The struggles over "who gets what" in academe have been labeled "turf wars." The quest for resources is directly linked to a department's ability to successfully lay claim to specific academic turf or particular facets of the study of communication, which in turn affects student appeal, and therefore, enrollments. Departments…

A study examined the growth of environmental journalism education in academia and continuing education in the early 1990s. Questionnaires were completed by 25 educators and readers of "JournE," a publication of the Environmental Health Center of the National Safety Council. While an estimate of the reliability of the overall return rate…

Noting that the chance to utilize a new paradigm is an opportunity that rarely presents itself, this paper suggests that chaos theory and communication can be combined to help understand human communication. The paper begins by examining the complexity of human communication--that is, the internal and external factors that affect the complexity of…

Recognizing a growing globalization of nations and cultures, "Zeitschrift fur erziehungs--und sozialwissenchaftliche Forschung" brings together educational and social science research topics that address the interactions between education and society in their pedagogical, social, physical, economic, legal, and administrative dimensions.…

Twenty-five years ago a small volume of essays entitled "Crisis in the Humanities" was published containing an ominous message: namely, that the humanistic disciplines had arrived at a crossroad--a turning point at which a decisive change for better or worse was imminent. Humanistic scholarship appears to have declined since that…

A report of the author's research on the attitude of sociologists toward the black studies movement, in which are described the characteristics of the two polar groups of white sociologists, the embracers and the antagonists, and the substance of their respective positions and behavioral consequences are summarized. Potential areas for cooperation…

In the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) study, "Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity" (Sierpinska and Kilpatrick, 1998), an eclectic point of view is adopted in terms of both the object of study in mathematics education and the objectives of research, the types of problems that it…

The origins of social science as a discipline are analyzed in terms of the German scientific community before 1920, which tended to define itself according to the theories of Karl Marx or Immanuel Kant. Following a brief introduction about the nature of social science debates in intellectual Germany, section 2 of the paper considers whether the…

Students in English education typically have to live in (at least) two worlds: departments of English in which they receive their disciplinary training, and departments or schools or programs of education in which they work to develop the pedagogical content knowledge they need to teach in that discipline. Often those worlds are far apart. In this…

In this paper it is argued that the concept of integrity in a person, or an activity, or an institution, is intimately connected with notions of wholeness and completeness, and that the creation of integrity consists in developing an awareness of the possibility of greater wholeness and completeness, and in creating environments in which they may…

This issue includes a syllabus for a world religions course from the Windsor Board of Education, Ontario; a teacher's experience in developing a world religions course in Cathedral Girls' High School, Ontario; and a rationale for teaching philosophy in the high school. (JH)

The increasing emphasis on formal social science education in secondary schools has caused the partial displacement of history in some schools by courses in other social sciences; thus, this article reevaluates the generalizing function of history in its relationship with the social sciences. (Author/ND)

This bibliography provides a list of sources for students, scholars, and librarians who want information about theses completed or in preparation at Canadian universities. The sources are presented under three headings: general bibliographies, theses lists by university, and specialized bibliographies. For monographic items, the author, title, and…

The prospective major fields of study and career plans of National Merit Finalists are recorded on the scholarship application forms submitted during the students' senior year in high school. (Finalists are selected from the top 1% in measured scholastic ability.) A study of the answers given from 1957-67 indicates that interest among boys in the…

Common approaches to ordering the curriculum content of a scholastic discipline include a hierarchical structuring of the discipline's major concepts and a view of inquiry as learners solving problems. Other approaches include logical prerequisite, concept inclusion, generalization, concept interrelationship, chronology, and subject matter.…