The lack of national attention to preparing future faculty for their roles as citizen-scholars represents a significant missed opportunity. Whereas graduate student involvement in engaged teaching and research, such as service-learning or community-based research, likely has immediate benefits for retention and learning, this article focuses on…

The division of cognitive labor is fundamental to all cultures. Adults have a strong sense of how knowledge is clustered in the world around them and use that sense to access additional information, defer to relevant experts, and ground their own incomplete understandings. One prominent way of clustering knowledge is by disciplines similar to…

With this thesis, I present a case study of the effort to graduate 500 "Maori" doctorates in five years in New Zealand in order to advance our understanding of a successful Indigenous higher education initiative. By paying careful attention to contextual factors, I describe the theoretical and practical significance of this effort and…

Linguistics is a subject that has remained largely confined to the academy, rather than being integrated into school curricula. This is unfortunate but not surprising, as although some teacher education programs include courses on linguistics, it is not comprehensively integrated into teacher education, so it is largely absent from the curriculum.…

Discusses historians' attitudes expressed in a survey about cultural diversity, social change, and historical research. Questions basic public interests and needs that people feel. Concludes that the great strength of the United States is that individuals have the freedom to pursue individual searches for memory and meaning. (CFR)

The content of higher education and, in particular, the discipline of history has been lost in the massive New York City system. A center or institute for history to serve the entire system and to reestablish intellectual excellence is envisioned. (JH)

W. V. O. Quine's analysis of the analytic and synthetic distinction is discussed. The implications of his argument for science are stated as: (1) the importance of formal logic and proofs in science is reduced; (2) the importance of rhetoric in science is recognized; (3) the meaning of words cannot be fixed, and nonexistent identities between…

This paper attempts to examine the situation of subject specialists in small or middle sized institutions and to contrast it with that of the larger ones. (Author/AP)

This symposium includes the title article by David Brody and "How Union Members and Nonmembers View the Role of Unions" (Carol Keegan); "American Labor History: A Conspiracy of Silence?" (Roy Rosenzweig); and "Are the Media Shortchanging Organized Labor?" (John A. Grimes). (SK)

The field of historical geography, concerning the role of place in history, is isolated from both parent fields, especially in the United States and Canada, but is increasingly losing touch with geography, which until recently was losing ground in higher education. (MSE)

This paper considers a new way of framing the changes currently being pursued in higher education course provision. The introduction presents two propositions: that lifelong learning and the notion of the learning individual is becoming a central consideration in our society; and that those who work in institutions should be striving to build a…

Offers objections to the idea as presented earlier by Joseph Schwab. (SP)

Results of confrontation between political theory and behavioralism: (1) language clarification; (2) prescriptive theory--the recognition of values and consideration of social and political principles; (3) analytic theory--framework for analysis of phenomena; and (4) composite theory--merging of analytical theorists and political philosophers. (SE)