Examines potential relationships to explore between counseling and philosophy. Posits that philosophy already provides the ground on which counseling stands, and, therefore, if counseling is to strengthen its foundations, it needs to examine where it currently locates itself intellectually, ethically, and culturally. (Contains 11 references.) (GCP)

Summarizes the key questions and objections that have been raised about a model of "authentic technology" (proposed in two previous articles) and the supporting suggestions for implementing it. Explains why authentic technology is the lynchpin between theory and practice, between knowing and doing. Provides a brief summary of the…

Examines the implications of Ernest Boyer's (1990) concept of the "scholarship of application" for student affairs. Addresses the meaning of the scholarship of application, its importance for student affairs, and constraints and challenges that must be overcome to embrace the scholarship of application. (Contains 38 references.) (GCP)

Presents a response to Schroeder et. al's "The Scholarship of Application in Student Affairs" (this issue). Extends the dialogue of the original article by asserting the need for scholar-practitioners, and the values of student affairs to the higher education mission. (GCP)

Presents a response to "Uniting Scholarship and Communities of Practice in Student Affairs" (this issue). Proposes that scholarship can be integrated into the field of student affairs without disrupting practice. (GCP)

This article seeks to demonstrate a particular application of Foucault's philosophical approach to a particular issue in education: that of personal autonomy. The paper surveys and extends the approach taken by James Marshall in his book "Michel Foucault: Personal Autonomy and Education." After surveying Marshall's writing on the issue I extend…

The premise of this paper is that the acknowledged gap between research and practice is primarily a gap between two sharply contrasting kinds of knowledge. The nature of this contrast is described and it is suggested that these two kinds of knowledge are at the opposite ends of a spectrum of kinds of knowledge related to classroom teaching and…

This article examines the use of research by adult education practitioners both empirically and theoretically. It is suggested that arguments for making research more relevant to practice must be treated with caution and that the relationship between research and practice is inherently loose. Implications for researchers and practitioners are…

In this article, the author shares the lessons she learned from the theories and practices of Louise Rosenblatt with respect to teaching reading to young people. According to Rosenblatt, "Every reading act is an event, or a transaction involving a particular reader and a particular pattern of signs, a text, and occurring at a particular time in a…

Two problem areas which both concern the question of music pedagogy as a field of theory and research are addressed in this paper. The first one concerns the question of the normative and prescriptive versus the descriptive and analytical aspects of music pedagogy. The second is about the theory of and the criteria for the selection of content in…

In this article, the author, W. Ann Stokes, responds to Estelle Jorgensen's paper contrasting four different concepts of the relationship between theory and practice, and pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of each. Each approach introduces insights that the others have missed, but is not sufficient in itself to explain all the…

Action research can be a valuable resource for strengthening the link between theory and practice in school counseling. Action research emphasizes practitioner action for change in conjunction with rigorous reflection on practice and careful gathering and analysis of data. This article presents background information on action research as well as…

This article provides an account of a "neo-Aristotelian" conception of practice. It introduces this account through an analysis of internal and external goods of practices. It then delineates a crucial distinction between practical and technical rationality and grounds this distinction in an analysis of the priority of "material" over "method" in…

Understanding how to evaluate a theory, whether that theory is a self-constructed hunch or a scholar's formal set of propositions, is a vital foundation needed by students as they apply communication theories to their everyday lives. In many communication theory courses, the criteria for theory evaluation are introduced early in the semester. As a…

Fads are a serious problem in education. Fads are destructive because they are quickly abandoned, and therefore, some promising innovations are dismissed before they have been given a fair trial. Innovations become fads partly because there is a tendency for teachers and policy-makers to ignore educational research. Then too, an innovation may…