Provides a link between marketing theory and application in helping students use what is taught to attain employment goals. Presents proposals from marketing concepts, as well as practical ways to encourage students to see themselves as assets and market themselves accordingly. (Author/JOW)

Comments on Mark Blum's essay on the history of the interpretation of history. Applauds Blum's attempt but draws out problems associated with his argument's grounding in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and John Toews. Concludes by discussing a new historicism and a need for a postmodern turn in historical interpretation. (DSK)

All evaluators should know evaluation theory because it is central to their professional identity. It defines "who they are." Every profession needs a unique knowledge base, and for evaluators, evaluation theory is that knowledge base. (Author/SLD)

A database of about 300 published evaluations is used to compare some of the lessons learned in recent practice to some of the traditional theoretical precepts of evaluation. Evaluation practice should recognize its sources in politics as it keeps its independence. Changes to help bring this about are recommended. (SLD)

Inclusive evaluation is intended to emphasize a participatory, collaborative approach to evaluation. This panel considered what inclusive evaluation approaches look like in current practice and how to implement these approaches in practice successfully. The importance of respecting stakeholders is emphasized. (SLD)

A longitudinal study of nursing students showed that without sponsorship by clinical staff students found it difficult to participate and learn. The strategy of scaffolding, building on Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, enables recognition of learning needs and the relationship between theory and practice. (SK)

Summarizes eight other articles on literary theory and education, examining the theory-practice relationship as it pertains to English literature instruction and questioning traditional views about the divide between theory and practice. Discusses how working the rift between theory and practice could actually be of some benefit to education. (SM)

Advanced practice nurses are situated between general knowledge (knowing why, what, and how) and particular knowledge (knowing who--personal knowledge of patients). Integration of the two assists in knowing when a particular action would be most helpful. This practical wisdom is the hallmark of advanced practice. (Contains 45 references.) (SK)

In addition to addressing the theory-practice divide and profiling professional skills, the use of portfolios in nursing education provides a focus for discussion between students and preceptors, a vehicle for development of reflective skills, and a means of assessment. The benefits outweigh the increased workload and assessment challenges.…

Interviews with a small number of academic staff who had previously expressed strong views on the teaching-research relationship revealed substantial variation in their experiences of the relationship. Five qualitatively different experiences of the teaching-research relationship were evident, ranging from incompatibility, to transmission of new…

Advocates the need for a much stronger emphasis on and commitment to the science and practice of prevention in counseling psychology. Highlights historical and recent developments in the profession, as well as changing U.S. demographics and societal needs that mandate an enhanced prevention focus for the field. Articulates a prevention-based…

Presents a reaction to major contribution articles from this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" (2000, [this issue]). Highlights important concepts that call for the field of counseling psychology to go "back to basics," including identity issues; the scope of prevention; prevention evaluation research; preventive…

Discussion in multicultural counseling has focused on whether the culture specific or universal position is more useful. Provides a critical analysis of each of these positions and introduces the principles of change approach as a way of unifying multicultural counseling and moving the conversation to a more applied level. (Contains 49…

Elaborates an approach to self-supervision that is consistent with constructive therapies, though the intention is to provide flexible guidelines that can accommodate a range of supervisory activities. In order to construct the identity of a self-sustaining therapist, a process of "constructive inquiry" is used to connect the case story,…

Discusses leveling a charge of anti-intellectualism against compositionists who demand that theory result in classroom practice. Suggests the charge ignores the material conditions and intellectual reasons for that demand. Concludes there is a crucial place for theory in composition, even theory for theory's sake, but teaching in the composition…