Courses in cataloging nonbook media should include diverse cataloging codes and a wide variety of media. Related areas of concern include the objectives of an access system for nonbook media and the means by which these objectives are achievable. Films are used to illustrate this approach. (Author/MBR)

A model entitled The Technological Base, which includes a set of assumptions, a set of defined terms, and a set of statements of the relationships among the elements, is presented as an example of the type of theoretical product needed to provide conceptual frameworks necessary for purposeful teaching and meaningful research. (EA)

Industrial arts education obviously will be affected by the Vocational Education Act Amendments of 1976, the emphasis on career education, and the national change to the metric system of measurement, but most important, in this author's view is that industrial arts will perservere. (Editor/JT)

Two school administrators and two business people share their points of view on the relationship between schools and business. (Author)

Uses an article from a previous issue as a basis for a discussion of ethnic studies programs. (IRT)

Essay addresses three questions: What purposes should schools serve and who should determine those purposes? Who should set performance goals for schools? Does school choice comport schooling mission to serve the public interest? Argues for need to be more disciplined and explicit in determining the public interest that schools serve and how that…

Works of over 200 authors were examined using dialectical inquiry and phenomenological reflection, revealing six literacy themes (cognitive performance, cultural identity, knowledgeability, language communication, reading and writing, and utility) and seven technology themes (ambiance, artefact, evolution, invention, knowledge, praxis, and…

Argues that the further theatre studies moves away from its roots in the art and the business, the less valuable it is as an academic subject. Proposes that it is precisely in the historic tension between theatre departments and universities that theatre departments can best clarify their existence and goals. (PM)

Contends that process drama techniques can be beneficial for novice actors rehearsing a play set in a world vastly different from their own. Notes that the techniques can be designed as part of the rehearsal process. Provides examples of using process drama in this way, and notes that these activities are very structured, much as a play is…

Discusses student motivation as an academic enabler for school success. Includes a discussion of four key components of student motivation including academic self-efficacy, attributions, intrinsic motivation, and achievement goals. Research on each of these four components is described, and research relating these four components to academic…

Analyzed 50 work samples produced by student teachers to determine the efficiency of Teacher Work Sample Methodology in moving state and national standards into the classroom and the extent to which such methodology promotes alignment of standards, content, instruction, and assessment. The majority of work samples showed weak alignment or no…

Presents the comments of eight teachers addressing the issue of encouraging promising students to consider teaching as a profession. (KEH)

Gov. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia responds to questions about his austerity program, coeducation at Virginia Military Institute, the role of Black colleges, South African divestiture, his political plans, and his personal views on education. (DM)

Explores Sartre's views of education as expressed in his work, "A Plea for Intellectuals." Notes that Sartre believed that capitalist educational systems attempt to instill bourgeois humanism and allow industry to control the university. Argues that writing instructors must promote social change and must encourage students to transcend…