One purpose of education is to produce well-integrated individuals. (CK)

Lauda debates the issues raised by Swanson in a previous article (EJ 257 477), which he believes present a misconception of technology education and its methods of inquiry. Lauda argues that the study of technology is a valid discipline base in today's technological culture. (SK)

Provides teachers with a chance to select the "most severe discipline problems" from among a set of 10 illustrations. Points out the areas of tolerance and intolerance teachers' choices might reflect. (Author/RH)

An examination of 12 widely held and attractive but insidious beliefs about the art of managing classroom behavior. (Author)

Points out tips from "The Prince" that are in tune with the new pedagogical conservatism. (Author/IRT)

Describes the growth of science as a twofold process: (1) the fragmentation of formal disciplines; and (2) a recombination of the specialties resulting from this fragmentation. Discusses the division of disciplines into specialized subfields that has led to the development of hybrid specialties, and maintains that the concept of hybridization is…

This project looks at the body of literature related to visual communication and the categories that emerge from the writings to develop a taxonomy of topics and some sense of the location of the most important, or at least the most frequently written about, areas of study. (Author/LRW)

Describes results of a content analysis of 1160 library and information science (LIS) articles published between 1993 and 1998 to examine the use of theory in LIS research. Findings imply that differences exist in the use of theory in LIS that are associated with the broad disciplinary content of the research. (Author/LRW)

The author travels 400 years into a future boasting honored teachers and cherished children, but lacking butterflies (extinct because of 20th century pesticide residues). The big advance, besides miniaturized solar collectors, is people's inability to tell lies. Perceptions are trusted, and emotions are accurately read. Also, children are taught…

Suggests that highest ideal of research seems to be truthfulness to the phenomenon under study. This philosophical examination looks at whether it is possible to attach these claims to professionalized and institutionalized research methods of academic disciplines, or if goals attainable through such means are of a completely different, neglected,…

Responds to a critique in this issue (itself a critique of earlier articles in this journal). Argues that to view business communication as a subarea of the bounded field of communication limits its future growth and is contrary to establishing the discipline as a legitimate field within academia. (SR)

The Blackwell Companion and Blackwell Guide to the philosophy of education, edited respectively by Randall Curren and by Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith and Paul Standish, are potentially field-defining volumes. The present essay moves back and forth between the two books to assess the overall impression they provide of the "state of the…

The notion that one can argue history "versus" social studies requires that one commit to a troublesome dichotomy resulting in a partitioning of the two subjects into separate entities. As practiced in the schools, the courses consistently overlap. In fact, the commonalities are so extensive that often the terms social studies and history are used…

This article is concerned with the medium-term effects on management structures and styles following a period in the disciplinary regime of Special Measures, a regime of intensive inspection applied to a school which is deemed as "failing". In it I discuss the techniques used by the management of one school to continue the school's improvement…