A critique of "Evolution in the Professorship: Past, Philosophy, Future," by Donald J. Willower, published in the summer 1983 issue of this journal. (MLF)

John A. Clark's critique of "Evolution in the Professorship: Past, Philosophy, Future," by Donald J. Willower (published in the summer 1983 issue of this journal) is refuted by the author. (MLF)

This paper proposes that elements of pragmatist philosophy are anti-rhetorical and encourage a cultural status quo. It tries to isolate the idiosyncratic meaning of the vocabulary that Charles Sanders Peirce uses in the foundational definition of pragmatism and shows how his reliance on logic forestalls possibilities for agency. Antonio Gramsci's…

Contains general background and pertinent context that relate to creativity programs and their effectiveness from a disciplinary or instructiveness point of view. Discusses what constitutes a "program" and elaborates on disciplinary characteristics and creativity. (SLD)

Cooperative education has been limited by its characterization as an educational strategy, model, or method. As cooperative education enters its second century, it needs to be reinvented as an academic discipline with its own body of knowledge and precepts in order to assume its place within the academy. (JOW)

Explores appropriate ways of including the contemplative and spiritual within higher education's disciplinary search for truth. (EV)

This feature includes four articles, three of which present arguments for alternative titles for the field of physical education: Movement Science, Kinesiology, and Exercise and Sport Science. The fourth article discusses the genesis, organization, and current philosophy and purpose of the Exercise Science Department at the University of…

The first of three articles presenting a framework for teaching subject-matter disciplines in light of the potentials of computers considers the computer as a metaphor. Topics addressed include the state of knowledge in the disciplines, parallels between the computer and disciplinary knowledge, and implications for curriculum design. (20…

Offers a keynote address presented to the Southern States Communication Association. Outlines why communication may be considered the central academic discipline, a site where other disciplines intersect. Issues a challenge to take stock and pride in the discipline of communication. (SR)

Argues that, although organizational communication as a field of study appears fragmented, a case for its status as a discipline can be made. Cites four central problematics that frame a sense of community and identity among scholars: that of voice, rationality, organization, and organization-society relationship--making organizational…

Discusses the relevance of philosophy to education, conceptualizing this relationship in terms of a foundational view of the relationship conceiving of education as resting on a foundation of philosophy and a nonfoundational view that there is a mutual dependence of the two disciplines. (SLD)

Discusses three positions regarding the definition of sociolinguistic theory: (1) sociolinguistic theory is proper linguistic theory; (2) sociolinguistic theory is an accumulation of mini-theories; and (3) sociolinguistic theory as social theory. (Author/VWL)

In "EPAT", vol. 36, no. 1, 2004, James Muir takes the author and fellow philosophers of education to task for their ignorance of the history of philosophy of education. "[T]oo many currently influential educationists, Professor White in particular, are literally unaware that educational philosophy has a history more than three hundred years in…

This article evaluates geography as an appropriate home for environmental education. First, it argues that many geographers have defined geography as a discipline with a major, if not primary, interest in human-environment interactions. Next, it reviews the recent statements by non-geographer, environmental scholars that, directly or indirectly,…

The paper's goal is to propose a conceptual framework, a "knowledge infrastructure," demonstrating that social gerontology is at the point of becoming a distinct academic discipline. The various phases of gerontological development that have led to the current stage are outlined. The components of the framework are arranged vertically by three…