An interview with a professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at the University of Arkansas focuses on evolution of the field of learning disabilities (LD), including early controversy over the term minimal brain dysfunction (MBD). S. Clements cites a need for adult education centers for postsecondary LD/MBD persons. (CL)

Classroom teachers and school mental health specialists must be better equipped to determine which students who practice deviant behavior are behaviorally disordered and which students are experiencing faulty social perception. (Author/PHR)

Accountability is a useful concept when kept within reasonable limits. Teachers should gladly accept accountability for their own actions in teaching, testing, and disseminating the results of education. But, until better research exists on teacher influence, they should firmly oppose the excessive demand that they be accountable for student…

The first steps toward effectively managing a property insurance program are a complete understanding of the insurance contract and a professional appraisal. (Author)

Clarifies problems concerning the nature and scope of rhetoric, including its relation to human knowledge, by viewing rhetorical methods as universal, rule-governed, and productive of knowledge having normative force. Knowledge is conceptualized as developing within a social-symbolic sphere of methods, subject matters, derivations, applications,…

In this reconsideration of social knowledge, an attempt is made to resolve ambiguities related to the original project on social knowledge. Three regions of dispute fostered by the original essay are examined and explained: the definition of social knowledge, the issue of form, and the problems of normative impact. (JMF)

Presents 26 German words and phrases that are used in Spanish today. Definitions are provided and examples of their use in Spanish texts are given. (NCR)

This paper attempts to describe the psychopathology of the borderline patient. Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults, and adolescents are given. Genetic considerations and psychic structures are discussed with their resulting treatment implications. Finally, outpatient treatment strategies are presented in detail, including…

Presents 45 terms related to the plastics industry, arranged in alphabetical order in English with definitions in English and in French. (AM)

Examines the background and pros and cons of the inquiry method of teaching and reviews uses of inquiry techniques in science education literature. Also states reasons for inquiry in science instruction. (DB)

Reporting of development news requires the journalist to examine, evaluate, and report the relevance of a development project to national and local needs. (JMF)

Examines the basic color vocabulary of modern standard French in the light of recent research on color vocabularies. In attempting to justify the two basic terms for brown, this study gives some account of the collocational factors which determine the selection of one or the other in particular contexts. (AMH)

Past work in the field is examined at four levels: the social structural, the institutional, that of action and the social psychological in both the psychological and sociological traditions. Moral choice is analyzed into three components with each component applied to moral education in an attempt to indicate worthwhile future directions for…

Examines the concept that all perceptual development seems to involve the tactile or sense of feel and attempts to comprehend this relationship. Its implications for teaching reading and for developing instructional techniques are also considered. (Author/RK)

Reliance upon poorly written behavioral objectives and single measurement devices do more than transcend the written mandates of "T and E". "T and E", thorough and efficient education, suggests reasonable levels of attainment in a comprehensive pupil assessment process. Objectives can take different meanings and here a proper educational objective…