Suggests that counselors of all types need an understanding of and an ability to work with issues described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Explains that the traditional approach to the DSM-IV tends to locate the problem in the client, whereas the developmental approach focuses on the client in social and historical…

After a yearlong first-grade teaching assignment, a professor of literacy studies shares insights about doing instruction versus lecturing about it. Explores scientific knowledge versus practical wisdom, tyranny of method versus centrality of personal relationships, visible versus invisible theories, reduction/simplicity versus complexity, and the…

The author reflects on how she will apply to her own middle-school classroom what she has learned from her many years of work with the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA). Looks specifically at five important cross-cutting findings from CELA. (SR)

Describes the demands on the student of education and anthropology posed by the U. S. graduate education system. Points out that the best and most insightful fieldwork comes from the contrast between what was observed and described in the past and what the student currently encounters. (SLD)

Describes an ethics case conference, examining its structure and the major topics addressed including, competency, informed consent, placement decisions, right to die issues, ageist biases, hospitalization, quality of life, and entitlement issues. Concludes that the care of older patients, the education of students and trainees interested in aging…

Both the 1988 and 1999 editions of "Handbook of Research on Educational Administration" suggest that continuing dialogue about educational administration scholarship is warranted as conditions in schooling and society change. Handbook and "EAQ" editors asked several expert researchers to write articles about one or more…

This article notes the enthusiastic reception received by auditory integration training (AIT) for children with a wide variety of disorders including autism but raises concerns about this alternative treatment practice. It offers reasons for cautious evaluation of AIT prior to clinical implementation and summarizes current research findings. (DB)

Discusses five major discrepancies in speech and language pathology practices and offers suggestions for reconciling them. Discrepancies include the separation of clinicians and scientists, the definition of language, the role of theory in intervention, the approach as it relates to product for language intervention, and the meaning of best…

High-performance, high-poverty schools are distinguished from other high-poverty schools by the strength of their school-level and district leadership, described as goal-oriented and ethical; their commitment to building a learning community, characterized by inclusion, collegiality, and collaboration; and their focus on putting research on how…

Describes two significant theoretical approaches to service learning (philanthropic and civil) so that professors are aware of two different impulses that inform service learning. In addition, addresses three critical concerns about service learning: it takes too much time and too many resources, it should not be required, and it should be…

This article describes the usefulness of a scientific approach to improving knowledge and practice in special education. Of four approaches to knowledge (superstition, folklore, craft, and science), craft and science are supported and implications for special education drawn including the need to bridge the gulf between research knowledge and…

Explores the ways in which mailing list technology help constitute the specific community of the Writing Center. Attempts to contribute to the practical and theoretical needs of writing centers. Concludes that understanding how these virtual spaces function as a significant part of the rhetorical context of writing centers will provide insight…

Focuses on the ways in which a particular group of English-as-a-Second-Language teachers conceptualized their classroom practice. Data reveal a pattern in the links that the teachers made between principles and practices. (Author/VWL)

Interviews with facilitators of eight Outward Bound Belgium programs examined the tacit knowledge that guides their program facilitation. Findings focus on experiential learning as a process of developing awareness of one's own behaviors, group development as a condition for learning, and program facilitation as enactment of a theory of relational…

Examines the tension between the particular and the general in art therapy and makes a case that the art therapist's concern with particularity does not obviate the need for research in the field. Consideration is given to two frequent stumbling blocks for beginning researchers: the use of statistics and the possibility of obtaining negative…