The problems that educational philosophers face in communicating with: (1) school of education faculty; (2) specialists in other areas of philosophy; and (3) educators and laymen involved in the schools are discussed. Four levels of discourse are proposed; the importance of tailoring abstraction level to audience needs is stressed. (PP)

Proposes that a family systems perspective of corporal punishment can cast the behavior in a more comprehensible light and offer some fruitful directions for educational or therapeutic help. Some case examples and different kinds of interventions are presented. (Author)

Discusses whether notice and a hearing are required when a student is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, from a New York vocational school to another school. Proposes amending the law to expressly require the same due process protection for disciplinary lateral transfers as is required for student suspensions. (Author/MLF)

Advances a theoretical perspective for analyzing education and instructional technology as disciplines using the science of semiotics as a framework for identifying the components, relationships among components, and meanings of components in educational systems. A 30-item reference list accompanies the text. (Author/JL)

Surveyed student teachers who recorded the degree of difficulty of (N=40) problems and their opinions concerning their preparation to meet these problems. Results indicated the greatest difficulty experienced was in discipline, and the perceived lack of preparation was greatest in adjustment to work activities and resource-related problems.…

Responses from teachers, subject coordinators and school administrators in 23 Queensland state high schools were analyzed to ascertain the perceived importance of subject coordinators to teacher satisfaction, teacher dissatisfaction, and the learning of students in classrooms. (Author/MLW)

An inductive analysis of studies on discipline reveal four characteristics of effective classroom management. Preservice teachers should be able to: (1) develop a workable set of rules; (2) respond consistently to inappropriate behavior; (3) structure activities to minimize disruption; and (4) respond to, but not denigrate, the disruptive student.…

Research shows that attitudes of 64 elementary education student teachers toward teaching changed in a negative direction as a result of their student teaching experiences. (CJ)

Describes types of physical punishment used in schools; reasons given for the punishment; and responses by students, parents, and the community. Says that parents who object to corporal punishment of their children receive better redress from the school board or administration than from the courts. (Author/GC)

Discusses the problem of fundamentalist Chiristian day care facilities and schools that mete out corporal punishment to young children and justify it with Biblical passages and Christian doctrine. (GC)

Addresses corporal punishment in schools as a policy issue, regarding every manifestation as either abusive or potentially so. Discusses the history of physical punishment in schools, reviews current sentiment toward its use, considers policies in other countries, and examines disciplinary alternatives and child abuse prevention methods.…

Well-drafted codes of discipline can help to eliminate the ambiguity and arbitrariness that often have been associated with school discipline. Discipline codes should be characterized by fairness, fact-finding provisions, completeness of information, frankness, flexibility, informality, firmness, concern with disciplinary suitability,…

Describes a research project which examined the perceptions of junior college instructors toward the sociology profession. Questionnaires were sent to 72 institutions in the United States. Results indicate that the discipline of sociology is not meeting the needs of instructors who are acutely aware of their professional loneliness. (RM)

Studied student, school, and staff characteristics to determine factors related to the disproportionate numbers of male and Black students suspended or expelled from school. School practices and conditions said to mediate the problem are identified. (Author/MW)

Reviews the National Institute of Education's 1978 study of school crime. Offers several social trends as possible causes for recent increases in school crime. Suggests methods for reducing violence in the schools. (BE)