In 1998, the researcher participated in a graduate-level interpretive methods class as a teaching assistant. This paper considers several aspects of the approach used in this class to teach interpretive research methods. These approaches include: (1) the introduction of five different research traditions recognized as qualitative; (2) the…

Discussions about the basic communication course abound at the National Communication Association Convention and at other meetings, in the "Basic Communication Course Annual," and in the journal "Communication Education." Little progress has been made, however, on seven issues of central importance to the basic course in higher…

Heeding the call of noted rhetoric scholar Richard E. Young to engage in serious, scholarly investigations of the assumptions that underlie established practices and habits about writing, the contributors to this critical volume study a diverse array of disciplinary issues, situate their work in a wide matrix of theoretical perspectives, and…

An interdisciplinary approach reveals social reality as a totality and allows and promotes intelligent change in the construction and implementation of curriculum. (Author/KM)

A sense of the value of history-as-study encourages students and teachers to find more opportunities for spontaneous examples of insightful historical study. (Author/KM)

An emphasis on an integrative, interdisciplinary approach in high school and college is argued to be the best overall approach for the specialization for the student at the graduate level. (Author/KM)

Examines the notion of community in terms of language forms and specialized knowledge, and in terms of the social organization of the members of discipline groups. (Author)

Student unrest stems partially from a desire to find meaning in the education that they are receiving. (CK)

Examination of Newman's concept of the unity and structure of knowledge basic to his theory of a liberal education. (Author/MM)

First article in a series, including SO 500 586 and SO 500 621, defines the typical elements of social studies and how they came together in the Twentieth Century as required courses from kindergarten to grade 12. (DB)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

The present ludicrous Ph.D. program is a tragic waste of human lives and economic resources. (IR)

The dominant paradigms in different disciplines influence the nature of research and practice in those fields. The ability to detect which theories are about to change and to identify the new theories most likely to succeed them is a skill that futurists and educators at all levels need to develop. (Author/RM)

Higher education's contemporary emergence as a scholarly specialty is compared with the development of some other specialities--economics, political science, sociology. An interpretation of how fields become disciplines is offered and some parallels between the social sciences at the turn of the century and higher education today are explored.…

Advocates an approach for teaching the civic education component of the social studies curriculum based on the teaching of political science. "Citizenship Decision-Making" materials are described as an example of curricula which conceptualize politics by permitting students to examine their own political experiences in comparison with the adult…