A study of various rhetorical strategies fellow academicians apply to colleagues who appear lacking in intellectual respectability. (CH)

John Paul II's 1990 apostolic exhortation "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" and subsequent legislation require those teaching theological disciplines in Catholic universities to have a mandatum. This article explores the thought of John Cardinal Newman with a view to defending a position, consistent with Newman's thought, relative to the seeking and…

Sources of faculty discontent with university administration are discussed as background for a brief report of a case study. Evidence is raised against the usual arguments of university observers. A sample of faculty members at one institution were surveyed and appeared divided approximately in half regarding contentment and discontentment. Group…

The differences between criminology and criminal justice are assessed by comparing them to a more abstract typology. This typology is comprised of four basic elements: the focal concerns of the fields; career patterns of professionals; the extent to which the fields are theoretically based and are disciplines, sciences, and professions; and the…

This paper reviews ranking studies of graduate level college and university departments of sociology in "The American Sociologist" from its inception in 1965 through 1980. "The American Sociologist" was selected as the source of ranking studies because of its function "as an organ of information and discussion for the…

THIS IS A CATALOG OF KINESCOPES AND RECORDED TELEVISION COURSES FOR THE ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, SECONDARY, AND COLLEGE LEVELS WHICH ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. THE SUBJECTS INCLUDE MATERIALS FROM EVERY PART OF THE CURRICULUM. (CL)

The document provides a means of organizing the career education learner outcomes for Texas students into a scope and sequence to be used as a framework for continued development of learner activities. The 177 learner outcomes (objectives) are presented in the following nine categories: career planning and decision making, career and occupational…

Since 1968, an increasing number of California community colleges have participated in the Presidents' Study, a study of Weekly Student Contact Hours (WSCH) and Full-Time Equivalent Faculty (FTE) to determine faculty work loads, cost factors, and trends. In 1973, 41 Northern and 26 Southern California community colleges reported. Golden West…

Generally, business policy is thought of as a course rather than as a field of study or as a broad discipline. This view has limited the development of substantive knowledge unique to the problems of total enterprise management. Evidence indicates that a broader view of these problems and new opportunities for further development are emerging.…

A study of the dynamic organization of content through the sequence of communication behaviors in the classroom attempted to 1) systematically analyze observed and classified communication behaviors of teachers and students in the classroom which relate to content; 2) display the data thus generated so that elements, sequences, and organizations…

The relationships among the types of subject matter studied in secondary school classes and the nature of interpersonal relationships in these classes and the pupils' perceptions of their class experiences is examined. To explore possible interactions between teacher characteristics and subject taught the sex of the teacher was included in the…

An address to the 1972 Convention of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, discussions are included concerning failures of traditional science programs in the present academic enterprise for the purpose of developing new guidelines for science education research. Irrelevance of disciplinary courses, formal study, and…

Economic education in the United States is a must since this discipline deals with a fundamental consistent problem -- uses and allocation of limited resources. Scarcity of resources in contrast to a man's unlimited wants requires that individuals make intelligent decisions and choices which will be reflected in the marketplace, voting booth, and…

Collected are reports of experimental instructional projects and educational programs generated by teachers at the Big Ten universities. The purpose is to exchange information among college teachers, administrators, and educational researchers about ways to improve the conditions for learning. The focus is on changes in a particular discipline…

The thesis that knowledge falls into a limited number of logically distinct categories--the discipline thesis"--has been particularly influential in curriculum theory in recent years. Examines the implications of this thesis for mathematics and for curriculum design. (Author/RK)