Individual differences in publication rates are examined for a small sample of faculty. Among the conclusions are that academic rank, degree qualifications, academic discipline, and number of years since receipt of first degree significantly affect publication rates. (MSE)

The underlying problems which should guide the revision of the secondary social studies curriculum in New York state are examined. Educational principles are discussed; explanatory statements regarding social science disciplines, history, social studies, and concept teaching are provided; and teacher education and student evaluation are…

Because of attitudes and policies, women academics are clustered in service rather than career areas of their professions. The social and academic results of this underrepresentation include the loss of valuable contributions from women. Policy areas needing change are employment conditions, inclusion in decision making, and child care. (MSE)

A study designed to provide a rational basis for establishing student teacher ratios for certain fields of study in Australian colleges is described. It analyzed student and faculty contact hours, student load, full-time-equivalent staff, class size, and academic workload and integrated them into mathematical models for the fields. (MSE)

Analyzes the social and political milieu which gave rise to Native American Studies a decade ago. Questions what constitutes American Indian Studies and how this subject area relates to older, established academic disciplines. Discusses internal and external pressures shaping the present style and future composition of Native American Studies…

Policy science is a new intellectual discipline which attempts to rationalize social life or conditions. Policy science faces two major obstacles: (1) the lack of convergence of different research efforts and (2) the treatment of bias and normative values. (GDC)

This paper looks at current definitions of aesthetic education and, in light of present views on learning theory and teaching methodology, suggests means and materials for devising new programs which might realistically meet the needs of modern American students. (Author/SJL)

Presents a state of the art of sociology teaching and questions the extent to which there exists a mandate to reorient sociology for job preparation. Concludes that such a mandate exists among a portion of undergraduate majors and that job preparations should be stressed along with the liberal arts dimension of sociology. (Author/DB)

Maintains that decision-making and social-action skills are basic to geographic instruction and suggests ways in which these skills can be developed. (Author/DB)

The author identifies these as the most important changes in general educational theory over the last 25 years: a movement toward cross-disciplinary perspectives, a widening of perspective to include the social context of schooling, and a swing from positivist research methods toward more qualitative and holistic approaches. (SJL)

In the twentieth century, educational philosophy has turned from grand system building toward approaches which consider the process of education itself to be the source of issues requiring a philosophical, value-oriented resolution. Philosophical inquiry has extended to social, psychological, and human issues. (Editor/SJL)

The current status of secondary physical education is examined in five determinants of curriculum and in presentations of specific styles of physical education curriculum. Curriculum styles such as disciplinary, personalized, and social reordering are chosen based on students, teachers, schools, equipment, facilities, and subject matter involved.…

Argues that, although the high salaries of faculty "superstars" may disadvantage other faculty and staff, particularly in a period of downsizing, the more serious problem is the tradition of large discipline-based differences in faculty salaries which undermine the principles of merit-based compensation. Resentment of "superstar" salaries may have…

Explores how paradigm choices influence faculty's professional lives in legal education, using qualitative research methods. Argues that there is a paradigm culture that operates in conjunction with other faculty cultures, and suggests findings about law school faculty may apply to related disciplines, particularly the social sciences. (Author/MSE)

Quality Function Deployment, a set of concepts and tools used in manufacturing engineering to link consumer needs with product design, can also improve academic advising systems and processes. The technique promotes structured, logical examination of students' advising needs and their relationship to advising system design, processes, methods,…