The option for specialization is explored to address expanding roles for rehabilitation counselors. Several important considerations are identified for Rehabilitation Counselor Education (RCE) program faculty opting for a specialization. Development of specialty tracks in psychiatric and developmental disabilities are offered as viable options for…

Even in its formative stages the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is drawing the attention and interest of scholars across academic disciplines and across types of educational institutions. Many sociologists are reflecting on how to shape scholarly efforts on teaching and learning within our discipline. This paper recounts the guidance…

Too much specialization and premature segregation of pupils into arts and science groups have long been seen as weaknesses in secondary education. This article describes a recent development in the examination of science candidates at 0-level. (Editor)

Questing requires that a student select a preferred area of specialization within a vocational field; then, he literally becomes an expert in that area if the quest is achieved. A quest can be achieved at three levels: familiarity, understanding, and skill competence or application. (Author)

In providing liberal education for undergraduates, American colleges and universities are increasingly threatened by the forces of incoherence, trendiness, and specialization. A liberal education should provide academic youth with the knowledge, perspectives, and ideals to rise above the values of the marketplace in doing the work of the world.…

The tradition of the university as a center for professional education needs to be effectively linked with a commitment to liberal learning. Examples to accomplish that linkage in law, medicine, and engineering illustrate a few of the advantages of the liberalizing of the professions. (JH)

Ways in which modern higher education has become complex are discussed, along with accommodations to cope with complexity. The growing diversity of tasks that modern higher education systems have undertaken has led to structural differentiation, which deconcentrates the overall system, and academic professionalism, within which academics…

By completing these activities, secondary students will learn about the concepts of specialization, comparative advantage, and interdependence as they pertain to their own lives, the lives of Arkansans, the lives of Americans, and the lives of people in other nations. Some examples of the activities follow. Students take inventory of foreign made…

Examines where role specialization exists among college teachers of education. Data are presented suggesting that while faculty members tend to specialize in each of the roles of teacher, researcher, administrator, and professional, they tend to find it difficult to generalize across several different roles. (Author)

Family and internal medicine were rated high by the groups studied. Neurological and colon-rectal surgery were rated low. Males gave higher ratings to surgical specialities, whereas females express stronger preferences for obstetrics and gynecology. (Author/KE)

This report is based on data obtained during the summer of 1969 from 45,000 fully qualified engineers, representing an estimated 308,00 members of the organized engineering profession. The following statements summarize the findings of this study. The largest number of degrees were reported in the fields of electrical and electronic, mechanical,…

A process of professionalization of the humanities has occurred as a result of the proliferation of specialities and subspecialities within each academic discipline. Suggestions are offered for re-establishing humanities as the basis for a common culture, for approaching questions which are fundamental to all disciplines. (SW)

This study solicited the perceptions of 329 high school coaches regarding: (1) the effects of sport specialization on high school athletes; and (2) the opinions of coaches toward coaches who promote specialization in high school. Results are offered. (MT)

The push toward scholarly understanding of the theoretical bases of human movement is taking attention away from what most physical educators actually do for a living, leaving graduates with no readily marketable skills. Advice to individual physical educators and the collective profession is given. (MT)

Twenty-eight endowed chairs in schools of nursing are listed by institution, with the date of the initial endowment, amount of the endowment, specific content area or focus, and the name of the chair included. (MSE)