Discusses how teachers can use literature to teach students to gather basic materials for writing better compositions. (SW)

In the form of a play, a brief discussion is presented of program evaluation problems at the elementary/secondary education level. (PN)

This rendering of a principal's address to his teaching staff at the start of a new school year takes a satirical swipe at those administrators who would solve students' disciplinary problems by increasing teachers' duties. (PB)

Suggests that comics can be studied as artifacts of cultural history, human psychology, and popular art. (SJL)

In this "non-paper not prepared for the Canadian Education Association Convention," the author muses over education's absorption with overlapping special populations and wonders who is left to be average. (SJL)

Recounts a study designed to isolate the speech evaluation traits resulting from a satirical speech and concludes that a speaker who chooses a satirical approach over a direct approach will more likely receive higher ratings on speaker adjustment, subject, and analysis and lower ratings on organization. (MH)

A French television program using puppets for political satire is discussed and its instructional applications are examined. (MSE)

Presents a "Bard's eye" view of higher education using Shakespeare's veiled references to express some faculty and administrators' perspectives on people, processes, and places in the profession. (RS)

Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is a complex, uninhibited, savage satire that concludes with the narrator's descent into madness--hardly a likely candidate for children's reading. In the nearly three hundred years since it was first published, however, "Gulliver's Travels" has become associated with children's literature, though it is…

A 16-page, four-color-on-newsprint magazine, "Krokodil" is among the world's most popular magazines of humor and satire. As a product of the Pravda Publishing House, it is produced by a branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, yet there are no official taboos or guidelines. Connections, popularity, and profits give…

This study guide for Arthur Lipsett's film "Very Nice, Very Nice" is in four parts. First, it describes and evaluates the film, discusses Lipsett's unusual juxtapositions, fast cutting, and fragmented speeches as indications of his satirical intent, and suggests that the only meaningful summation of the film's content is through pattern…

The article discusses the use and purposes of puns in Spanish speech and literature. (Text is in Spanish.) (NCR)

Writers and illustrators are recognizing that people of all ages, from toddlers to adults, enjoy and look toward illustrated books that reflect and convey the thoughts, ideals, and values of modern contemporaneity. Suggests how picture books can be used to help young people with their interpretation of symbols found in painting and photographic…