Using a standardized questionnaire, descriptions of disciplinary childhood experiences were obtained from 11,660 university undergraduates over a 10-year period. No systematic changes in reports of physical discipline were found. Few young adults who reported severely punitive or injurious disciplinary events categorized those experiences as…

Curriculum integration, in theory and practice, transcends subject-area and disciplinary identifications without abandoning them. The goal is integrative activities that use knowledge (to pursue new meanings) without regard for subject or discipline lines. As boundaries disappear, curriculum integration may engage knowledge not easily ascribed to…

Used behavioral observation and maternal reports to examine the relationship of fearfulness/anxiety, attachment security, and maternal discipline with internalization in 103 toddlers. For relatively fearful/anxious children, gentle maternal discipline that deemphasized power predicted internalization. For relatively fearless children, security of…

Project learning, with community and school staff assistance, helped a fifth-grade class transform the school lunchroom and their own behavior. A $2,500 Alcoa grant spearheaded an Italian restaurant project. Children served on five committees: public relations and advertising, management, art and design, planning and budgeting, and research. The…

According to responses from 117 of 277 business school deans, they favored keeping business communication courses in their schools when offered by tenured faculty in a strong unit; otherwise they favored transfer to another school. Scholarly productivity of faculty influenced the favorable decision. (SK)

Public administration is at risk of losing its theoretical distinctiveness based on public law, leaving it vulnerable to advocates of the entrepreneurial management model. Administrative principles rooted in law can accommodate useful contemporary management concepts without compromising accountable public sector management. (SK)

Using criteria to determine whether a discipline is a science, the author defines andragogy as a technological discipline that applies principles discovered by the sciences of adult education--educational psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology. He suggests that andragogy could become the general science of adult education by studying…

Discusses the importance of establishing early with a new class the routines and associated rules that the teacher wants to use. Discusses attending to cultural differences, and the consequences of inadequately established routines. (SR)

A scholarship of teaching is recommended, requiring precise observation, the recording of information, and the systematic pursuit of understanding teaching as an intellectual activity. This article outlines the kind of scholarship needed and ways to promote such scholarship through thinking, talking, and sharing views about teaching. (DB)

Examines the structure of the discipline of communication using the frequency of joint memberships in the International Communication Association's divisions and interest groups. Finds that the structure is more complex than previously suggested by bibliometric research. (SR)

Discusses the development of religious studies as an academic discipline. Examines the work of leading thinkers in the field, including anthropologists Sir James Fraser and Edward Burnett Taylor, sociologist Max Weber, and psychologist Erik Erikson. Identifies some of the many reference works that deal with religious studies. (SG)

Discusses the "School Inspectorate of Order," a student-led disciplinary organization that arose at a school in the northern Russian city of Noril'sk. Explains that the group helped the school administration to maintain order. Describes public reactions to the group, the risk of totalitarian rule, the experiences of some student members,…

A study used multiple regression analysis to evaluate publisher pricing practices for a random sample of 439 scholarly journals. Holding cost factors constant, it was found that prices to United States college libraries are significantly higher for physical science journals and for those from commercial publishers, especially from Europe.…

Through the Safe Schools project, initiated by the Education Development Center, Inc., and funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, two urban middle schools in the northeast became safer, more effective places of learning over three-year period. This article describes the process. (MLH)

Investigates academic course areas that public relations executives foresee as important to the practice of public relations in the 1990s. Finds major emphasis on areas traditionally outside public relations education. (SR)