ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses attention only on those problems which have been faced by the Education Department at the University of York as a consequence of a major shift in its approach to running part-time, in-service MA courses for teachers. It contains the following sections: a brief account of general factors which have influenced the nature of in-service provision for teachers since the 1970s; the nature of the initial York MA course designed to meet that new situation; concern for its effectiveness; the current part-time MA course and its salient features; issues arising from evaluation of this new programme; and implications and generalisability of these issues. The Education Department at York developed a three-year, part-time, in-service course in applied educational studies in 1976 in sympathy with these new ideas. The course also tried to pioneer the idea of concurrency of taught programmes with the supervised implementation of an individual, school-focused research enquiry.
