Discusses the need to place a greater emphasis on the subject of reading in library and information science (LIS) education and research. Topics include literacy studies, print culture history, reader-response theory, ethnography of reading, genre fiction and cultural studies, information versus reading, and access to information versus content of…

The social structure of women's studies is explored through a bibliometric analysis of all scholarly articles and acknowledgments appearing in three journals over a 20-year period. A content analysis was conducted of all editorial statements published by the journals. Results demonstrate the highly gendered nature of the field and the…

Content analysis of 34 student teachers' reflections on practice found that most were descriptive, making it difficult to discern their learning processes. Field-based teacher education should promote more structured ways of thinking and reflecting. (SK)

Examined drawings and transcripts of accompanying narratives made by 3- to 7-year-old children in a preschool setting. Analyzed the symbolism of the pictures and the children's stories about them that formed a background or explanation of each picture, noting developmental differences between the age groups. (JPB)

Analyzes the sessions of the 2000 MENC National Biennial In-Service Conference in terms of categories, such as general, educational, concerts, and sessions with performances. Reports that the educational category had the most sessions (65 percent), followed by sessions with performances (17 percent). Addresses trends in relation to the findings.…

Discusses advantages of adjunct teaching responsibilities for librarians based on experiences of the Illinois chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Describes the class design, the focus on content, and teamwork skills; and considers the theory practice relationship, library education, and future challenges. (LRW)

Reviews the development of three Web-based education resources and the potential for each to meet the needs of users. Describes the Annotated List of Education Journals, the IDEAS Portal Web Site, and the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Web Site and discusses the purpose, audience, content, funding, publicity, and structure of the sites.…

Discusses a teaching strategy devised to introduce adult students to the formalities of contextual analysis and multiplicity thinking and designed to get them to see that phenomena can be described from several points of view simultaneously and that each description has validity. Explores various ways this process eases student anxieties. (JS)

Explains eight categories of friendly text features: text organization, signaling, discourse consistency, cohesion, explication, conceptual density, metadiscourse, and instructional devices. Extratext determinants of readability (reader, goal, teacher) are also examined. Within the context of two models of reading, the interaction of these…

Analyzes the development of education science based on a research project at the University of Freiburg (West Germany). Uses content analysis to examine doctoral and habilitation theses submitted between 1945 and 1985. Examines the extent to which the processes of differentiation, specialization, and formation processes can be reconstructed on the…

Reports on a study that evaluates sociology textbooks both in commercial terms and for what they say about the assumptions sociologists make concerning the world. Provides a Marxist-feminist critique of sociology textbooks. Concludes that most sociology instructors continue to adopt the fairly standard assumptions of the discipline. (KO)

Puts four poems written by Vladimir Mayakovsky into social and historical context by performing a content analysis. Discusses the revolutionary nature of the poetic and typographic communication and the circumstances surrounding the poems' publication. (KEH)

Argues that television convention mitigates against depictions of technology as socially destructive. Argues that the presentation of science as television fiction is a conservative act. Concludes that television reinforces the socially constructed technological imperative of industrial societies, effacing its own role in the preservation of the…

Discussion of the impact of simulation games on learning focuses on a study of a college history course that compared game results with historical facts. A content analysis of the comparisons is presented, models of learning acquisition are discussed, and the learning stages that occur in a simulation game are described. (three references) (LRW)

The devising of sets of multiple-choice questions on a poem or prose passage can be a useful exercise for teachers and students, because it obliges them to confront the question of what a reader must deal with in a text in order to arrive at an understanding of it. (MLW)