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British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 25  Number 5  December 1999

Editorial 579

Steve Fuller. Making the University Fit for Critical Intellectuals: recovering from the ravages of the postmodern condition 583

David Bridges. Educational Research: pursuit of truth or flight into fancy? 597

Kathy Sylva, Jane Hurry, Helen Mirelman, Andrew Burrell & Jeni Riley. Evaluation of a Focused Literacy Teaching Programme in Reception and Year 1 Classes: classroom observations 617

Jane Hurry, Kathy Sylva & Jeni Riley. Evaluation of a Focused Literacy Teaching Programme in Reception and Year 1 Classes: child outcomes 637

David Skidmore. Divergent Discourses of Learning Difficulty 651

David Johnson & Geraldine Lewis. Do you like what you see? Self-perceptions of Adolescent Bullies 665

David Hopkins, Alma Harris, Rob Watling & John Beresford. From Inspection to School Improvement? Evaluating the Accelerated Inspection Programme in Waltham Forest 679

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Ian Schagen. Large Can—Not Many Worms: an evaluation of the role of age-standardised scores in the presentation of assessment data 691

Peter Tymms. Response to Ian Schagen 698

Ian Schagen. Last Word 702

Book Reviews 703

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 25 715


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 25  Number 4  September 1999

Special Issue: Post-compulsory Education. Guest Editors: Inge Bates, Phil Hodkinson & Lorna Unwin

Editorial 419

Maírtín Mac an Ghaill. ‘New’ Cultures of Training: emerging male
(hetero)sexual identities 427

Sheila Riddell, Alastair Wilson & Stephen Baron. Captured Customers:
people with learning difficulties in the social market 445

Michael Young. Knowledge, Learning and the Curriculum of the Future 463

Frank Coffield. Breaking the Consensus: lifelong learning as social control479

John Field. Schooling, Networks and the Labour Market: explaining
participation in lifelong learning in Northern Ireland 501

Stephen Gorard, Gareth Rees & Ralph Fevre. Patterns of Participation in
Lifelong Learning: do families make a difference? 517

Hugh Barr, Marilyn Hammick, Ivan Koppel & Scott Reeves. Evaluation Inter-
professional Education: two systematic reviews for health and social
care 533

Denis Gleeson & Farzana Shain. By Appointment: governance, markets and
managerialism in further education 545

Book Reviews 563


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 25  Number 3  June 1999

Editorial 275

Ivor Goodson. The Educational Researcher as a Public Intellectual 277

Tony Brown, Olwen McNamara, Una Hanley & Liz Jones. Primary Student
Teachers’ Understanding of Mathematics and its Teaching 299

Steve Farrow, Peter Tymms & Brian Henderson. Homework and Attainment
in Primary Schools 323

Diane Reay & Dylan Wiliam. ‘I’ll be a nothing’: structure, agency and the
construction of identity through assessment 343

André Elias Mazawi. Concentrated Disadvantage and Access to Educational Credentials in Arab and Jewish Localities in Israel 355

Alison Crutchley. Professional Attitudes and Experience in Relation to
Bilingual Children Attending Language Units 371

Andy Miller & Gerv Leyden. A Coherent Framework for the Application of
Psychology in Schools 389

Book Reviews 401

British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 25  Number 2  April 1999

Editorial 139

Barry Hutchinson & Peter Whitehouse. The Impact of Action Research and
Education Reform in Northern Ireland: education in democracy 141

Catherine Clark, Alan Dyson, Alan Millward & Sue Robson. Theories of Inclusion, Theories of Schools: deconstructing and reconstructing the ‘inclusive school’ 157

Steve Strand. Ethnic Group, Sex and Economic Disadvantage: associations with pupils’ educational progress from Baseline to the end of Key Stage 1 179

Paul Andrews & Gillian Hatch. A New Look at Secondary Teachers’
Conceptions of Mathematics and its Teaching 203

Irene-Anna N. Diakidoy & Elpida Kanari. Student Teachers’ Beliefs about
Creativity 225

Kathy Hall & Wendy Nuttall. The Relative Importance of Class Size to Infant
Teachers in England 245

Book Reviews 259


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 25  Number 1  February 1999

Editorial 3

Pamela Lomax. Working Together for Educative Community through Research (Presidential Address) 5

Maurice Galton, Linda Hargreaves, Chris Comber, Debbie Wall & Tony Pell.
Changes in Patterns of Teacher Interaction in Primary Classrooms:
1976–96 23

Rosie Turner-Bisset. The Knowledge Bases of the Expert Teacher 39

Ann Kitchen. The Changing Profile of Entrants to Mathematics at A Level
and to Mathematical Subjects in Higher Education 57

Julian Elliott, Neil Hufton, Anthony Hildreth & Leonid Illushin. Factors
Influencing Educational Motivation: a study of attitudes, expectations
and behaviour of children in Sunderland, Kentucky and St Petersburg 75

Neil Mercer, Rupert Wegerif & Lyn Dawes. Children’s Talk and the
Development of Reasoning in the Classroom 95

Anne Pirrie. Rocky Mountains and Tired Indians: on territories and tribes.
Reflections on multidisciplinary education in the health professions 113

Book Reviews 127


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 24  Number 5  December 1998

Editorial 449

Alison Millett & David C. Johnson. Expertise or ‘Baggage’? What Helps
Inspectors to Inspect Primary Mathematics? 503

Meindert Beishuizen & Julia Anghileri. Which Mental Strategies in the Early
Number Curriculum? A Comparison of British Ideas and Dutch Views 519

Rosemary Webb, Graham Vulliamy, Kirsti Häkkinen & Seppo Hämäläinen.
External Inspection or School Self-evaluation? A Comparative Analysis
of Policy and Practice in Primary Schools in England and Finland 539

Phil Hodkinson. The Origins of a Theory of Career Decision-making: a case
study of hermeneutical research 557

Peter Woods, Bob Jeffrey, Geoff Troman, Mari Boyle & Barry Cocklin.
Team and Technology in Writing up Research 573

David Bridges. Research for Sale: moral market or moral maze? 593

Peter Foster & Martyn Hammersley. A Review of Reviews: structure and
function in reviews of educational research 609

David Gillborn & Caroline Gipps. Watching the Watchers: research, methods,
politics and equity. A Response to Foster & Hammersley 629

Book Reviews 635

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 24 643

British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 24  Number 4  September 1998

Special Issue: Families and Education. Guest Editors: Anne West and
Peter Hannon

Editorial 379

Pamela Greenhough & Martin Hughes. Parents’ and Teachers’ Interventions
in Children’s Reading 383

Roger Hancock. Building Home School Liaison into Classroom Practice: a need
to understand the nature of a teacher’s working day 399

Kath Hirst. Pre-school Literacy Experiences of Children in Punjabi, Urdu and
Gujerati Speaking families in England 415

Diane Reay & Stephen J. Ball. ‘Making their Minds Up’: family dynamics of
school choice 431

Lyn Tett & Jim Crowther. Families at a Disadvantage: class, culture and
literacies 449

Anne West, Philip Noden, Ann Edge, & Miriam David. Parental Involvement
in Education in and out of School 461

Book Reviews 485


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 24  Number 3  June 1998

Editorial 251

Harvey Goldstein & Peter Blatchford. Class Size and Educational Achievement:
a review of methodology with particular reference to study design 255

Alex Gibson & Sheena Asthana. Schools, Pupils and Examination Results:
contextualising school ‘performance’ 269

Nurith Bar-Eli, Michael bar-Eli, Gershon Tenenbaum & Chris Forlin. The Tutoring Process and its Manifestation in the Classroom Behaviour of Tutors and
Tutees 283

Morwenna Griffiths. The Discourses of Social Justice in Schools 301

John Coldron & Pam Boulton. The Success and Failure of Positive Action to
Mitigate the Effects of an All-male Senior Management Team in a
Secondary School 317

Keith Postlethwaite & Linda Haggarty. Towards Effective and Transferable
Learning in Secondary School: the development of an approach based on
mastery learning 333

John Wilson & Nicholas Wilson. The Subject-matter of Educational Research 355

Book Reviews 365


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 24  Number 2  April 1998

Editorial 123

Margaret Brown. Educational Researchers in Universities: the condition of
the workforce (Presidential Address) 125

Gary Thomas. The Myth of Rational Research 141

Barbara M. Walker. Meetings without Communication: a study of parents’
evenings in secondary schools 163

Jo Frankham. Peer Education: the unauthorised version 179

Mike Wallace. A Counter-policy to Subvert Education Reform?
Collaboration among Schools and Colleges in a Competitive Climate 195

Dean Garratt. ‘Régime of Truth’ as a Serendipitous Event: an essay
concerning the relationship between research data and the generation
of ideas 217

Book Reviews 237

British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 24  Number 1  February 1998

Editorial 3

Robert Phillips. The Politics of History: some methodological and ethical
dilemmas in élite-based research 5

Kenneth Ruthven. The Use of Mental, Written and Calculator Strategies of
Numerical Computation by Upper Primary Pupils within a ’Calculator-
aware’ Number Curriculum 21

Maurice Galton, Linda Hargreaves & Chris Comber. Classroom Practice and
the National Curriculum in Small Rural Primary Schools 43

Gill Helsby, Peter Knight & Murray Saunders. Preparing Students for the
New Work Order: the case of Advanced General National Vocational
Qualifications 63

Peter Blatchford & Clare Sumpner. What Do We Know about Breaktime?
Results from a National Survey of Breaktime and Lunchtime in
Primary and Secondary Schools 79

L. Green, S. Chedzoy, W. Harris, R. Mitchell, C. Naughton, L. Rolfe &
W. Stanton. A Study of Student Teachers’ Perceptions of Teaching
the Arts in Primary Schools 95

Book Reviews 109


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 23  Number 5  December 1997

Editorial 563

Anne Pirrie. The New Game: professional foul or own goal? 565

Jo Boaler. Setting, Social Class and Survival of the Quickest 575

Anne West, Jean Hailes & Pam Sammons. Children’s Attitudes to the
National Curriculum at Key Stage 1 597

Julie Davies & Ivy Brember. Monitoring Reading Standards in Year 6:
a 7-year cross-sectional study 615

Angela Jacklin & Colin Lacey. Gender Integration in the Infant Classroom:
a case study 623

Michael Littledyke. Science Education for Environmental Education? Primary
Teacher Perspectives and Practices 641

Neil Simco & Jo Warin. Validity in Image-based Research: an elaborated
illustration of the issues 661

Book Reviews 673

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British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 23 Number 4 September 1997

Editorial 403

David H. Hargreaves. In Defence of Research for Evidence-based Teaching:
a rejoinder to Martyn Hammersley 405

Jacky Brine. Over the Ditch and through the Thorns: accessing European
funds for research and social justice 421

Paul E. Newton. Measuring Comparability of Standards between Subjects:
why our statistical techniques do not make the grade 433

Sally Thomas, Pam Sammons, Peter Mortimore & Rebecca Smees. Differential Secondary School Effectiveness: comparing the performance of
different pupil groups 451

Steve Strand. Pupil Progress during Key Stage 1: a value added analysis of
school effects 471

Pamela Sammons, Anne West & Audrey Hind. Accounting for Variations in
Pupil Attainment at the End of Key Stage 1 489

Pat Broadhead. Promoting Sociability and Cooperation in Nursery Settings 513

Chris Holligan. Theory in Initial Teacher Education: students' perspectives
on its utility - a case study 533

Book Reviews 553


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 23 Number 3 June 1997

Special Issue: Reflexive Accounts of Educational Reform. Guest Editors:
Sheila Riddell & Carol Vincent

Editorial 251

Stephen J. Ball. Policy Sociology and Critical Social Research: a personal
review of recent education policy and policy research 257

Madeleine Arnot. 'Gendered Citizenry': new feminist perspectives on
education and citizenship 275

Michael Adler. Looking Backwards to the Future: parental choice and
education policy 297

Lindsay Paterson. Individual Autonomy and Comprehensive Education 315

Jane Kenway. Taking Stock of Gender Reform Policies for Australian Schools:
past, present and future 329

David Gillborn. Racism and Reform: new ethnicities/old inequalities? 345

Carol Vincent & Sally Tomlinson. Home-School Relationships: 'the swarming
of disciplinary mechanisms? 361

Jenny Corbett & Brahm Norwich. Special Needs and Client Rights: the
changing social and political context of special educational research 379

Book Reviews 391


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 23 Number 2 April 1997

Editorial 123

Donald McIntyre. The Profession of Educational Research 127

Martyn Hammersley. Educational Research and Teaching: a response to
David Hargreaves' TTA lecture 141

Val Brooks, Sue Barker & Peter Swatton. Quid Pro Quo? Initial Teacher
Education in Secondary Schools 163

Patrick Wiegand & Bernadette Stiell. Children's Relief Maps of Model
Landscapes 179

Christopher Day. Being a Professional in Schools and Universities: limits,
purposes and possibilities for development 193

Valerie Wilson. Focus Groups: a useful qualitative method for educational
research? 209

Elisabeth Dunne & Neville Bennett. Mentoring Processes in School-based
Training 225

Obituary. Peter Chambers 239

Book Reviews 241


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 23  Number 1  February 1997

Steve Sizmur. Look Back in Angoff: a cautionary tale 3

Margot Cameron-Jones & Paul O'Hara Support and Challenge in Teacher
Education 15

Anne Edwards Guests Bearing Gifts: the position of student teachers in
primary school classrooms 27

L. Kyriakides. Influences on Primary Teachers' Practice: some problems for
curriculum change theory 39

Neil Selwyn. Assessing Students' Ability to Use Computers: theoretical
considerations for practical research 47

Cedric Cullingford & Jenny Morrison. Peer Group Pressure Within and
Outside School 61

Eileen McSporran, Yvonne Butterworth & Vivienne J. Rowson. Sound Field
Amplification and Listening Behaviour in the Classroom 81

Rosa Nidia Buenfil-Burgos. Education in a Post-modern Horizon: voices from
Latin America 97

Book Reviews 109


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 22 Number 5   December 1996

Stewart Ranson. The Future of Education Research: learning at the centre 523

Dylan Wiliam & Paul Black. Meanings and Consequences: a basis for
distinguishing formative and summative functions of assessment? 537

Mari Boyle & Peter Woods. The Composite Head: coping with changes in
the primary headteacher's role 549

Carl Bagley. Black and White Unite or Flight? The racialised dimension of
schooling and parental choice 569

Diane Reay. Contextualising Choice: social power and parental involvement 581

D. Gleeson, D. Glover, G. Gough, M. Johnson & D. Pye. Reflections on Youth
Training: toward a new model of training experience? 597

Book Reviews 615

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British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 22 Number 4 September 1996

Obituary. Professor Barry Troyna 387

Pat Tunstall & Caroline Gipps. Teacher Feedback to Young Children in Formative Assessment: a typology 389

P. E. Newton. The Reliability of Marking of General Certificate of Secondary Education Scripts: mathematics and English 405

Tamar Levine & Zehava Geldman-Caspar. Informal Science Writing Produced by Boys and Girls: writing preference and quality 421

Rosemary Webb & Graham Vulliamy. A Deluge of Directives: conflict between collegiality and managerialism in the post-ERA primary school 441

Mike Wallace. A Crisis of Identity: school merger and cultural transition 459

Carol Vincent, Jennifer Evans, Ingrid Lunt & Pam Young. Professionals Under Pressure: the administration of special education in a changing context 475

Ian Stronach, Julie Allan & Brian Morris. Can the Mothers of Invention Make Virtue out of Necessity? An optimistic deconstruction of research compromises in contract research and evaluation 493

Book Reviews 511


British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 22 Number 3 June 1996

Special Issue: Post-modernism and Post-structuralism in Educational Research, Guest Editors: Carrie Paechter & Gaby Weiner

Editorial 267

Maggie MacLure. Telling Transitions: boundary work in narratives of becoming
an action researcher 273

Michael Grenfell. Bourdieu and Initial Teacher Education-a post-structuralist
approach 287

Erica McWilliam. Touchy Subjects: a risky enquiry into pedagogical pleasure 305

Kaye F. Haw. Exploring the Educational Experiences of Muslim Girls: tales
told to tourists-should the white researcher stay at home? 319

Anthony Rosie. 'Pagan Knowledge': a case-study of post-modern theorising
and youth work training 331

J. Evans & A. Tsatsaroni. Linking the Cognitive and the Affective in Educational
Research: cognitivist, psychoanalytic and post-structuralist models 347

Ian Stronach. Fashioning Post-modernism, Finishing Modernism: tales from
the fitting room 359

Book Reviews 377

British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 22 Number 2 April 1996

Philip Garner. A Special Education? The experiences of newly qualifying
teachers during initial training 155

David Gillborn. Student Roles and Perspectives in Antiracist Education:
a crisis of white ethnicity? 165

Carol Aubrey. An Investigation of Teachers' Mathematical Subject Knowledge
and the Processes of Instruction in Reception Classes 181

E. Conduit, R, Brookes, G. Bramley & C. L. Fletcher. The Value of School
Locations 199

Anthi Panagopoulou-Stamatelatou & Frank Merrett. Improving Children's
Writing: the construction of a behavioural self-management package 207

Stephen Lamb. Gender Differences in Mathematics Participation in Australian
Schools: some relationships with social class and school policy 223

H. G. Morrison & P. C. Cowan. The State Schools Book: a critique of a
league table 241

Book Reviews 251

British Educational Research Journal

VOLUME 22 Number 1 February 1996

Roger Murphy. Like a Bridge over Troubled Water: realising the potential
of educational research (Presidential Address) 3

Pat Cuckle. Children Learning to Read-exploring home and school
relationships 17

Neville Bennett. Class Size in Primary Schools: perceptions of headteachers,
chairs of governors, teachers and parents 33

Carrie Paechter & John Head. Power and Gender in the Staffroom 57

Geoff Troman. No Entry Signs: educational change and some problems
encountered in negotiating entry to educational settings 71

Linda Hargreaves, Chris Comber & Maurice Galton. The National Curriculum:
can small schools deliver? Confidence and competence levels of teachers
in small rural primary schools 89

Geoffrey Elliott. Why is Research Invisible in Further Education? 101

Anne West & Pam Sammons. Children With and Without 'Additional Educational
Needs' at Key Stage 1 in Six Inner City Schools-teaching and learning
processes and policy implications 113

Dylan Wiliam. National Curriculum Assessments and Programmes of Study:
validity and impact 129

Book Reviews 143

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