Examines speech communication as a discipline that addresses questions of "how" things happen across contexts rather than questions of "what" happens within any one context. Highlights the potential this view presents for cooperation between scholars in speech communication and scholars in other disciplines. (JMF)

Discusses a subdiscipline of history, Quantitative Social Scientific History (QUASSH), which encompasses economic, political, and social histories. Suggests that devotees of this subdiscipline neglect mainstream historical skills and the work of other historians to the detriment of their own work. (Author/KC)

Demonstrates the relevance of ecology to sociological research and discusses some of the theoretical perspectives embodied in ecology. Examines ecology's emphasis upon the population rather than the individual as the unit of observation and on organizations as products of the interaction of population and environment. (DB)

Discusses the background of business communication as a profession and as an academic discipline. Describes Kenneth Boulding's model for establishing the legitimacy of a profession, and uses this model to advance the legitimacy of the profession of business communication. (SR)

Examines patterns in disciplinary formation and studies that have examined disciplinary formation of English as a school subject. Suggests that some benefit could result from focusing on the particulars of micro-level situations in disciplinary formation and that such an approach might serve as a correction to analyses that sometimes force…

Analyzes 40 concepts in adult education in relation to time, space, policy, theory, and ideals, as well as tensions and competition among them. Seven categories of concepts are presented: core, international, institutional, work related, learning, curricular, and structural. (SK)

This qualitative study explored faculty's perceptions of the effects of sustained discourse across disciplines on attitudes and behaviors related to scholarship and intellectual interaction at one research university. Many participants reported developing new approaches for teaching and research that spanned disciplinary perspectives, enhancing…

This bibliography attempts comprehensive coverage of the historical writings on the field of information science in North America. It is divided into three sections: books (including encyclopedia articles), journal articles, and unpublished papers and dissertations. (Author/LRW)

Discusses why the concept of organizational culture in higher education institutions has failed to reflect the dual position of academics in their disciplinary and institutional contexts, the former of which is generally the determining factor in most academics' conception of their identities. (EV)

Examines how a disciplinary shift was brought about in an individual. The impetus for the shift was social and organizational, the process was undergone in a bureaucratic context, and the outcome was a scientific identity of a transdisciplinary nature, in which competencies in the social and life sciences were interwoven in daily practices. (EV)

Retells the history of United States rhetorical studies as a negotiation over the meaning of the concepts of invention and imagination. Provides a genealogical outline of the transformation of the imagination in rhetorical theory. Concludes by urging a consideration of the "imaginary," a psychoanalytic understanding of the collective unconscious,…

Presents a model which demonstrates that a previous finding of a positive correlation between research productivity and breadth of interest does not hold if one considers what the data would look like if the variables were independent. (CLB)

Institutions offering programs in health education are listed by state, and information is provided on specializations and degrees offered. (IAH)

Asserts that experimental research articles are "explanatory minihistories," of reading containing elements of prescription, description, and prediction found in most histories. Argues that reading historians will have to select from among these minihistories to arrive at an explanatory history of the reading field. (MM)

Argues that communication as an academic discipline is at a critical point in its evolution, and the western region is poised to play a most influential role during the next few years. Challenges members of the Western States Communication Association to resist potential institutional assaults by leading the communication discipline in a…