Tables of contents

Effects of socioeconomic factors on public high school outcomes and rankings 

Robert K Toutkoushian, Taylor Curtis

259 

Balanced literacy in an urban school district 

Bruce B Frey, Steve W Lee, Nona Tollefson, Lisa Pass, Donita Massengill

272 

Evaluating school policy on parents working with their children in class 

Leonidas Kyriakides

281 

Block-scheduled high schools: impact on achievement in English and Language Arts 

Joe D Nicols

299 

The role of achievement goals in children's learning in Taiwan

Shu-Shen Shih

310 

Articles

School as a cubbyhouse: tensions between intent and practice in classroom curriculum 

Geoff Munns

1 

On the governance of public education 

Richard Bates

13 

Researching the development of historical consciousness in late primary and junior secondary students  

Julie Edwards

22 

Attempting to reconcile teaching theory and practice: 'what do you do if you don't do worksheets?' 

Carol Swan

34 

Developing global perspectives in primary school students through quality teaching and authentic assessment 

Bev Stubbs, Sandra Newell

42 

Point and counterpoint

Post-curriculum history? 

Bill Green

51 

Researching curriculum history 

Phil Cormack

55 

Feminist poststructuralism and curriculum history 

Julie McLeod

60 

Getting (a) complex about curriculum history 

Stephen Thorpe

64 

Book reviews

Fundamentals of curriculum 

Colin Marsh

68 

Key concepts for understanding curriculum 

John Chi-Kin Lee

69 

Special issue: in memory of Sigrun Gudmundsdottir

Guest Editor: Freema Elbaz Luwisch

Articles

Real lessons from imaginary teachers

Christopher M Clark

233

Only when I laugh? Notes on the becoming interview 

Arne Carlsen

239

Activity genre: a new approach to successful inclusive teaching

Torill Moen

257

Teacher pedagogical constructions: a reconfiguration of pedagogical content knowledge 

Maher Z Hashweh

273

Cracks in the iceberg: surfacing tensions of constructivist pedagogy in the context of mentoring

Lily Orland-Barak

293

Multiple voices, multiple realities, what truth? Student teachers' learning to reflect in different paradigms

Wilfried Admiraal, Theo Wubbels

315

Review article

Sigrun Gudmundsdottir's contributions as a signpost to narrative research: a review of www.svt.ntnu.no/ped/sigrun

Leena Syrjälä, Eila Estola

331

SERA lecture 2005: education reform as social barbarism: economism and the end of authenticity

Stephen J Ball

4

Researching policy and policy research 

Pamela Munn

17 

Making the most of the Curriculum Review: some reflections on supporting and sustaining change in schools 

Mark Priestley

29 

Integrated services for children with disabilities: a staff development perspective  

Jean Kane, Pauline Banks

39 

The introduction of a unified system of post-compulsory education in Scotland 

David Raffe, Cathy Howieson, Teresa Tinklin

46 

Student employment and its educational impact: a Scottish study 

Jim McKechnie, Karen Dunleavy, Sandy Hobbs

58 

Education in the Scottish parliament 

Mark Priestley

68 

Book reviews 

79