Discusses the status of speech communication as an academic discipline in light of Heckhausen's seven disciplinary criteria and in terms of three areas of growth and vitality characteristic of speech communication. Suggests additional criteria which might affect the discipline's future survival. (JMF)

Contrasts what is taught by child language theorists and the traditional speech communication educators and suggests a new curricula which will better prepare children as competent communicators. Outlines needs and methods of disseminating new information so that it will be incorporated into the language arts curricula. (JMF)

Demonstrates the importance of the speech communication discipline in corporate advocacy or issue management. Characterizes an emerging field that reflects an ancient tradition of issue analysis; shows how effective advocates are trained through speech communication curricula; and suggests additional areas of help in educating effective issue…

The oral reprimand is seen as the most important step in a corrective discipline procedure. Steps of disciplinary counseling include: always counsel in a private place; identify the problem; identify the desired behavior; define the consequences; get commitment from employee; identify session as oral reprimand; and monitor and follow up.(MLW)

The San Antonio Teachers Council (SATC) has prepared a manual on classroom discipline that helps teachers and parents to understand and guide student behavior. SATC has written other brochures and newsletters and has also sponsored programs for parents and teachers. (JD)

In 1977 approximately 170 education students in Illinois were surveyed about specific facts relating to the legal aspects of teaching and the structure of the state's educational system. Responses indicated that these prospective teachers were not very knowledgeable about areas of school law directly affecting them. Most desired coursework. (SJL)

The relationship between the decline of value-centered education in the 1960s and 1970s and the decline of academic standards is discussed. The question of the moral dimensions of learning and how values and the transfer of knowledge are irrevocably linked are explored. (Author/MLW)

While many classroom problems can be solved by competent and able teachers, all discipline problems cannot be solved by teachers. It is possible to solve problems of discipline by involving the local community in making positive and needed changes. (JN)

This study examined how a group of kindergartners anticipated and actually experienced school. Interviewed in July, before starting kindergarten, then again in April, the children were asked to describe their own and the teacher's role, activities they engaged in, and what rules or constraints on child behavior existed. (Author/SJL)

Researchers observed one urban and one suburban junior high classroom, recording misbehavior incidents, teacher's response, and student's reaction to teacher's control technique. Two categories emerged for student misbehaviors (coping behaviors and challenging behaviors) and one category for teacher responses (managing behaviors). Within each…

The repercussions of a controversy between the administration and student newspaper staff at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) included the loss of scholarships. (RL)

The essay discusses efforts carried out by a community action agency to examine the issues of school discipline and student suspensions during the desegregation of the Milwaukee Public Schools. (Author/RLV)

The article explores two types of grievance systems widely utilized in the American public school system: code grievance systems and alternative structures. (RLV)

The authors trace and critique various thrusts operative in British educational sociology since its beginnings in the 1950s: structural functionalism, school-level analysis, the interactionalist "New Directions" approach, and the Neo-Marxist perspective. They also comment on the place of educational sociology in teacher training. (SJL)