ABSTRACT
This research review is derived from three periods of in-service work in Scottish education during the twelve years between 1981 and 1993. Project One on discussion development focused inwards seeking to influence an educational community coping with curriculum development in schools. It represented a concern for communication across the curriculum, a growing awareness of the difference between process-and content-orientated approaches in secondary schools and a recognition of the need for teachers to relate differently to students through participative methods. Project Two built on innovations in personal and social development programmes in schools to define the notion of the enterprising person in the context of the world of work. Project coordinators faced outwards building new systems to discuss ideas and action plans with colleagues and representatives from commerce and industry. Project Three examined the gains and losses from these two periods of development to ask questions about schools’ ethos, values in teaching and learning, social and personal values in a climate of educational change.
