Survey of 185 Washington rural mental health center professionals reveals moderately high levels of job/lifestyle satisfaction and higher levels of readiness for rural life/work among those taking rural courses/practicum during their educational experience. Study supports concept of anticipatory socialization correlating with higher levels of…

Outlines structure of the library and information workforce in the United Kingdom, identifies its component parts, and traces developments since 1960 with emphasis on the expansion and decline of established employment markets, emerging markets, and balance between supply and demand of professionals. Future developments are predicted based on…

A model of professionalization based largely on the power view is presented. As a test of a portion of the model, professional power is defined in terms of two dimensions of attitudinal autonomy. Autonomy from client and autonomy from employing organization are studied in a sample of 1,000 students representing eight different occupations.…

The origin and development of the allied health profession in the American health care system and in the American higher education system is explored, with particular attention to implications for academic administrators. (Author/MLW)

Proposes that technical writing teachers ask their students to analyze the ethos--the revelation of a writer's character through the rhetorical choices a writer makes--of the profession they are preparing to enter. Provides examples of such analysis. (RL)

Motivation for personnel in research and development in industry is discussed. Seven precepts of motivation, interaction of satisfaction with motivation, influence of academic conditioning, the industrial environment, predictable and unpredictable motivators, and three motivational steps are described. (MLW)

This report analyzes the relationship between education and labor force activity in March 1976 and examines the trends in educational attainment over the last 10 years and in the occupations of college graduates. (TA)

A study examining Hispanic underrepresentation in managerial and professional occupations used Public Use Microdata Samples of census data. Findings indicated a 6 percent chance of Hispanics working as managers/professionals, versus a 32 percent chance for non-Hispanic Whites. Hispanics who were citizens, older, educated, married, and fluent in…

Discusses whether linguistics can meet the challenge of accounting to the general public for the practices and beliefs of lawyers and other professionals. The article emphasizes that members of the professions, such as lawyers, doctors, and psychiatrists, are judged by their interaction with processes having real world outcomes, e.g., trials and…

Considers higher education and professional learning and describes a Web-based course focusing on project management skills, including collaboration. Discusses professional knowledge; self-directed learning; social processes of professional learning; integration of learning and assessment; social support for professional skills; cognitive support…

A teacher describes a core course, "The Educating Profession," of the University of Rochester's graduate education program. Designed to teach analytical theories of professionalization and historical background of professions, it examines twentieth-century scholarship, nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, nineteenth-century…

Discussion of differences in skills and abilities needed for instructional designers in academic versus business settings focuses on a survey of Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and National Society for Performance and Instruction (NSPI) members. Employment criteria and data upon which these criteria are judged are…

Summarizes results of a study offering both retrospective and prospective views of supervision, based on graduate students' definitions of supervision. Four emergent themes included the domains of supervision, supervisory tasks, supervisory relationships, and supervisor traits. Findings suggest that aspiring supervisors confuse administration with…

Reviews the social impact of Burton J. Bledstein's 1976 book, "The Culture of Professionalism," on public attitudes about the social role of universities. Asserts that Bledstein's major contribution was to raise critical questions about the functions of the modern university and the relationship between knowledge and power. (CFR)

Addresses the motivations underlying faculty advocacy of the "information" model for library and information science (LIS) education. Proposes an intensified interest in and support of all aspects of LIS education by the many worlds of LIS practice and suggests that a cultural model of LIS better positions both the "library" and "information"…