Defines the discipline of instructional science, discusses its applications, and reviews three instructional models--the component theory display, elaboration theory of instruction, and motivational design of instruction--to illustrate the kind of integrative, multi-perspectived common knowledge base needed at this point in the development of…

In response to an orienting essay about the scholarship of teaching and learning, scholars from 10 disciplines describe the evolution of a discourse about teaching and learning, the ways in which their discipline's style of discourse influences inquiry into teaching and learning, and the nature and role of intellectual exchange across disciplines…

The discipline of teacher education and technology is poised to leave poor research behind and to remove the false wall between qualitative and quantitative methods of describing, predicting, and controlling education. The arguments used by Dewey early in the century against the dualisms of his day are still powerful and have a bearing on the…

This paper describes the present "state of the art" of the field of "empirical studies of literature" and explains how this state has come about, given the interdisciplinary and international character of the groups involved. This entails looking at the relationships among, for example, the disciplinary and national influences…

The author argues the case for the acceptance of the Law of Communications as a separate, self sufficient legal discipline with the same status as a great many of the legal subjects taught in universities.'' (Author/AK)

Educators in the humanities field should strive to teach people how to cope with the rules of society. (CK)

The discussion centers around the dimensions of classification and experience in the study of art, literature, the social sciences, and philosophy. (DB)

Defines the speech communication field and discusses the status of speech communication at the University of Georgia. (PD)

Discusses the speech communication field and program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. (PD)

Anthropology, because it deals with the totality of the human experience, can be introduced into the curriculum at any level and in many subject areas. Ways to turn a traditional social studies lesson into one in social science, emphasizing anthropology, are described. (RM)