A program where students are supervised and disciplined for improper actions operates successfully at Hemet Junior High School in California. (Author/MLF)

Advocates developing a mutual respect between teacher and student to counteract discipline problems in the classroom. (LD)

Quite apart from any judicial definition of what due process requires, whether derived from the Fourteenth Amendment, common law, or a contractual relation, a law school is compelled on educational grounds to provide a disciplinary process adequate to satisfy legal and educational demands. Available from Southern Methodist University School of…

A Saturday session in the Saucon Valley School District, Hallertown (Pennsylvania), including academic tutoring and counseling, is a low-cost effective alternative to suspension. (Author/MLF)

Schools with custodial structure, punitive structure, and no structure are good for three things--maintenance, punishment, and nothing. Schools must have a structure that encourages their real objective--to develop skill, knowledge, appetite, and discipline for living. (Author/IRT)

Inschool suspension programs can combine efforts to help students succeed with the administration of discipline. (IRT)

The program described reduced the total number of students suspended in the high school by approximately 29 percent and in the junior high by approximately 42 percent. (IRT)

Describes inschool suspension and gives examples of successful programs. (IRT)

Discusses the background of business communication as a profession and as an academic discipline. Describes Kenneth Boulding's model for establishing the legitimacy of a profession, and uses this model to advance the legitimacy of the profession of business communication. (SR)

Examines patterns in disciplinary formation and studies that have examined disciplinary formation of English as a school subject. Suggests that some benefit could result from focusing on the particulars of micro-level situations in disciplinary formation and that such an approach might serve as a correction to analyses that sometimes force…

Analyzes 40 concepts in adult education in relation to time, space, policy, theory, and ideals, as well as tensions and competition among them. Seven categories of concepts are presented: core, international, institutional, work related, learning, curricular, and structural. (SK)

This qualitative study explored faculty's perceptions of the effects of sustained discourse across disciplines on attitudes and behaviors related to scholarship and intellectual interaction at one research university. Many participants reported developing new approaches for teaching and research that spanned disciplinary perspectives, enhancing…

This bibliography attempts comprehensive coverage of the historical writings on the field of information science in North America. It is divided into three sections: books (including encyclopedia articles), journal articles, and unpublished papers and dissertations. (Author/LRW)

Suggests a three-step plan to help teachers and administrators know what to do during student fights. Details the extent of the problem of student-to-student physical confrontations. Discusses the need to become competent in intervention and suggests the creation of a mental action plan. Encourages educators to have full knowledge of their…

Discusses why the concept of organizational culture in higher education institutions has failed to reflect the dual position of academics in their disciplinary and institutional contexts, the former of which is generally the determining factor in most academics' conception of their identities. (EV)