This article presents a quantitative study on attitudes toward the usage of Information Technology related tools and applications. The study was conducted at a private university, Turkey, with 97 female and 113 male students involved as participants. They were each presented with a questionnaire to relate their attitudes toward IT and after…

This article describes the research design of, and reports selected findings from, a scoping study aimed at examining current and planned applications of 3D immersive virtual worlds at higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand. The scoping study is the first of its kind in the region, intended to parallel and complement a…

The paper's goal is to propose a conceptual framework, a "knowledge infrastructure," demonstrating that social gerontology is at the point of becoming a distinct academic discipline. The various phases of gerontological development that have led to the current stage are outlined. The components of the framework are arranged vertically by three…

This study was conducted in response to several recent incidents in which teachers and student teachers were reprimanded for content they placed on the Internet. This study examined the Facebook postings of preservice elementary teachers to determine the extent to which these postings are congruent with expected dispositions. Profiles were…

Discipline is a major problem in many schools and an important issue to parents and educators alike. Discipline is commonly defined as negative reinforcement--punishment--instead of leadership and good teaching. Its definition should be expanded to relate it to the overall purposes of education. Discipline policy should be integrated with…

This article addresses the possible causes of discipline problems in the classroom. (MM)

The results of the data revealed a trend toward agreement between teacher and students as to the perception of the seriousness of behavioral acts, yet a discrepancy between the two groups as to appropriate treatment of behavioral problems. Teachers and students need to exchange ideas and experiences regarding behavioral problems. (Author)

This study builds on past research on normative publication practices in the communication discipline by exploring rates of contribution to the discipline's literature as represented in the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship's ComAbstracts database. The ComAbstracts database, spanning 90 years and more than 46,000 publications,…

In this commentary, the author raises two critical aspects not adequately addressed in John Radford's (2008) wide ranging article on the teaching of psychology in higher education. The first aspect is the relevance of boundaries. The second aspect is the political context(s). These two issues, though artificially dissociated for current purposes,…

In this article, the author comments on John Radford's article "Psychology in its place," which makes some keen observations around the current status of psychology education. The author's response focuses on undergraduate psychology education and the "responsible autonomy" of psychology educators. The author, as administrator,…

This article places responses received from an open-ended survey of graduate students and faculty in dialogue with published commentary on the scope of composition studies as a discipline to explore three interrelated disciplinary dilemmas: the "pedagogical imperative," the "theory-practice split," and the increasingly complicated relationship…

This article examines the controversial notion of the role and value of the humanities in the contemporary university. It provides a review of the history of the emergence of the humanities in the European universities, arguing that any attempt to justify the presence of the humanities in the modern university in instrumental terms is futile.…

The major victory of professors of literature in the last half-century--the Great March from the New Criticism through structuralism, deconstruction, Foucauldianism, and multiculturalism--has been the invention and codification of a professionalized study of literature. They have made themselves into a priestly caste: To understand literature,…

Sometimes a principal just has to get out of the office. A walk around the building might provide an escape from the pace of a hectic day, a chance to clear the head and perhaps allow a new perspective on a seemingly monumental school-related challenge to emerge. Wherever the principal walks, he or she is able to identify things that need…