Identifies 31 research topics concerning the future that geographers can explore. Suggests how various research topics will benefit society as well as geographic education. Topics include malnutrition as a cause of social instability, cultural exclusion of the aged, global firewood shortage, and vulnerability of water supplies. (Author/DB)

Questions whether scholars involved in educational studies should approach the subject from the point of view of established disciplines or from an interdisciplinary point of view. Presents position statements on all sides of this question from the writings of major educational philosophers. (DB)

Suggests that psychology as a discipline in secondary schools should include, in addition to academic content, a focus on value development and psychological growth, thus balancing the intellectual and experiential realms. (Author/GC)

Discusses the secondary status in teaching history in relation to contemporary emphasis on values, self-esteem, and attitude. Explains how this has taken place and proposes returning content to a primary position by teaching history as a usable past. (CK)

Fundamental problems within the field of educational psychology include: changes in traditional psychological concepts of intelligence and psychometrics, conflicts in the type of research undertaken, quality of instruction, an overall tendency toward a lack of confidence among educational psychologists, and a narrow perception of their field. (BH)

Traces the establishment in 1918 and development of the Native Administration course in South African universities, its competition with political science and public administration for discipline distinction, and its eventual change to Applied Anthropology in mid-1970s. (ND)

This book is a significant contribution to the field of sociology of school knowledge. It looks at the historical development of the field and argues that, although this field has appealed only to a limited audience, it has the potential to reach a larger audience of scholars if an alternative research agenda could be created. (SLD)

Argues that mainstream composition studies is narrow in scope and limited in perspective. Offers thoughts that might help composition professionals improve the situation. Provides evidence of neglect of writing in English as a Second Language and languages other than English. Introduces concepts from second-language studies that could help…

Argues that statistical data can be misleading. Explores two types of indicators of growth and transformation of communication studies: statistics on degrees granted and trends in the classification of books and serials. Shows that, for each type of indicator, the emergence of communication as a category involved qualitative transformation of the…

Examines four postmodern forms of thought that are posing fundamental challenges to modern assumptions about knowledge; all reject absolute foundations of knowledge, which are rooted in the notion that legitimate intellectual activity is the discipline-based pursuit of knowledge of entities that exist before and independent of inquiry. Offers a…

Investigated predictors of attainment in British students awarded first degrees. Those aged under 21 or between 26 and 50 at graduation were more likely to obtain good degrees (with first-class or upper second-class honors), but the pattern of age-related variation was different across different subjects of study. Overall, women were more likely…

Discusses full-text databases and whether existing aggregator databases are meeting user needs. Topics include the need for better search interfaces; concepts of quality research and information retrieval; information overload; full text in electronic journal collections versus aggregator databases; underrepresentation of certain disciplines; and…

Examined the extent to which labor-market conditions and the sex-composition of academic disciplines influenced average disciplinary salaries, based on the average, full-time 1988-89 salaries of new assistant professors for 16 academic disciplines. Findings from both cross-sectional and dynamic models indicated that both labor-market conditions…

A new salary survey highlights concerns about the growing pay gap between professional-school faculty members and everyone else. Offers a table of average faculty salaries by field at 4-year institutions. (EV)

Interviews with 75 women faculty and administrators revealed how a cohort of academic women came to challenge and revise traditional content and organization of academic knowledge. Intellectual biographies and career histories gave insight into how knowledge organization has constrained or facilitated feminist scholars advocating…