This paper analyzes the case file of an adult male labeled as having mental retardation. The focus is on exploring the power dynamics that underpin services. Using Foucault's treatise on discipline as an analytic tool, the paper examines the mechanisms through which a defective identity is constructed, thereby legitimizing social control.…

Reviews existing empirical evidence regarding the status of public administration as a field of study. Finds very little research, but notes indicators (such as enrollment trends, dissertation listings, and journal contributions) that offer a mixed view of the field's growth and development and suggest an apparent decline in the field's status and…

Meta-analysis of 18 studies on the effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) at the college level found an overall mean effect size of 0.127, i.e., students receiving traditional instruction supplemented with CAI performed slightly better than those receiving only traditional instruction. CAI was most effective in aviation and English…

Examines trends in the well being of Swedish youth to determine whether they show improvement or deterioration since the passage of the 1979 corporal punishment ban. Data collected from various national sources indicate that rates of involvement in crime, substance use, rape, and suicide have decreased. Trends in rates of nonsexual assaults are…

Addresses behavior problems commonly encountered in classroom management. Discusses concerns such as getting children to listen, making classroom rules, controlling an out-of-control child, getting children to share, using stickers, alleviating conflicts between parents and teachers' style and practice, solving transition time problems, addressing…

A middle-school teacher turned principal believes that classroom discipline problems stem from problems teachers are having with instruction. This article explains how to devise focusing activities, organize faculty study groups and turn discipline referrals into mini-writing workshops. Helping teachers is better than blaming them. (MLH)

Analyzes data from the 1989 Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate racial segmentation of the academic labor market along geographic and disciplinary lines. Finds that black faculty in the sciences and engineering are found disproportionately in southern, historically black institutions; areas with sizable black populations; and, independent…

Describes a method for automatically identifying sublanguage (SL) domain terms and revealing the patterns in which they occur in text. By applying this method to abstracts from a variety of disciplines, differences in how SL domain terminology occurs can be discerned. Findings indicate relatively consistent differences between the hard sciences…

Interviews English parents who had at least one child who had finished compulsory schooling about their school choice and experience of compulsory schooling. Examines different significances that parents attached to discipline and why. Argues that power relations between adult/child and resulting from social location are relevant to understanding…

The majority of school districts have installed video cameras on buses. Videotaping school-bus riders provides a tangible picture, complete with sound. Along with the cameras, districts should have a disciplinary process in place. (MLF)

To determine the extent to which tension between learning knowledge/skills and processes/understanding influenced practice and assessment in design and technology departments, this study analyzed surveys of department heads, teacher tutor reports, and student self-reflective reports. Suggests that a disjunction between policy and practice results…

Surveyed 82 departments of African Studies and 182 courses on gender to examine course offerings on the psychology of women, African-American women, and other areas related to gender. Results indicate that the psychology of women has not had much influence on the curriculum of African-American studies. (SLD)

Looks at relationships between cognitive skills and cognitive style in Anglophone Canadian students. Finds that they are statistically independent, that there is a statistically significant relationship between sex and performance in some subjects, and that there is a statistically significant relationship between skill, style, and subject in…

Discusses establishing a new basis for discipline in U.S. high schools, and suggests making high school voluntary to increase the number of students who really want to be in school. Another suggestion is to find ways to introduce adults into the classrooms to boost the authority of classroom teachers. (SLD)

Parents' characteristics that influence the incidence of spanking are investigated. Differences between boys and girls, mothers and fathers, older and younger children, Black and White, and married versus single women, as well as attributes of the child, the parent, and the social context are explored using multiple regression analysis. Profiles…