This book aims to provide a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with innovative forms of ethnographic writing. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book offers advice, examples, and exercises for every step in the ethnographic writing process, including field observation, field notes, narrative development, and editing. It…

Fieldwork provides an opportunity to reinforce previous class-based learning and presents students with an opportunity to encounter new ideas and practice new skills. In the K-12 classroom, however, the rhetoric-reality gap between the declared need for fieldwork and doing fieldwork is striking. This project seeks to narrow the gap between…

A broad scientific perspective that recognizes the child's social environment is needed in school psychology practice. The chances of influencing change expand when psychologists switch from an intrapsychic model to a social systems (group process) framework for testing referrals. Intrapsychic explanations create a mechanism for educators to avoid…

Noting that observing preschool children at play allows teachers to understand how individual children develop their social skills, this article describes different levels of social play and shows how teachers may use a running record and check list to assess such play. Children are described as engaging in onlooker play, solitary play, parallel…

Super bookstores have entered into many communities across the United States, and they have caused library professionals to defend and debate the similarities and differences between the bookstores and libraries. Most of the literature on the topic consists of editorial or opinion articles focusing on the differences in services provided by the…

In this study, fourteen teachers were trained to use a contingency management program emphasizing the reinforcement of appropriate conduct while minimizing attention to inappropriate conduct. Twelve of the fourteen experimental classrooms improved dramatically as a result of the program. (Author/NE)

This study investigated how one important variable, the child's performance, affected the teacher's perception of a child and the causal source of his performance. (Author)

Pretest measures of paired-associate learning and mediational skill were obtained on 36 educable mentally retarded children in primary grades, after which the children were assigned in groups of 12 to an intentional training condition, an observational learning condition, and a control group condition. (Author/MC)

Impressions of what teachers experience when they are registered in a graduate level course as students and the ways in which they accommodate to their new role are analyzed by the research method of participation-observation. (Author/KM)

Article offers the analysis of an observer who might be from another planet, and his critical thoughts about the American system of education. (RK)

The present investigation was concerned with the manner in which changes in children's behavior to one dispenser of reinforcement (Experimenter A) might affect behavior to another dispenser (Experimenter B). (Author)

Study investigated the nature of elementary teachers' priorities of behaviorally stated objectives of instruction and the practice of these priorities in the classroom. (Author)

Study to determine the relationship, if any, between the levels of thinking used by the teacher and those used by pupils. (Author/CB)

This project was undertaken to train teachers in more effective contingency management by extending the amount and kind of training. (Author)