ABSTRACT
The three case studies reported here raise a number of issues of method, substance and in theory. In none of these case studies is there any introductory and overt appeal to some form of social or educational theory, and certainly not of the depth usual in research projects of this scale and seriousness. Certainly the result of the method chosen here has been that there is no apparent communality of approach across the case studies. There is additional confirmation in these case studies for a number of findings that have been so often reported that they are now considered 'obvious' or 'common sense'. The material generated by the project and presented in the three case studies be related to three theoretical areas: to the concept of alienation itself, to organization theory as it concerns schools and to the curriculum.
