Explores conceptions of leadership from the perspectives of practitioners and scholars and discusses the role of librarians in leading others to sources of knowledge for understanding leadership. Highlights include how leaders are selected, the relationship between leaders and followers, evaluating leadership quality, and leadership from the…

Assertive discipline can help teachers develop more consistent and effective communication strategies for influencing student behavior. Over a nine-week period, two teachers using assertive discipline reduced the off-task and disruptive behavior of a male kindergarten student by defining behavioral limits and providing positive and negative…

Positive behavior management has been recommended as a more acceptable form of classroom management than traditional behavioral modification. This paper discusses the application of stimulus and contingency control methods (positive behavior management) to elicit more socially and academically acceptable behavior from elementary school children.…

The extensive review reports on litigation affecting higher education in the areas of: state action; the first amendment; tort liability; institutional contracts; immunities; judicial neutrality; public access to records and meetings; funding; employment; adverse academic, disciplinary, and licensing decisions; discrimination against students; and…

Analyzes and critiques Ernest L. Boyer's book, "Scholarship Reconsidered," particularly regarding its implications for the field of communication instruction. Identifies the immediate impact of Boyer's book for the disciplines of communication. Outlines an agenda for communication disciplines based on Boyer's findings. (HB)

Using Total Quality Education principles, a Colorado middle school formed an action team to research discipline situation and develop a new system. Consequences for infractions now range from Saturday school to visiting local prisons and performing community service (to replace suspension). Program success is based on consistency, learning…

A study of 64 mothers and their 3- to 8-year-old children examined mothers' attributions, affect, and proposed behavioral responses regarding 2 forms of noncompliant behavior, direct defiance and passive noncompliance. Findings indicated that mothers regarded children's direct defiance as more intentional and dispositional than passive…

Outlines the way that schooling in Singapore fosters a sense of discipline, duty, order, and tolerance among students. Presents real experiences of one educator's encounter with orderly Singaporean student behavior. (HB)

Analyzes the proliferation of specialties in the social sciences. Observes that there is little communication among specialties within disciplines, but an increasing intermingling of disciplines that is generating hybrid fields. Argues that the history of contemporary social sciences demonstrates this hybridization in the main route of scientific…

Examines 24 years of research published in this journal. Finds that the prevalence of studies failing to replicate has declined; replications are still rarely recognized as random factors; and researchers who use replications appear to do so for purposes of generalizability and control over confounding but without carefully analyzing the burden of…

Finds that a semantic network analysis of the International Communication Association (ICA) based on paper titles presented at its 1991 conference had a high degree of correspondence with the affiliation structure. Suggests validity of the procedures employed for determining semantic networks. Interprets results in regard to this journal's…

Teachers consistently viewed public schools more positively than did the general public, assigning them their highest grades ever. Teachers believe parents' lack of support and interest are schools' greatest problem; the public chose drug use. Inner-city teachers rated public schools lower than did other teachers. (MLH)

Documents the rise and fall of public relations in public-administration education through a content analysis of textbooks. Notes some early signs of renewed attention. Suggests reestablishing public relations as a valuable part of contemporary public-administration education. (RS)

Identifies and clarifies the difficulties encountered in the effort to revive rhetoric as a modern academic discipline. Discusses briefly the institutional histories of speech communication and composition studies. Describes a new rhetoric (the "current-traditional rhetoric") that began to dominate universities in the late 19th century and has…

Recent amendments to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provide school officials with increased flexibility to address infractions committed by handicapped students. If a conduct code pertaining to all students has been violated, a district may suspend or place a disabled student in an alternative setting for up to 10 days. (MLH)