Examines some of the behavioral aspects of teaching sociology in professional schools. Maintains that teaching in a professional school means that one's scholarly accomplishments must impress two different audiences with distinctly different values and expectations. By-products of this situation are overspecialization and a sense of intellectual…

Women face technological issues in information professions: work is changing rapidly as technological changes are introduced; women need to be willing to make positive contribution to technological development; women need to use continuing-education experiences that can assist in developing knowledge and strategies they need to respond to change.…

Teachers' attitudes towards incentives should be analyzed before programs involving such incentives as merit pay or master teachers are implemented. Elementary school teachers were interviewed to help identify the value and effectiveness of institutional rewards. The interaction between personal life events and career choices was also examined.…

This essay on the issue of qualifications for librarianship highlights debate over the Master of Library Science (MLS) as legitimate academic credential or minimum qualification, use of the MLS, change and new directions that are transforming field of librarianship, nonlibrarian specialists, and professional role and behavior. Ten sources are…

Reports the findings of a survey of 141 teachers that investigated whether public school teachers of subjects involving reading, writing, and literature read contemporary materials in these fields. (HOD)

The president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching applauds the push for educational excellence but believes local school personnel are too rarely considered in the reform process. He suggests ways of granting teachers and principals the support and recognition they need to participate effectively in educational improvement.…

Classifies teachers who leave teaching as the "honest departers," the "overworked group," and the "confused and unhappy." Cites principal reasons for teacher attrition as insufficient social and economic rewards, isolation in the classroom, unrealistic training, society's unrealistic expectations, and teacher vulnerability to criticism. (CJM)

Responds to report of National Commission on Excellence in Education by discussing (1) politics of commissions, social problems, and planned change; (2) implied contribution of educational problems to economic problems; (3) funding of public education and costs of reform; (4) romanticization of past; (5) teachers as professionals; (6) schools and…

Evidence is presented both for and against the proposition that innovation is punished by surveys that rank academic quality. Systematic work is needed to show how innovation, experimentation, and lack of orthodoxy in research and teaching affect Ph.D. programs' ratings in academic quality rankings. (Author/MLW)

An effective system of evaluation is advocated as a means to improvement of the teaching/learning process. Colleague evaluation and academic freedom need not be adversaries but may contribute to educational accountability. (LBH)

Citing a decreased proportion of full-time tenured faculty at American colleges and steady increase of part-time adjunct and other nontenure-track faculty, this American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) document advocates professionalism of the manner in which part-time/adjunct faculty are employed, compensated, supported and treated in higher…

Article addresses itself to the situation of the classroom teacher, his role in guiding students to learn, and the standards by which he is judged. (RK)

Aspects of required teacher competencies and new developments in social studies, lingering conflicts, and suggestions to strengthen the social studies teaching profession are observed in an address by the President of the National Council of Social Studies. (KM)

School Counseling is discussed in relation to secondary levels of education, and in particular, this article is concerned with the social orientation of youth. (Author/RK)

Discusses problems in establishing a nursing science theory and which are related to the utilization of basic science theory in professional research and study. (Author/RK)