Stephen T Kerr
Biographic Data
| ID | 368646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen T Kerr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerr |
| SIGNATURE | KERR S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scottish Parliament |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to James Mitchell
This short article offers comments on James Mitchell's response to the authors’ original article in this issue. It argues that reforming the Scottish Parliament is required to rebalance power and revitalise Holyrood as a deliberative forum. Good government depends on a strong opposition, and the Scottish Parliament must enable that opposition
Is the Scottish Parliament Working
This essay critically examines the effectiveness of the Scottish Parliament in fulfilling its role of holding the Scottish Government to account. It evaluates the committee system, chamber debates, parliamentary questions, and public participation, highlighting structural and cultural challenges limiting the Parliament's performance. Despite its unicameral design and ambitions for consensus-driven ‘new politics,’ the Parliament remains constraine…
The Influence of L. S. Vygotsky on Education Theory, Research, and Practice
Beyond Dogma
Teacher education in the USSR has since 1985 increasingly moved away from a pattern of highly centralized control and inflexible ideology. Social and political changes have engendered changes in the educational system, including changes in how teachers are initially prepared and provided with inservice training. Two new approaches to teacher education are surveyed here. The first, a program of preservice training, proposed in 1991 by the Ministry…
Research news and Comment
Will Glasnost Lead to Perestroika? Directions of Educational Reform in the USSR
Referral in Education and Medicine
Referral is a complex problem for generalist and specialist professionals. This study explored how generalist and specialist physicians and educators handle referrals. A content analysis of interview responses shows: (1) the extent of agreement on grounds for referral and causes of disagreement; (2) how practitioners handle disagreements; and (3) how clients deal with transitions during referral. The results indicate that educators view referral …
Consensus for Change in the Role of the Learning Resources Specialist
Specialized professional associations in education have, sometimes moved to expand the roles of their practitioners within the instructional organization of the school. Such changes, whether actual or proposed, provide an opportunityfor studying consensusfor the changed role. How to define role consensus, however, has been a problem for those doing research in the field. A descriptive scheme is presented here which integrates previous work. It in…
The Influence of L. S. Vygotsky on Education Theory, Research, and Practice
Response to James Mitchell
This short article offers comments on James Mitchell's response to the authors’ original article in this issue. It argues that reforming the Scottish Parliament is required to rebalance power and revitalise Holyrood as a deliberative forum. Good government depends on a strong opposition, and the Scottish Parliament must enable that opposition
Will Glasnost Lead to Perestroika? Directions of Educational Reform in the USSR
Consensus for Change in the Role of the Learning Resources Specialist
Specialized professional associations in education have, sometimes moved to expand the roles of their practitioners within the instructional organization of the school. Such changes, whether actual or proposed, provide an opportunityfor studying consensusfor the changed role. How to define role consensus, however, has been a problem for those doing research in the field. A descriptive scheme is presented here which integrates previous work. It in…
Referral in Education and Medicine
Referral is a complex problem for generalist and specialist professionals. This study explored how generalist and specialist physicians and educators handle referrals. A content analysis of interview responses shows: (1) the extent of agreement on grounds for referral and causes of disagreement; (2) how practitioners handle disagreements; and (3) how clients deal with transitions during referral. The results indicate that educators view referral …
Research news and Comment
Will Glasnost Lead to Perestroika? Directions of Educational Reform in the USSR
Beyond Dogma
Teacher education in the USSR has since 1985 increasingly moved away from a pattern of highly centralized control and inflexible ideology. Social and political changes have engendered changes in the educational system, including changes in how teachers are initially prepared and provided with inservice training. Two new approaches to teacher education are surveyed here. The first, a program of preservice training, proposed in 1991 by the Ministry…
The Influence of L. S. Vygotsky on Education Theory, Research, and Practice
Response to James Mitchell
This short article offers comments on James Mitchell's response to the authors’ original article in this issue. It argues that reforming the Scottish Parliament is required to rebalance power and revitalise Holyrood as a deliberative forum. Good government depends on a strong opposition, and the Scottish Parliament must enable that opposition
Is the Scottish Parliament Working
This essay critically examines the effectiveness of the Scottish Parliament in fulfilling its role of holding the Scottish Government to account. It evaluates the committee system, chamber debates, parliamentary questions, and public participation, highlighting structural and cultural challenges limiting the Parliament's performance. Despite its unicameral design and ambitions for consensus-driven ‘new politics,’ the Parliament remains constraine…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (2 works) · Lead (geology (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Business (1 works)