Presents a dialog between two communication scholars on communication as an academic discipline. Discusses whether communication is a discipline, the legacy of Wilbur Schramm, and specialization and diversity within the field. (SR)

Discusses "language display," a language use strategy whereby members of one group lay claims to attributes associated with another, conveying messages of social, professional, ethnic identity. Examples from academia, politics, business, and advertising reveal language display functions as artifact of crossing linguistic boundaries…

A theory of ironic processes of mental control is proposed to account for the intentional and counterintentional effects that result from efforts at self-control of mental states. The theory holds that an attempt to control the mind introduces operating and monitoring processes that work together and separately. (SLD)

Used longitudinal data from National Survey of Children to examine parent-child relationships in middle childhood and early adolescence. Found fathers much more involved with sons and tending to concentrate on more instrumental facets of support, whereas mothers tended to be more supportive across genders in traditional, affective sense.…

Discusses the emergence of language and social interaction as a scholarly field and how the field can improve its impact on members of the general public. Proposed in terms of conversation analysis, suggestions are offered for communicating the benefits to a wider audience. (Author/VWL)

Argues that adherence to rigid disciplinary boundaries of English studies will lead scholars to miss important occasions to advance their work and effect change. Attempts to redefine the integrity of English studies--to move it from an authorial and structural referential to an ethos committed to knowing, learning, and studying other forms of…

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 specifies procedures and safeguards for disciplining students with disabilities. Program options that help schools with compliance include time-out rooms, in-school suspension, systematic exclusion, positive and negative reinforcement, modified school day/week, and alternative schools. (SK)

Discusses the beginning of the ascendancy of the language sciences in the past 50 years to become the "queen" of social studies. Focuses on contributions by Mikhail Bakhtin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Noam Chomsky, Erving Goffman, and Michael Halliday. (SC)

Discusses how many students cheat in middle and high school mathematics classes and the reasons for cheating. Offers practices to prevent student cheating. Contains 19 references. (ASK)

British mothers (n=362) and fathers (n=103) of randomly selected children from 366 two-parent families were interviewed concerning physically punishing their children. The proportion of mothers and fathers who had used physical punishments were similar. Percentages of types and severity of punishments varied. These findings are discussed in…

Draws on examples from the "Review of Research in Education" to show some ways in which reviews have specific politics both in how they construct their world and how they are received in determinate fields of power. (SLD)

Explores the relationship between research reviews and the fields of study to which they pertain. Uses issues of the "Review of Educational Research" devoted to curriculum from 1931 through 1969 to show how curriculum discourse works as an instrument of power. (SLD)

Describes how the body of knowledge for family and consumer sciences has evolved over the years; outlines external influences and trends affecting the field. Presents a dialogue of elected leaders discussing the body of knowledge for the future. (JOW)

Argues that a confusion of craft and technology is responsible for the erosion and splintering of the discipline of educational technology. Describes the positive and negative qualities of craft and technology and gives examples of the consequences of emphasizing one over the other and recommends a greater blending of the two approaches. (PEN)

Explores how cultural studies have bred a new type of academic, the public intellectual. Their goal is to make more elastic the boundaries between disciplines and between academe and the public sphere, bringing together certain critical and pedagogical discourses that traditionally have been kept apart. (EV)