Explores the independent contribution of interpersonal relationships, parental attachment, and racial/ethnic identity to traditional-age undergraduate women's autonomy development, removing the effect of biographical correlates. Differences by race/ethnicity and by residence status in relationship to factors of autonomy are investigated.…

Proposes that writing centers form relationships with Applied Linguistics/ESL to research cross-cultural and cross-linguistic questions, thus fostering research grounded in the everyday work of the center, but with large cultural and theoretical implications. (SR)

Nursing education needs a new model of professional education that combines the liberal and vocational traditions--both knowing that and knowing how. Problem-based learning provides a framework for linking theory and clinical practice in a meaningful way. (SK)

Presents a transcript of an extensive interview with composition theorist and textbook author Charles Bazerman. Considers aspects of Bazerman's work, including the rhetoric of science. (HB)

Considers the current state of rhetoric and composition and its relationship to theories of postmodernism. Argues that the human subject is more complex than such postmodernist theorists as James Berlin claim. Provides a more in-depth sketch of the human subject and how it relates to the English classroom. (HB)

Districts cannot afford to buy all the "stuff" (teaching pictures, puzzles, dittoes, worksheets, cutouts, games, storybooks, and science props) needed by inventive teachers. Districts should allow kids to discover their own stuff and study in the community, group students across grade levels, reuse and share materials, cannibalize old kits, and…

Offers suggestions that use ideas from wellness and health education, both in theory and practice, such as the benefits of simplicity, a holistic perspective, healing through nature, and experiential nature activities to mobilize the healing emotions of counselors and their clients, whether children or adults. (LKS)

Describes the development of a hybrid master's degree that combines research and practice at the University of Nevada-Reno. Relates how the curriculum in journalism and mass communication was developed, including descriptions of core courses and applied research techniques. Concludes that while the experience has not been completely satisfactory,…

Traces the ideals of preservice teachers involved in a master's program aimed at preparing teachers who could make a difference. Discusses how students' ideals were affected by a year-long teaching internship and by a seminar focused on the teacher as change agent. Students discouraged by internship realities were reenergized by the seminar. (34…

Describes two invariance tests, the jackknife procedure and Procrustean rotation, and applies them in a discriminant analysis for this heuristic study. Invariance testing helps to prevent overemphasis on findings of statistical significance and overgeneralization of a research result, and thus is gaining favor as an indicator of result importance.…

Describes development of an instrument, the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS). CATS factors correlated in expected directions with survey measures of object relations, client-rated working alliance, social self-efficacy, and adult attachment. Cluster analysis revealed four types of client attachment. Discusses implications of attachment…

Discusses scholarly journals in the field of social work, information sources for social work practitioners versus researchers, and grey documentation as an alternative means of knowledge transfer. Highlights include research versus practice; grey documentation and scientific credibility; and dissemination of grey literature. (LRW)

Discusses the philosophical importance to adventure education of enchantment, ecstasy, and the mystical. Argues against a positivistic approach. Recommends the works of Eric Shipton and Bruno Bettelheim. Suggests that adventure education theorists must give thought to the existential and phenomenological aspects of the social worlds if adventure…

Explains that teachers must understand what proficient readers do and the conditions in which they learn most easily. Examines the worth of writing portfolios and their proper place in the classroom. Raises some questions about portfolios and offers guidelines for their use. (PA)

Discusses the meaning of mathematics by looking at its uses in the real world. Offers mathematical modeling as a way to represent mathematical applications in real or potential situations. Presents levels of applicability, modus operandi, relationship to "pure mathematics," and consequences for education for mathematical modeling. (MDH)