical lens through which to view positive school adjustment. Critiques the empirical literature on contextual factors contributing to school satisfaction, one marker of positive school…

Examines introductory genres and their various realizations, conventionally used to introduce academic books and variously named as "introduction,""preface,""acknowledgement," and "publishers blurb" to investigate their nature, function, and structure within the context of current theory in genre analysis…

Defines higher order learning and its component parts, and describes how it can be taught. Argues that effective strategy training interventions use multicomponent interventions, embed strategy training interventions, offer practice of higher-order skills within the context of existing curricula, explain the utility of different cognitive and…

Elaborates on some issues in the debate between Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental approach and a narrative, relativistic, approach to studies of moral development. Reviews the concept of self in both approaches, ideas on the Cartesian rationality underlying Kohlberg's theories, and the reliance of the self on language in narrative approaches.…

Suggests that Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental approach and narrative, relativistic, approaches to moral development--which are seemingly opposed--may be integrated, each addressing an aspect of moral concerns. Explains how the approaches may address different aspects of theories of self, stresses the need for better interpretive rationale in…

Examines personal preferences in the development of categorical folders for bookmarks in terms of both the choice and definition of folder domain and the overall structure of the folder system. Considers contextual factors, such as intended use and relevancy to current projects; and navigational preferences. (Author/LRW)

Investigated the relationship between the school context and teachers' views of themselves as professionals. Israeli vocational high school teachers, who taught high- and low-achieving students, matched images of themselves as teachers with drawings of other occupations and commented on their choices. These metaphors helped raise teachers'…

Draws on research in cultural anthropology and cultural psychology to place the current movement toward qualitative methods of inquiry in historical perspective. Asserts that a new methodology of achievement motivation--one that seeks to identify the cultural and personal meanings of educational performance through methods that clarify its…