Using a case study of the learning processes of a secondary school art teacher, relationships among individual dispositions, communities of practice, and organizational and policy contexts were examined. Both the individual's learning career and community of practice must be considered within the wider context. A discipline other than art, in a…

Interviews 36 community college faculty and administrators, and examined leadership beliefs and contextual conditions that affect diverse perspectives. Results suggest that individuals' positionalities (by gender, race, ethnicity, role within the institution, discipline or field of study, among other characteristics) appear to be related to…

A schema a frame creates context and shapes interpretation. Using an "as if" framework can connect the contexts of training and job performance to improve transfer. Techniques that create "as if" situations include role playing, visualization, psychodrama, voice dialogue, improvisation, playback theatre, and six-steps reframing. (Contains 23…

Examines aspects of individualism, collectivism, and self-differentiation in 123 African American women attending a predominantly White university. Results reveled that aspects of individualism and collectivism were differentially related to self-differentiation in African American college women. Implications of the findings are discussed.…

Proposes to reexamine the construct of self and its development in Chinese children. Analyzes Chinese children's self-concept in two distinct domains--the domain of learning and the domain of social relations. Demonstrates that Chinese children's self-concept has a strong autonomous component in the context of learning and achievement while…

This article examines the role of race in the college classroom. Two types of college institutions in which the author has had personal teaching experience are examined. It is argued that educators should tailor a particular pedagogy on the basis of the unique contexts in which they teach. (Author)

Examines the individual and neighborhood variation in perceived risk along dimensions of substance abuse and usage patterns. Risk perceptions were found to be more closely tied to one's direct experience with drugs rather than a general constellation of beliefs. Illustrates the complex links between individual and contextual factors in the…

This essay reflects on the publication's symposium on rules in residential environments, discussing points of agreement among authors and attempting to place them within a broader perspective of Rulers and the Ruled or They and We. A call is made for advocacy and involvement beyond the publication of journal articles. (PB)

Examines three theories of research--mechanistic, organismic, and contextual--and concludes that a contextual world view would give the multidisciplinary field of home economics a unified focus. (SK)

The relationship between young children's social competence and the goals of early intervention programs is explored, focusing on the significance of peer-related social competence, the development of peer social competence skills in young handicapped children, the nature of assessment and intervention strategies, and the importance of the social…

Extent of resemblance in the communicative behavior between dyads that share common members was examined by means of linguistic and conversational measures. Findings indicated that although there was considerable consistency in the linguistic output of dyads within a 15-minute interaction, there was no consistency across dyads that shared a common…

Describes two studies that analyzed the impact of problem type on the understanding of commutativity of multiplication of (n=20) children ages 8-10. The concept seemed poorly understood, but the children did significantly better in the context of rotation than of rearrangement of elements. (Author/MKR)

This study examined the impact of environmental print over a 4-year period with 28 children (initially ages 3 and 4), all with severe to profound hearing losses. A four-phase environmental print task was administered annually for four years. Results are interpreted in terms of recognition and interpretation, constructing meaning from print, and…

Investigates whether Arabic orthography differs from an alphabetic orthography regarding context effects among poor and skilled readers. Finds that skilled as well as poor readers significantly improved their reading accuracy when they read voweled and unvoweled words in context and that skilled readers significantly improved their reading voweled…

Applies the social relations model (SRM), designed to analyze nonindependent data, as a solution for studying the ways in which group members interrelate and influence one another that avoids some of the data analysis problems indigenous to group psychotherapy research. Discusses examples of applications of SRM to previously inaccessible research…