Calls for historians of rhetoric to return to the archives. Argues that it is the neglect of training graduate students in standard research methodologies that prevents the field from writing "better" histories of rhetoric. Argues for archival training similar to that given to graduate students in history departments, training tailored…

Suggests that working beyond the academy should be understood not as an abandonment of the academic job market, a response to failure, or a curse: instead, it should be understood as a new avenue for intellectual work, one that neither graduate-school programs nor the Modern Language Association would be wise to ignore. (RS)

Traces the history of the British language-awareness (LA) movement from its grassroots origins, through its confrontation with the establishment, to its eventual academization. Provides an extended definition of LA, compares LA with the complementary and parallel enterprise of consciousness raising, and cites new developments in the fields of…

Describes a new doctoral program in "public intellectualism" at Florida Atlantic University intended for journalists, artists, and activists. Two year-long required courses, "Public Matters," and "Rhetoric and Principle," form the centerpiece of the curriculum. Students then concentrate in one of 13 areas and also…

Advocates a position on the margins of English studies. Provides a general introduction to analytic philosophy of language. Elaborates Donald Davidson's work on interpretation, which demonstrates why truth and rationality are inextricably linked to language and communication. Calls for reconfiguring the debate between and assessment of the…

Introduces the special issue dealing with discipline formation in business communication. Notes that the special issue is meant to capture a critical juncture in the field as it struggles between competing impulses to make the field more clear, coherent, and compact and yet more tolerant, open, and dynamic. (SR)

Explores the potential of translation as a survival strategy that enables business communication specialists to continue practicing the discipline and consider translation as a powerful heuristic proposing new questions about the research agenda for business communication and, ultimately, about its disciplinary character. Uses the term…

Explores the idea that a sense of school subject image is a necessary feature of curriculum management and a potent force for change. Highlights include developments in the United Kingdom in design and technology education; the importance of image; image, change, and school subjects; and the formation of image. (Author/LRW)

Examines the discipline of technology; discusses technology education; and proposes multidisciplinary technology education, inspired through efforts in art education, as a middle path between the technology mono-discipline and design and technology curriculum. Comparative curriculum and the organization of knowledge in multidisciplinary technology…

Presents universe data on numbers of degrees conferred in the 50 states and District of Columbia by field of study, level and control of institution, level of degree, and race/ethnicity and gender of recipient. Data are from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. (SLD)

Discusses what is meant by the scholarship of teaching and outlines what needs to be done to develop the scholarship of teaching in higher education through the disciplines, focusing on undergraduate education. Briefly reviews how far these concepts have been applied in the discipline of geography. (SLD)

It is not gender that differentiates home economics from other disciplines, but the Hestian life world it addresses: being and becoming human. Home economics needs descriptive and explanatory theory that supports its reason for being. (SK)

Explores how changes in conceptual frameworks in science, from reductionism to complexity; an outgrowth of the chaos theory that views parts in relation to one another, the entity they form, and the environment, must inform the development of an academic discipline in women's health. (SLD)

Explores broad patterns in Britain's undergraduate curriculum change in five subject areas. The curriculum is understood as an educational project forming identities founded in three domains: knowledge, action, and self. Proposes curriculum models that identify these components and their relationships, and discusses how weightings and levels of…

Although no one assumes that faculty from all disciplines are alike, how these disciplinary affiliations affect the way faculty approach teaching and learning may not be fully appreciated. Article suggests that this affiliation is essential to the success of faulty and student affairs collaborations on campus. (Author/MKA)