Reviews the impact of the Association for Business Communication on development of business communication as an academic discipline in areas such as nurturing teachers; establishing advanced courses, majors, and PhDs in business communication; providing access to communicators in business; providing a voice for the profession; and facilitating…

Describes the development of a course bridging the theory of art history and the practice of studio art courses at St. Olaf College (Minnesota). Addresses the gap often found in higher education between the visual and liberal arts. Discusses the trials and elations of designing a course that overlaps these traditional boundaries. (DSK)

Describes and critiques recent changes in educational inquiry by outlining the themes and implications of the current interest in postmodernism. The focus is on changes in methodology, summative content, and disciplinary foundations. The relationship of these changes to educational research and the training of researchers is discussed. (SLD)

Sketches an abstracted and idealized profession of English--a profession that fosters no politics and entails no internal conflicts, and whose members care about language and its uses, about the transmission of knowledge and skills, and a capacity for pleasure in the text. (RS)

Describes critical race theory (CRT), an eclectic and dynamic form of legal scholarship that evolved as a response to the stalled progress of traditional civil rights litigation. CRT, as a form of oppositional scholarship, challenges the experience of whites as the normative standard and grounds its conceptual framework in the experiences of…

Schools must reconsider subject discipline standardization and design a curriculum to reduce instructional fragmentation and isolationism and combat the curse of coverage undermining teacher innovation. This article presents a continuum of curriculum-design options, from discipline-oriented to student-centered. Teachers can develop curriculum…

Surveyed 141 teachers from nine Massachusetts high schools to examine their knowledge of and attitudes toward AIDS. Results indicated a direct relationship between teachers' knowledge of HIV/AIDS and positive or supportive attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. There were significant differences based on academic discipline. Allied health teachers had…

Presents tables that contain the most current data available on media specialist certification requirements in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Educational program, experience, recommendation, minimum test scores, knowledge in various subject areas, competencies, and practicums are listed. (Author/LRW)

Examines stylistic conventions across disciplines in the language of doctoral theses, arguing that these conventions reflect sophisticated learning of key disciplinary norms governing the conception, production, and reporting of knowledge in particular fields. Attention is directed to the structure of argument and techniques for coherence,…

An 18-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines provides a rudimentary map to a renewed vision of American higher education by opening classroom doors to real-world experiences in workplaces and communities. Discusses: the series background; inclusiveness and disciplinary legitimacy as guiding principles; variations on a theme;…

Studied the purposes of assignments, teacher feedback comments, and student perceptions and expectations through interviews with 2 Australian faculty members and their 62 undergraduate students. Teachers and students broadly agreed on assignment purposes, but teacher feedback did not fully correspond to those purposes. Nor did feedback match…

States that knowledge has disappeared in and from adult education because it is rarely viewed as educational content or a didactic task of instruction. Explains that this is due to both internal and external disciplinary reasons and discusses these reasons in detail. (CMK)

Explores the thesis that educational theory plays a crucial role in training teachers in the area of pedagogics. Stresses references to the discipline of educational science and advocates training pedagogics teachers and instruction in pedagogics tuned to the principles of a science orientation. (CMK)

Studied the influence of demographic variables on the British public's perceptions of the usefulness of retaining faculties from different disciplines. Found that people's perceptions of what is worthy are not based on political affiliation but are dependent on a number of socioeconomic variables. (EV)

Reports on an analysis of research article introductions from two related fields, Wildlife Behavior and Conservation Biology, using Swales' (1990), "Genre Analysis. English in Academic and Research Settings." Results of the analysis reveal disciplinary variation in the structure of this genre, which has important pedagogical implications.…