Discusses the men of science and literature in England who comprise the so-called Visible College referring to their popularity as well as their concern with the social relations of science. Begins with C. P. Snow's attack on scientists as being men with a different mentality from those of the humanities. (Author/RK)

Presents the differences and similarities of the traditional interpretation and the revisionist view of role of the public school in the development of American education. States that both schools of thought tend to construct rigid categories of intent to schools and schoolmen and that a mature viewpoint would neither blindly praise nor bitterly…

The author argues that metaphors have a vividness and emotive force, plus the ability to express openness, which makes them a crucial part of the educational process. (Author/RK)

The current emphasis on breaking down knowledge into minute particles for the purpose of objective measurement has been refuted by educational authorities in the past. The Author assesses the present renewed demands for accountability of the educational product and its dangers to the educational system. (Author/RK)

Hugo Munsterberg's "The Film: A Psychological Study" is one of the earliest essays in the area of film theory. Unfortunately, it has remained relatively unknown since its publication in 1916. The author discusses two concepts raised by Munsterberg: the contrast between films in the theatrical mode and films in the cinematic mode.…

The term "post-industrial society" denotes the fact that more than half of a society's economy is devoted to service rather than to the production of goods. Discusses prospects for increasing productivity in service organizations and argues that irrational elements are built into service organizations as a consequence of the nature of…

Koch (1974) has argued that psychology is an imitation science, because it has failed to build an edifice of positive knowledge; and that it cannot logically do any better in the future. This research rejects this skeptical argument but suggests that we should think in a different way about the subject. (Editor/RK)

Urges that children be taught the range of language uses as they occur in society and that they be taught to cope with the communications media. (DD)

Attempts to provide increased understanding of the nature and function of mystical preaching as a distinctive form of discourse by investigating the sermons of the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart (1260-ca. 1327, 1329). (MH)

Focuses on understanding comparative education with regard to its political commitment, as it is reflected in the positions taken by some outstanding educationalists in the course of the history of this discipline. (Author/RK)

Confronts the problem of teaching the discipline of history to students unaware of any time other than the present. Stresses the need to focus on what students know, rather than with survey courses that assume a prior commitment to history as a means of knowing. (Editor/RK)

The debate about standards seems already to have narrowed the focus of English teaching. Author outlines ways in which teachers might counter the charge of English being a soft option. (Editor)

The current trend in education today is "back to basics". Where, then, does this put music, which is not one of the traditional three Rs? Author makes the case for music education suggesting that music educators must sell music education "now" not only in existing programs but in relatively untapped and unexplored areas such as music for the aged…

Author advocates the view that meaning is necessarily dependent upon the communicative function of language and examines the objections, particularly those of Noam Chomsky, to this view. Argues that while Chomsky disagrees with the idea that communication is the essential function of language, he implicitly agrees that it has a function.…

Wants counseling to include more focus on the dialectical process of personal change. Dialectics, in Lenin's words "reveals the transitory character of everything and in everything...the uninterrupted process of becoming and passing away...." Contradiction, conflict, and ambivalence are affirmed, in this approach, as the essential,…