Noting that "reputable" theorists differ widely on even the most fundamental assumptions concerning the scope, principles, and methods proper for studies in dramatic theory, this annotated bibliography provides an overview of the discipline and suggests the wide range of opinions and methods present within it. While emphasizing recent…

A separation between textual production and textual consumption is not a self-evident state of being for English studies. The gap in English studies has been constructed in large part along the lines of production of texts as opposed to the consumption of texts. Several articles published in the 1980s called for a unifying theory of composition…

"This paper on philosophy investigates the historical precursors of the social sciences in the writings of the great philosophers, ancient and modern, dividing them into two groups according to their opposite attitudes toward women." Schuck, p.585. (JH)

Argues the importance of a balanced view of the past in which male and female accomplishments are regarded as equally worthyof analysis and from which the cult of the great man and sagas of men-of-action are banished. (JH)

"The failure of sociaology to deal meaningfully with the place of women in society throws a harsh light on the insufficience of the theoretical models that have shaped the profession's work for the past quarter-century." (Author/JH)

By providing conventions, journals, and bibliographies as outlets for scholarship and research, speech communication associations make available resources necessary for the discipline to pursue its scholarship and serve as a distribution system for relevant research materials. An association also fulfills the important function of…

Presenting the long range development plan of the University's library collections, this policy statement identifies subjects of collecting interest and indicates appropriate collecting levels necessary to support those subjects. The major subject areas, arranged by academic divisions, include arts and letters; natural science and mathematics;…

The author suggests that the emerging fields of social practice (such as recreation, social work, and adult education) must all go through a sequential pattern of research needs, first superficially, and then in ever deeper cycles. The six phases of these research needs are: definition of the field (survey and descriptive studies, census studies,…

"News and Notes" is published periodically during the academic year. Topics of typical issues are rotated to include each of the several social science disciplines and social science education. Usually included are: 1) A lead article focusing on what's new in the social sciences; 2) Descriptions of social studies/social science classroom…

High school psychology cannot be considered the offspring of the American Psychological Association (APA) or of legitimate psychology in the United States. Although it originally discouraged the pre-college teaching of psychology, the APA now backs the venture. Improving the teaching of psychology at the high school level began around 1960 and…

Examines charges that unjustifiable imbalances in the allocation of resources to curriculum areas are widespread in British secondary schools. Suggests that there is little reliable evidence to substantiate these criticisms, and that the present controversy is based upon subjective impressions and unsound data which may be a consequence of special…

A process of professionalization of the humanities has occurred as a result of the proliferation of specialities and subspecialities within each academic discipline. Suggestions are offered for re-establishing humanities as the basis for a common culture, for approaching questions which are fundamental to all disciplines. (SW)

Changes in the approach to history which suggest that it is becoming a social science include: cooperation between scholars from different disciplines; quantitative methods borrowed from statistics and economics; and analysis of the past in ways that social scientists use to study contemporary society. The author accepts these changes only…

The purpose of this paper was to determine the relationship between the characteristics of academic disciplines such as hard or soft subject, pure or applied, life or nonlife; and the number of books charged out of an academic library by students. (Author/KP)