Draws and extends from earlier papers and articles the author has presented and conversations he has had with colleagues over a 30-year period of time. Explores factors that have contributed to the decline in speech and theater education. (SG)

Despite variety in the culture of the sciences, certain processes of knowledge construction are common throughout. Examination of how disciplinary identities are produced through rhetoric and how assessments of certainty and uncertainty are made across disciplines suggests that disciplines should not be regarded as fixed structures but as flexible…

Finds that introductory students who wrote an essay supporting an empirical orientation toward psychology were more likely to conduct an experiment when given a choice of assignment, compared to a control group. Discusses implications for teaching students to view psychology as a science. (Author/NL)

Data is presented from a survey of 614 4-year institutions regarding departmental name changes in physical education, health, recreation, and dance. Emerging trends are discussed, and implications regarding the future of the profession are drawn. (IAH)

Some of the ways in which a system of program evaluation works to suppress diversity, innovation, and nonconformist approaches in the search for knowledge are discussed. The Ontario experience calls into question the appropriateness of a total system-wide application of the connoisseurship model. (MLW)

The annual meeting of the American Historical Association is reported, including the "history in crisis" vs "history being revitalized" debate. In the 1960s, a younger generation of scholars pioneered the "new social history"; in the 1980s, political divisions have contributed to the debate. (MLW)

The history of professional continuing education in pharmacy is chronicled since the establishment of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's Section of Teachers of Continuing Education in 1968. (MSE)

Maintains that the humanities get "screwed" in the academy because they are feminized. Explores this process of "feminization," focusing on college English departments. Offers a different view of the relationship between "soft" humanities and "hard" disciplines, reconceived from a feminist perspective. (SR)

Adopting standards, methods, and research contexts from the well-established disciplines of mathematics, psychology, and pedagogy may undermine the applied nature of mathematics education. Suggests thinking of mathematics education as a relatively autonomous design science. Contains 36 references. (Author/MKR)

Curriculum integration, in theory and practice, transcends subject-area and disciplinary identifications without abandoning them. The goal is integrative activities that use knowledge (to pursue new meanings) without regard for subject or discipline lines. As boundaries disappear, curriculum integration may engage knowledge not easily ascribed to…

According to responses from 117 of 277 business school deans, they favored keeping business communication courses in their schools when offered by tenured faculty in a strong unit; otherwise they favored transfer to another school. Scholarly productivity of faculty influenced the favorable decision. (SK)

Public administration is at risk of losing its theoretical distinctiveness based on public law, leaving it vulnerable to advocates of the entrepreneurial management model. Administrative principles rooted in law can accommodate useful contemporary management concepts without compromising accountable public sector management. (SK)

Using criteria to determine whether a discipline is a science, the author defines andragogy as a technological discipline that applies principles discovered by the sciences of adult education--educational psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology. He suggests that andragogy could become the general science of adult education by studying…

A scholarship of teaching is recommended, requiring precise observation, the recording of information, and the systematic pursuit of understanding teaching as an intellectual activity. This article outlines the kind of scholarship needed and ways to promote such scholarship through thinking, talking, and sharing views about teaching. (DB)

Examines the structure of the discipline of communication using the frequency of joint memberships in the International Communication Association's divisions and interest groups. Finds that the structure is more complex than previously suggested by bibliometric research. (SR)