Abraham Kaplan has produced the clearest philosophical insights in all of library literature into the real nature of library education by providing an outsider's view of librarianship that (1) explains the "mess" librarians are in; (2) identifies humanism as the firm foundation of their profession; and (3) correlates librarianship with…

The relationship between student demand for library books by subject area and the students' majors and courses undertaken was studied using a library's automated circulation system. During 1980-1982, book checkout at the university library declined 22 percent. History had the greatest decline in checkouts per student. Other fields with larger…

The major features of the paradigm argument are outlined and the disastrous effect that the paradigmatic mentality has had on the development of the new sociology of education is examined. The paradigm argument states that all knowledge is founded upon epistemological, theoretical, and political assumptions, and that, therefore, knowledge must be…

The three large problems in American higher education discussed in this article are 1) increasing uncertainity about the purpose of higher education; 2) increasing emphasis on passive study of abstractions; and 3) increasing monolingualism, a symbol a ethnocentrism or American "hybris." (JH)

This paper discusses the current status of precollege psychology teachers and what training and preparation these teachers have had for this position. Inquiry was also made into what is actually being taught at the secondary level. A two-part questionnaire was addressed to 2,000 secondary principals to obtain data. Responses (N=700) indicated that…

An inventory of academic degree programs in South Carolina is intended as an aid to institutional and to statewide planning for postsecondary education. In Part I, programs are listed by category (50 subject areas), using the National Center for Education Statistics' Classification of Instructional Programs. The following degree programs are…

Assignment of teachers to teach subjects for which they have not had academic preparation is a topic of considerable concern presently. This paper: (1) reviews present Colorado provisions regarding teacher subject eligibility and assignment; (2) reports available data as to the extent of teaching without academic preparation; (3) identifies…

Should an educational evaluator be trained as a content specialist, an evaluation specialist, or some combination of the two? A content specialist has demonstratable expertise in the field of study being evaluated, but not training in evaluation methods; the evaluation specialist has expertise in evaluation methods but may know little about the…

Cognitive science has recently emerged as a new interdisciplinary field incorporating parts of psychology, computer science, philosophy, neuroscience, and linguistics. Its goal is to bring the theoretical and methodological resources of the contributing disciplines to bear on an integrated investigation of thought, meaning, language, perception,…

Annotations on 2,948 bibliographies of dissertations, theses, and research completed and in progress for graduate degrees are presented. The bibliographies, produced through 1983 and most of 1984, are specialized and usually subject-oriented and cover current and retrospective research in the United States and throughout the world. The annotations…

A Master's curriculum in humanities education is described including a rationale, distinguishing between humanities education and the humanities; an outline of its humanities, education, and internship components; and procedures for implementing the curriculum. (JH)

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Research was performed pursuant to a contract with the U.S. Office of Education, under provisions of the Cooperative Research Program.

At present not-for-profit information accessing services play a unique role in the information transfer process as they provide long term discipline-oriented access to the subject content of individual primary published documents regardless of country of origin, language, or subject emphasis. While not all of these services are U.S. based or in…