To justify expenditures for art programs, art teachers should stop using platitudes about the by-products of art education, such as fun and self-expression. They should present art as a serious intellectual discipline which has content of value for students. (SJL)

Describes a seminar on teaching techniques for graduate students and college faculty in terms of course design, teaching assumptions, content, format, and evaluation techniques. Initially designed for psychology graduates, the course recently has included participants from 11 other disciplines. The seminar stresses broad topic coverage, teaching…

An exploratory study addressed two problems: (1) Can basic concepts or clusters of issues and problems be identified in the field of psychology as it is currently taught to undergraduates? (2) What influences a teacher's selection and coverage of specific items? (Author/AV)

The voting pattern of high-paradigm faculty (chemistry, physics, mathematics, and engineering) was compared to low-paradigm faculty (sociology, political science, history, and education) concerning a controversial campus issue to liberalize curriculum choices for students. High-paradigm faculty were not willing to grant students more latitude to…

Surveys literature related to the study and teaching of anthropology and its component subfields. Concludes that anthropology began to emerge as a distinct discipline in the last half of the nineteenth century. The debate on the nature of anthropology continued well into the early decades of this century, while the formal teaching of anthropology…

A questionnaire was used to determine the effect on job satisfaction of the similarity in philosophic view between faculty members and their department chairperson in four-year institutions in the Midwest. No relationship was found. (Author/LBH)

Three models of faculty organization for teaching behavioral science in medical schools are reviewed and compared with regard to their effects on curricular structure and content. Significant variations on existing models are described in the context of a behavioral science curriculum in a new medical college. (Author/LBH)

A study that examined biology and political science to identify links among the subfields in each discipline was based on interviews with college faculty and reviews of current literature. The findings suggest that there are systematic links and that specialization is more benign than its image. (Author/MLW)

Examines parents' perceptions of their children's education. Concludes that parents deemphasize the importance of standardized test scores and grades on report cards, oppose ability grouping, and consider reading, math, grammar, spelling, and science to be the most important subjects. (SRT)

English studies, especially at the graduate level, have depended on coverage of an agreed-upon group of literary works, but new scholarly approaches have led some scholars to change that group, calling into question some basic tenets of graduate education in English and suggesting a need for new directions. (MSE)

A table showing the results of the Survey of Earned Doctorates by the National Research Council is presented, with degree fields broken down by such variables as time to degree, sex, citizenship, marital status, planned postdoctoral study or employment. (MLW)

A study of the relationship between major, socioeconomic status, and gender in the undergraduate achievement of college students in England and Wales is reported, and the implications for educational policy-making and research on group differences are discussed. (Author/MSE)

The 1976 UNESCO International Standard Classification of Education is a step forward in describing and understanding the structure of higher education systems and their links with national economies, but some problems of classification, documentation, and standardization remain to be solved. (MSE)

Management, which generates wealth, determines the distribution of wealth, and helps control the direction and accessibility of careers in most developed countries, is a subject worthy of the humanities, and deserves to be pursued more aggressively as a point of contact among disciplines. (MSE)

Examines research methods used in empirical research reported in "Rural Sociology" from 1936-1985. Identifies trends including movement away from descriptive analyses of social phenomena toward quantitative models, increased methodological homogeneity, and focus on individuals instead of social structures and processes. Explains…