Discusses personal teaching experiences to explore issues of the theory and practice of teaching. Explores the application of behaviorism, cognitive theory, and sociocultural theories such as those of Vygotsky to changing classroom environments, and stresses the need for teaching practice to be organized and illuminated by theories. (EV)

Presents a process analysis of a psychodynamic intervention for a client with panic attacks. Discusses how a psychodynamic understanding of the complex etiology of the client's panic attacks that ultimately produced improved coping skills and a subjective sense of improvement for her. Process analysis is used to illustrate the theoretical base,…

Introduces the value of applying research findings about human learning to the design of instruction. Briefly summarizes the journal's other chapters. (EV)

Outlines some basic components of effective learning processing and then suggests tasks or ways of presenting information during lecture that can induce such processing by students. (EV)

Explores how higher education can focus more clearly on the development of successful intelligence--a kind of knowing that permits creative use of information, analysis of complex topics, and its application in a variety of settings. (EV)

Reviews and critiques SCMCT (Social Cognitive Model of Counselor Training) as presented in this issue of JCP; finds it both ambitious and comprehensive. Discusses distinctions between supervision and training, supervisory interventions, and the advanced supervision experience. Points to questions which require further research. Discusses the…

Considers the potential for teacher research to change ideas about who is responsible for producing knowledge, the benefits and dangers of inserting the self into the social sciences, and the challenges of presenting problems of practice from within practice. (Author/SK)

Practitioner-researchers are emerging in many fields in response to rapid change and a view of research as systematic and rigorously controlled learning. The gap between theory and practice widens because of variations in practice settings, making practitioner knowledge important. Commentaries by Paul Yerrell, David R. Thompson, Philip Burnard,…

Deconstruction of three British nursing research projects found that, due to a "Utopian" perspective, they reintroduce theory-practice gaps they sought to close. Future nursing research should avoid idealistic prescriptions and promote more skeptical and realistic approaches. (SK)

Reexamines unconditional positive regard in the light of theory and practice in an attempt to understand how it operates. Argues that the limiting factor in the effectiveness of counseling and psychotherapy is the extent to which the therapist is able perceptibly to extend unconditional positive regard to the client. (Author/GCP)

An author of the 14th issue of this journal, which was devoted to group-based pedagogical approaches to college instruction, traces the continuing development of collaborative or cooperative learning. Notes influence of the original volume on guidelines of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and the Collaboration in…

Introduces a section in which contributors are invited to comment on the future of scholarship published in "Anthropology & Education." The future work of educational anthropology calls for the application of past and current research in the schools. (SLD)

Illustrates the operationalization of the conjoint analysis multivariate technique for the study of the public relations function within strategic decision making in a crisis situation. Finds that what the theory describes as the strategic way of handling a crisis is also the way each of the managers who were evaluated would prefer to conduct…

This introductory article offers principles for selecting a treatment method for children with communication disorders. These include soundness of the theoretical framework and research foundation; relationship of the theoretical framework to potential change in functional communication; evidence for positive treatment outcomes balanced against…

Identifies four questions related to public administration education: (1) do we seek to educate students with respect to theory or practice? (2) do we prepare students for first jobs or later jobs? (3) what are appropriate delivery systems? and (4) what personal commitments do we make as public administrators? (Contains 48 references.) (JOW)