New associate editor for Practice section of "Journal of Mental Health Counseling" discusses contributions he hopes to make to journal. Contends that mental health counseling is faced with increasing need for sensitivity to needs and realities of culturally diverse consumer population and workforce. Notes plans to address issue by encouraging…

Examines Stephen Toulmin's system of logic and its application to the teaching of composition. Claims that Toulmin's approach is deficient for classroom applications. Argues that composition teachers would do better to retain principles from traditional logic rather than using Toulmin's form as a substitute. (HB)

Suggests that much of communication scholarship has been message driven and that this dominant form of explaining what communication is or does is slowly being challenged by reflexive explanations, which see humans as cognitively autonomous beings, reflexive practitioners of communication with others, and morally responsible interveners in the…

Argues that the issue of difference is at the root of the problems in the field of communication. Maintains that it is how the differences that characterize human beings, their symbolic lives, and their symbolic products are treated that confounds the field. Discusses the methodological moves involved in locating something defined as difference.…

School reformers have advocated many changes in roles and relationships that would blur the boundaries between teaching, teacher education, and research. Substantial supports must be built into the system, if people who work in boundary-blurring roles are going to make positive contributions to these very different educational enterprises. (MLH)

Introduces a colloquium on the scope and form of a theory of second-language learning. The value of a general theory is argued for, and the relation of theory to practice is considered. (16 references) (JL)

Describes the difficulties encountered in a graduate class called "Composition, Literature, and Literacy," whose students came from two very different constituencies (essentially theorists and practitioners). Discusses how the teacher and students probed their own rhetorical situation and emphasized, rather than ignored, the conflict…

Describes a model for the structured group supervision of counselor trainees. Discusses preliminary research on the model's effectiveness. Presents five phases of Structured Group Supervision model: request-for-assistance statement, questioning period and identification of focus, feedback statements, supervisee response, and optional discussion…

College instructors should focus their teaching not only on content but also on how to learn content in the context of particular courses. Students need practice with a variety of learning strategies before they can understand why particular ones are most effective or be helped to improve their efficiency in using them. (Author/MSE)

Disagrees with Psacharapoulos that theory and qualitative research have little value in studying educational problems. Emphasizes the importance of local context to educational planning, and the need for more thorough discussion of the concepts used in comparative education, consistent use of terminology, and honest elaboration of researchers'…

For comparative education to provide a valid contribution to educational policymaking, attention must be given to the context of decision and the possible enlargement of the decision-making population. Recommendations and writings must be geared to their audience and should draw on other related disciplines. (SV)

Examines differences between composition researchers and communication professionals in use of the term "editing." Argues for cooperation between these two groups to develop an interdisciplinary definition of editing to bring consistency to research, precision to the editing process, and substantial advance in the bridge between theory…

The process of education is intended to free the mind from certainty, to liberate children and adolescents so that they can consider options not entertained by their parents. After distinguishing between the intended and the operational curricula, this article examines five desirable features of intended curricula. Includes 14 references. (MLH)

Asserts that most modern reading theories take the position that to relax the will while reading is to either become a mere consumer or to submit to the tyranny of other minds. Discusses the nature of pleasure in reading, and argues that self-loss in reading can sometimes be a necessary prologue to self-empowerment. (PRA)

Argues that it is only with a sense of what literacy as a historic and culture-specific technology has achieved that educators can begin to realize the possibilities for reshaping students' literacies as social practices. (MG)