Describes a longitudinal study of positive first-order efficiency effects of video teleconferencing technology. Finds in which ways video teleconferencing is equal or superior to face-to-face meetings, and in which ways it is less effective. Points out that in video teleconferencing, it is more common to have a more negative impression of the…

Describes the author's three-month career as a student teacher of social studies and art in an upstate New York high school. As his stint progresses, he realizes he cannot continue to rely on his old ways of thinking and functioning. He learns to handle a cooperating teacher's unrealistic expectations and to engage students with audiovisuals and…

The paucity of historical research in supervision can be attributed to marginalization of historical inquiry, lack of clarity about supervisory duties, a positivistic model of social research, and unfavorable images of supervision and supervisors. Research needs include accounts of early 20th-century practicing supervisors, educational biographies…

Presents an interview with Nam June Paik, a seminal figure in video art, who candidly discusses his working processes and values. Offers his comments on such diverse problems as technology, cost, collaboration, MTV, and the artist's ego. Discusses also the values and the artists associated with the artistic movement Fluxus. (SR)

Discusses interrelations between painting and video art. Argues that once the surface of the painting is thought of in relation to the membrane of the eye as if the painting's surface were part of the eye itself, the painting's surface would have to be thought of as a membrane of visible excitation that is hard to separate from vision. (SR)

Discusses two related topics affecting film studies as an institution: questions concerning certain paradigms of contemporary theory (poststructuralism in particular) as they relate to politics; and to a greater extent, the relationship of this latter issue to the institutionalization of film studies in the academy. (SR)

School administrators' decisions to examine available research depends on a problem's magnitude, the match between problem and solution, and evaluation considerations. Likely sources of good educational practices are research syntheses, current implementation research, and student learning research from developers or publishers. Administrators…

Two superintendents explain how they use educational research. The Jericho (New York) Union Free School District used research to help reopen a school and change a junior high to a middle school. The Orange County (Virginia) Public Schools superintendent feels that certain areas of practice (staff development, grading, grouping, and evaluation)…

Compared to 2 earlier studies in which fewer than 5% of subjects had nursing master's degrees, a study in which 49% of 157 were master's-prepared nurses found the overall extent of dissemination and use of research findings was similar. However, master's-prepared nurses made more use of research findings than bachelor's-degree nurses. (SK)

Discussion of games and game-like exercises developed by the author at the University of Michigan focuses on the relationship between theory and practice in education. Highlights include simulation games, metaphoric games, literal games, and puzzle-based games. (LRW)

Addresses (1) how to characterize and organize Spanish verb morphology within Natural Generative Grammar, and (2) how such an organization leads to implications for second-language pedagogy, specifically, of verb classification according to a thematic-athematic distinction. (46 references) (GLR)

Discusses the potential usefulness of German critical social theorist Jurgen Habermas' theoretical framework for writing teachers to use as an aid to reflecting deeply about what they practice. (SR)

This commentary on the six research articles in this issue focuses on (1) the definition of higher order thinking skills; (2) the importance of studying higher order thinking; and (3) the development of intervention programs to improve individuals' critical thinking skills. (BC)

Responds to previous article's proposal to integrate first- and second-order therapies. Notes focus on deliberate ways to promote respectful stance in therapy. Considers limitations of intentional efforts and relationship of conscious mind to other natural orders of mind in living world. Suggests that therapist's deliberate efforts must be…

A conference commemorating the 400th anniversary of Comenius's birth was held in Prague in March 1992. The Czech scholar's basic premise was the panharmony of the universe (among nature, humankind, and the divine world). He integrated the elements of methodological, philosophical, theological, political, and social reform by stressing their…