Tables of contents

T. rex, the Crater of Doom, and the nature of scientific discovery

     Anton E. Lawson

155 

Pseudohistory and Pseudoscience

     Douglas Allchin

179 

Comments on the epistemological shoehorn debate

     Stephen G. Brush

197 

Continental drift: A discussion strategy for secondary school

     Isabel Paixao, Silvia Calado, Silvia Ferreira, Vanda Alves and Ana M. Morais

201 

Relativism, values and morals in the New Zealand Curriculum Framework: Implications for teacher education

     Lone Morris Jorgensen and Sue Ann Ryan

223 

On random numbers and design

     Morechai Ben-ari

235

Meera Nanda's Prophets facing Backward: Postmodern critiques of science and Hindu nationalism in India

     Robert Nola

243 

The world is your oyster, but where's the pearl? Getting the most out of global education

    John Buchanan and Barry Harris

 1 

Peace education in a post-conflict environment: The case of Sierra Leone

     Diane Bretherton, Jane Weston and Vic Zbar

12 

Working with boys' peer cultures: Productive pedagogies ... productive boys

     Amanda Keddie

20 

Mid-term review: The middle years of schooling

    VIctoria Carrington

30 

Continuity and 'teacher-centred' reform: Potential paradoxes in educational change

     David Carless

42 

What do we mean by knowledge?

     Bruce Wilson

53 

Beyond the curriculum wars: Understanding

     David Hanlon

55 

Variations on a theme by Paganini

     Gabrielle Matters

58 

Politics, sex, religion and national curriculum

     Pamela Macklin

61 

Editorial: Ask a different question, get a different answer: the research base for teacher education

     Marilyn Cochran-Smith

111 

The reflective cultural portfolio: identifying public cultural scripts in the private voices of white student teachers

     Virginia Lee

116 

Encountering new spaces: teachers developing voice within a professional development school

     Diane Yendol-Silva and Nancy Fichtman Dana

128 

Separating rhetoric from reality: supporting teachers in negotiating beyond the status quo

     Susi Long

141

Preparing teachers for inclusive classrooms: learning from a collaborative inquiry group

     Britt Hamre and Celia Oyler

154 

Washing our students clean: internal conflicts in response to preservice teachers' beliefs and practices

     Cathy A. Toll, Susan L. Nierstheimer, Susan Davis Lenski, and Penny Britton Kolloff

164 

Evaluation of teacher attributes as predictors of success in urban schools

     Stephanie Kay Sachs

177 

'We decided to give it a whirl': single-sex teaching in English comprehensive schools

     Molly Warrington and Michael Younger

339 

Boys performing English

     Nola Alloway, Pam Gilbert, Rob Gilbert and Robyn Henderson

351 

Lifelong Earning: working-class women and lifelong learning

     Sue Jackson

365 

Research selectivity and female academics in UK universities: from gentleman's club and barrack yard to smart macho?

     Sandra Harley

377 

'I'm a woman before I'm an RE Teacher': managing religious identity in secondary schools 

     Pat Sikes and Judith Everington

393 

Crossing the divide: bridging the disjunctures between theoretically oriented and practice-oriented literature about masculinity and boys at school

     Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower

407