This paper addresses the role of engineering PhD education and its relationship to innovation and technology, and the need to reconsider how we educate PhD engineers. Much of the effort on engineering education in the last two decades focused on undergraduate education with a few exceptions that relate to master degree programs. Doctoral education…

The author discusses needed improvements in the university training of Russian economists. (Author/RM)

Library School subject specialty courses contribute to a higher caliber graduate and a widening career spectrum. The current state of such courses is analyzed through data gathered from 59 accredited library science schools. A bibliography and sample lists of courses for art and environmental librarianship are appended. (MBR)

Explores factors influencing sport specialization in high school, including school size, students' desire to become star athletes, and the availability of sports camps and financial support for certain sports. Argues against specialization and professionalization as inconsistent with a high school's educational goals and provides suggestions for…

Poor teaching methods, misdirected student training, and failure to respond to the population's needs have placed American medical schools in a crisis. An emphasis on specialty medicine and high technology and graduation of excessive numbers of physicians exacerbate the crisis. Proposals to rectify the situation are presented. (TJH)

The defensive alignment of philosophy with science and then with art damaged the understanding of both science and art and produced a minor art form, positivism, whose function was to create the illusion of being a science. Philosophers have forfeited their unique integrative and imaginative role to prove they have another specialty. (MSE)

American science appears to be very successful, but the trend toward specialization and lack of interdisciplinary communication could undermine its ability to address the needs of society. Consequences of this trend (including educational implications) are discussed. Examples concerning health and economic policies are provided. (JN)

Forty-seven colleges and universities indicating environmental studies programs and curricula are listed. Names, addresses, degrees offered, major emphases, and costs/year are given. (BL)

Discusses the need of student music educators to pursue a wide range of musical skills as well as to achieve depth in a particular area of musical competence. (AN)

The narrow perspective on illness that specialization can produce can be forestalled through efforts to broaden understanding of illness by delineating ethical dimensions of relationships to patients, creating a view of the place of the professional in the historical evolution of medicine, and examining how technology influences medicine and…

Describes the construction of an interest inventory for nurses and the determination of its reliability and validity. This study concentrates on only the clinical areas. Data support the hypothesis that a higher level of occupational choice satisfaction can be predicted following interest-based specialization choices. (CT)

Describes children's librarianship as a beleaguered profession and defends the need to have professional librarians with the special knowledge and intuitive skill required for work with children. (AEA)

Reviews developments which contributed to the appearance of Adolescent Medicine; applies sociological concepts regarding (1) attitudes toward specialization in medicine and (2) segmentation in specializations; and discusses the implications of developments within adolescent medicine. (Author/DB)

Changes that have taken place in higher education contradict the basic principles of the classic university, destroy the substance of academic study, eliminate the distinction between school and university, and transform the university into a specialized institution. (Author/KC)