COLLEGES OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCE SERVICES IN SCHOOLS Available to Purchase

It is now generally acknowledged that the quality of the learning environment created by schools depends on the existence of efficiently managed and accessible resource services. These services, concerned as they are to develop, mainatin and make available materials that are intended to enrich the learning process, have a key role to play in the enhancement of the educational experiences pupils encounter in schools. Clearly, however, the effectiveness of these resource services will depend on how well they can be exploited by teachers who have the primary responsibility for managing pupils' learning. It is appropriate, therefore, for an article that is concerned to offer a college of education perspective on the central theme of this issue, to consider how the programme of professional preparation for teachers enables them to come to terms with the role, function, and potentialities of resource services and to acquire the skills through which they will be able to exploit these services to best effect.