"A Career with Meaning" is a tailor made journey that enables individuals to match their core beliefs and values with numerous professional opportunities within the leisure industry. Leading experts provide detailed discussion and insight for 11 primary areas related to recreation, parks, sport management, hospitality and tourism. Once you have…

Between the turn of the twentieth century and the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about "race" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, during World War II.…

"Socrates in the Boardroom" argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue--such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading…

This report by the Bicentennial Commission on Education for the Profession of Teaching of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education discusses aspects and problems of teaching as a profession and makes recommendations to upgrade the quality of teachers and of teacher education. The first chapter describes characteristics of…

Presented are some casefinding approaches used in the Developmentally Delayed Infant Education Project (Ohio). Brief sections include information on the Project's objectives and limits; the responsibilities, desired skills and competencies, and desired traits and attributes of casefinding coordinators; identification approaches (such as contacting…

The project report identifies the purposes of social work and the major objectives, functions, and activities necessary to attain them. From this material the essential competencies of the first level professional social worker are derived. The project report represents the only current statement of the fundamentals for entry level professional…

Providing information needed to make choices about different occupations in counseling and human services, this book enables examination of personal strengths and weaknesses within the fields. The opening chapters examine professional and personal issues to be considered in making career choices. Next are presented examples of counseling and human…

That the quest for a general theory of educational administration has been a misdirection of effort and that the advancement of professionalism within this field would represent a more sensible endeavor for the production of useful knowledge is the focus of this essay. The advancement of professionalism would entail a reorientation of research…

This work is one of a series of monographs on the improvement of engineering education. This particular study was designed to determine: (1) the extent of individual engineers' involvement in continuing education; (2) factors pertaining to job success; and (3) what relationships may exist between the two. The population surveyed included all…

This survey report provides information on senior administrators in four types of arts organizations: resident theaters, art museums, symphony orchestras, and community arts agencies. It examines: (1) their backgrounds and careers; (2) the rewards they receive from their work; (3) their expectations about future employment; (4) their training and…

This book offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the daily realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on practical examples from different kinds of professional practice, including nursing and medicine, community education, social…

This publication has been prepared for use as a textbook for introductory courses in recreation and parks, or for use by students enrolled in undergraduate general education courses in recreation and leisure studies. It is designed to promote an understanding of social, psychological and economic forces relating to work and leisure. Facts and…

Many have observed the impact of feminism on various disciplines and professions of the humanities and social sciences as more women entered those fields. The feminist perspective helped to transfer some of the traditional theories and methodologies of those disciplines. It was assumed by many that the sciences were likewise changing. This…

New forms of preparing workers in the human services have the potential of changing and improving those services. A central feature of the new forms of preparation is that they must both be preparatory for the services and be characteristic of them (for example, if the services are participatory in nature, the training should also be so). There is…

This book explains the episodic changes in the meaning of "profession" and its cognates in the United States from 1600 to the present. An introduction states the book's central theses, that the meaning of the word "profession" has changed episodically in American history, that these changes in meaning were directly informed by…