An interprofessional approach to ethical issues is demonstrated and how this benefits both those served by the professions and those engaged in the professions is explained. (MT)

Details how the study of wildflower names provides clues to their history, use, or appearance and ties in with other disciplines such as religion, linguistics, medicine, and history. Cites seven references. (NEC)

Presents a model of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation in post-acute treatment settings that is designed to address the multiplicity of deficits in cognitive, social, and physical functioning. Model described involves an integrated transdisciplinary team approach conducted in a functional retraining environment. (Author)

Points out that Martin Allor ("Relocating the Site of the Audience," same issue) sets aside three relevant interdisciplinary matters: (1) the historical development of certain of the areas of theoretical work examined; (2) the choice of theoretical terms; and (3) the ongoing discursive/nondiscursive debate with respect to the material…

Criticizes humanists who consider computers confining, difficult to learn, and dehumanizing. (NKA)

The paper describes a multidisciplinary team approach that enhances communication between the school and the team regarding services for socially and emotionaly disturbed children. A program integrating assessment and consultation services is provided. The program includes structured observations of the child at school. (Author/CL)

The review of issues in teacher education for secondary special education focuses on elementary versus secondary education, differentiation of secondary roles, concerns for quantity and quality, specialized categorical programing, and the interdisciplinary training. Recommendations are made for each of the issue areas. (Author/CL)

To determine the extent to that University-Affiliated Facilities were directing training activities toward groups other than registered college and university students, data were collected from 23 interdisciplinary centers. Presentations which addressed essentials of appropriate programing for the handicapped occurred most frequently, with parents…

Presents the application of an interdisciplinary media program approach with specific emphasis on botany and related sciences at the Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School in Newton, Massachusetts. (Author/ER)

The field of international comparative education is constructed by relations of power and conflict. Comparative education contains an intrinsic tension between "sameness" and "difference." The dominant approach tends toward sameness and the elimination of variation, while one critique of the dominant approach tends toward an…

The musical approach to teaching a number of subjects is described. (DB)

Discusses the failure of traditional approaches to problem-solving in social systems and proposes a cybernetic system as a means of dealing with complex urban problems. (AA)

Problems of mini-schools are discussed, and some possible solutions are given. (DB)