For the American woman, educated and trained in the speech profession, marriage and motherhood induce a shock for which she is unprepared. Society still expects the main responsibility of child rearing to be that of the mother, while the speech profession, which has prepared all students to be teachers and scholars, is uncooperative in providing…

The seminar which these proceedings report was the eighth international gathering to be convened by the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP) since the establishment of the Special Committee on Adult Education in 1959. The documents reproduced in these proceedings reflect both the history of the Adult Education…

This paper traces the development of professionalism in teacher education. While examining the history of education in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present, the author considers the effects of the industrial revolution and lowered standards during the teacher shortage of the 1950s. Current issues in professionalism…

The authors investigate how working mothers manage children and domestic responsibility. Comparing 64 women in professional jobs with 46 women in clerical jobs, they found that the great majority of both sets of women were satisfied with their childcare arrangements and performed most of the domestic tasks with no help. (Author/RM)

Attempts to quantify what proportion of the salary difference between men and women in chemistry might be attributed to differencies in degree level, years of work experience, employer category, and work function. (MLH)

Discussed are the future management responsibilities facing professional engineers and the impact technology and computer data analysis will have on management decisions. (CS)

Discussed is the increasing importance of interpersonal communication skills and approaches which the engineering manager can take to meet the needs of the changing environment. (CS)

Definitions of social work that describe what social workers do often become unwieldy because social workers do so many different things. Here is a concise definition built around the common goals that unify the profession's diverse fields and specialties and make them social work. (Author)

The article discusses theoretical and practical considerations for planning evaluation of postemployment training of handicapped professionals who are undergoing rehabilitation. (Author)

Within the context of a discussion of the production and utilization of knowledge in educational administration, the author examines the desirable state of affairs in the field of educational administration as an applied professional field, the present case in the field, and the implications of these conditions for future action. (Author/IRT)

The three cases discussed involve the hiring of an engineer who had committed a crime and served a prison term, the formation of an engineering firm, between a professional engineer and a non-professional engineer, and a conflict of interests case. (BB)

Reports on a National Science Foundation (NSF) study which revealed that declines in employment of scientists and engineers between 1970 and 1975 were directly related to industry research and development spending during the period. (SL)

The perks, Chinese Acrobats, and occasionally truth and beauty in the life of a V.P...A Student Affairs Vice President takes a humorous look at his job. (Author)

The architectural profession is examined in terms of definitions and dimensions of professionalism and then compared with other highly professionalized occupations. Theoretical and empirical indicators are discussed, and problems of defining explicit criteria for "qualified" schools, students, and practitioners are addressed. (LBH)

Notes that in many ways the makeup of today's Chinese immigrants tends toward the extremes. At one end they are highly educated, at the other, they are the beneficiaries of the nonquota provisions of the immigration law. (Author/AM)