A discipline-based paradigm asserts that disciplines have intrinsic value, focuses on knowledge delivery, assumes students are empty vessels, and views teachers and students as experts and novices. A development-based paradigm values the learning process, assumes students have tacit knowledge, considers teachers and students as continuous…

Examines the nature of discipline in the monitorial school by referencing Lancaster's original school model. Illustrates how classroom design can impact discipline. Explores two of Lancaster's topics, looking at influences the British monitorial school had on its North American counterpart. (AS)

Analyzes literature on information overload research in library studies using explication, physical analysis, and citation patterns. Makes cross-discipline comparisons with consumer science and psychology/psychiatry. Contains 93 references. (PEN)

The Mid Continent Regional Educational Laboratory polled 2,500 adults about what schools should teach, based on the McREL Standards database. If a curriculum were designed based on this survey, all health, technology, and work-skills standards would be included. All arts, foreign language, or historical understanding standards would be excluded.…

Analysis of percentage grade distributions in 11 subject areas at seven English universities over three years found three types of grade distributions characteristic of specific subject areas: (1) English and History; (2) Biology, Business Studies, Fine Art, French, Law, and Sociology; and (3) Computer Studies and Mathematics. Grade distribution…

Campers will be active and will test their limits; behavior problems are inevitable. If the reason for the behavior can be identified, it can be dealt with much more easily. Discusses seven roots of behavior problems, and what to do when campers violate the rules. A sidebar presents 21 strategies for dealing with challenging behavior. (TD)

Study examines the relationship between college students' perceptions of the fairness and educational value of the disciplinary process and their moral development. Participants were undergraduate students charged with minor disciplinary violations. Results indicate the higher the students' levels of moral development, the more likely they…

Describes The Social Development Program, a way to foster social responsibility and in the process reduce unacceptable classroom behavior simply and easily. The strategy is based on several principles: positivity; empowerment by choice; the importance of self-evaluation and self-correction; assumption of social responsibility; and authority…

States that technical communicators can learn much from the burgeoning field of technology studies. Argues that technical communication must assume the "burden of comprehension": the responsibility of understanding the ideologies, contexts, values, and histories of those "borrowed" disciplines before using their methods and…

Responds to an article in the same issue of this journal by considering several issues: whether pure research in business communication is possible; why business communication translates ideas and methods from other disciplines; and responsibilities of translators. Argues that the breadth of this research consortium should not be seen as a…

Responds to an article in this issue. Reconceptualizes translation as a bidirectional, dynamically negotiated process that occurs within and between communities of scholars and that transforms the language, the person of the translator, the communities involved, and the cultural expectations. Argues that conception of translation predicts a…

Metatheory is the analysis of the presuppositions of a field of knowledge or practice. This article examines presuppositions underlying concepts of information science: information, knowledge (personal and public), message, message designation, information want and need, query, and relevance and information search. Summarizes presuppositions in…

Inquires into empirical, functional, and theoretical arguments made to substantiate theses of retreat, loss of meaning, or untimeliness of general pedagogics. Discusses recent propositions for reorganizing general pedagogics as a subdiscipline of educational science. Argues that general pedagogics could lead to new pedagogical interrelations if…

Offers an account of firsthand experiences with children from the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Details how the children, who were taken to a Methodist Children's Home following release from the Davidian Compound, exhibited evidence of martial training, severe physical punishment, and sexual abuse. Narrates the children's rapid…

Presents arguments for and against inclusion of philosophy of science in doctoral nursing programs. Proponents suggest it promotes reflection and provides a frame of reference. Opponents say it distracts from development of a knowledge base for nursing as a discipline. (SK)