The paper examines the way in which semantics relates to policies of deinstitutionalization of persons with mental illness and mental retardation. Different understandings of common terms in the field are illustrated and it is suggested that the government plays many games, both number games and word games, in dealing with homeless people, migrant…

The document is intended to establish criteria for preschool services so that a handicapped child qualifying for services in one area of the state (Iowa) will qualify for those same services in another geographic area. An initial section examines the state's philosophical commitment to handicapped children. A subsequent section addresses the…

This glossary was designed to help explain the more commonly used environmental terms which appear in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publications, news releases and other agency documents available to the public. These terms were selected to give a general sense of what a term or phrase means in relatively non-technical language. The terms…

The concept of organizational goals, although basic to the study of complex organizations, is no longer analyzed frequently by organizational researchers. The discipline of organizational studies began by concentrating on organizational goals, but by the 1960s researchers had found the concept inadequate as an explanatory variable. They moved to…

This paper prepared at the request of the South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science develops a scientific definition for librarianship and guidelines for librarians based on that definition. An abridged version of the author's doctoral dissertation, the paper shows that a definition of librarianship is essential for the…

Even a superficial review of the literature on cognition would suggest that philosophers of the past and psychologists of the present frequently were concerned with the same problems. For the past three centuries, psychologists and philosophers have relied upon the concept of cognition to describe complex human functions such as memory, thinking,…

The author stated the case for saying that there is no real distinction between moral education and indoctrination and a sketch of moral education was attempted in order to yield the distinction needed. (Editor/RK)

Article attempted to define the metaphor and listed some of the main kinds of metaphor. (Author/RK)

Author discussed dictionaries in the classroom and their value to students as well as teachers. (Author/RK)

Attempts to define the New Journalism and examines the effect of technology on metropolitan newspapers and print journalism. (RB)

Proposes a framework to conceptualize and define the curriculum and instructional components of education and discusses some of the implications that the use of such a framework has for evaluators. (Author)

A list of recently formed Russian compounds with "radio-" and "tele-" and their German equivalents. (Text is in Russian and German.) (DH)

Article considered the source, nature, and role of values in human behavior. (Author/RK)

This study reviews the long-standing issue regarding the role and function of diagnosis within the counseling process. The author argues that the irreconcilable positions taken by client-centered versus diagnostic counselors have been sustained largely by the failure to resolve definitional ambiguities. (Author/BW)

This first to be published dictionary of Khowar has two parts, an introduction and the Khowar-English dictionary itself. The introduction describes Khowar, the primary language of the Chitral District of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. Khowar is described as an Indo-European language that came to the isolated Chitral valley more than…