Irish Educational Studies, 1988.

A total of 25 papers are included in the two issues of this series (12 in issue number 1; 13 in issue number 2), as follows: (1) "Recent Trends in Teacher Education in England" (V. McClelland); (2) "American Educational Reform: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease" (R. Barger); (3) "Professional Attitudes" (G. Gaden); (4) "Lost in a Book" (T. Mullins); (5) "An Action Research Approach to Children's Literature" (B. Wortley); (6) "Subject Integration and Personal Development through a Non-Directive Investigative Group Project within an Undergraduate Management Program" (S. Fawcett; S. Laverty); (7) "Teacher Empowerment in a Curriculum Project" (D. Leonard); (8) "Music Standards and Dispositions of Students Entering a College of Education" (B. Spelman; M. Killeavy); (9) "A Comparison of the Cognitive Demands Made by the Integrated Science Curriculum Innovation Project with Those Made by Its Written Examination for the Intermediate Certificate of Education" (M. O'Maoldomhnaigh; S. O'Bealain); (10) "Computers in Primary Education" (G. Enright); (11) "The Dimensions of Mathematical Giftedness" (E. O'Chriagain); (12) "Making Sense of Condoned Absenteeism: Parents' and Pupils' View" (L. Caul; J. Harbison); (13) "Governesses, Tutors, and Parents: Domestic Education in Ireland, 1700-1880" (J. Logan); (14) "Teacher Education: The Collapse of Its All-Ireland Dimensions in 1922" (S. Farren); (15) "Developing the History Curriculum in the Primary School, 1922-1986" (A. Motherway); (16) Alfred O'Rahilly: Pathfinder in Adult Education" (M. O'Murchu); (17) "Soviet Pedagogical Theory and Methodology, 1917-1980" (D. Hainsworth); (18) "The Background, Motivation, and Personality Characteristics of Two Groups of Student Teachers" (S. O'Connell); (19) "Personality Variables, Attitudes, and Attainments in Boys Aged 11-14" (J. Whyte); (20) "Education for the Labour Market: A Critique" (P. Geraghty); (21) "Transition from School to Work: Cohort Evidence from Northern Ireland on Post-Compulsory School Activities and Influencing Factors" (L. McWhirter; And Others); (22) "Thoughts on Discipline in Our Schools" (D. Dunphy; And Others); (23) "Stress: Fact or Fiction? A Study of Perceived Stress in a Coeducational Second-Level School in Rural Ireland" (B. Barnicle); (24) "Values Clarification as a Methodology in Moral Education" (A. Breslin); and (25) "Traveller People and the Education System" (T. O'Briain). (JHP)