For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong…

This book provides the busy teacher with all the information they need to make social inclusion a reality within schools. By demonstrating how teachers and schools must work together to promote the wider welfare of all children, the book focuses particularly on the welfare of children on the margins of society who need the most protection. It…

The paper suggests that current ways of thinking about disability are inadequate, both theoretically and as a basis for social policy. Reasons for the inadequacy are explored, and the final section of the paper begins to suggest a social theory of disability. (Author/CL)

Uses Chaim Perelman's theories of argumentation to examine a recent Institute of Medicine report, "Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research" (2000). Notes that it focuses on social, economic, behavioral, and political health as a means of assuring population health--and thereby expands the…

Looks at functions of literacy in a meeting intended for public presentation practice for front-line workers at a high-tech workplace. Examines social roles workers took on and how those roles recruited various uses of literacy. Notes how one employee commandeered this practice session to demonstrate how he had used literacy to resist authority…

Marketing higher education has been criticized for its consumer (interpreted as student) orientation. An alternative concept, situational marketing, considers the student as one of a number of environmental forces on which the marketing mix focuses. Other forces include funding and regulatory agencies, businesses, alumni, faculty, parents, the…

Discusses the way in which letters sent to Thomas Edison following the report that he had solved the problem of incandescent lighting reveal the many discursive worlds that Edison's work touched. Claims these letters indicate how a technological accomplishment is also a multiple, complex social, and communicative accomplishment, creating place and…

Considers how in most small undergraduate English departments the people in a department are its curricular future. Suggests that a department would do well to examine itself as a sociological community. Describes how the catalyst for change in Dickinson College's English department was the increasing pressure from the college's faculty personnel…

This paper presents an approach to voice therapy with adolescents, emphasizing the importance of psychosocial and family influences as they relate to vocal behavior. The goals of therapy for the adolescent with dysphonia usually follow an orderly sequence, first dealing with individual behavior and later with family and peer group influences. (JDD)

Introduces this special issue as an attempt to provide its readers with a coherent introduction to media ecology as both an intellectual tradition and a theoretical perspective. Describes how the special issue focuses on several of the many scholars whose thinking and writings have contributed to media ecology as a way of thinking about media,…

Issues such as work orientation, social stratification, and sex roles affecting career education for gifted and talented students are considered. Data on career-related problems facing this population are cited. Principles and characteristics of successful programs (such as active professional role models and individualized guidance) are…

It is argued that acculturation, anomie, social distance, and perceived social distance rather than biological factors define a critical period independent of the age of the learner for second language acquisition. Suggestions for planning instructional strategies and selecting materials based on this hypothesis are given. (PMJ)

Offers guidelines for white people on listening to people of color speak about their experiences of race. Asserts that: (1) today's society is situated within troubled forms of power, and it is in that context that most stories of race are spoken, and (2) today's society is laced with dehumanizing notions of pathology, and it is in that context…

Discusses how looking at child readers as audience means looking at how books for children are defined, how child readers are described, and how childhood itself is regarded. Considers several other points such as understanding the evolving concept of childhood, acknowledging the publisher's perspective, identifying underlying ideologies, and…

Discusses how in the literature of critical pedagogy, resistance theory analyzes, ranks, and judges the emancipatory value of writing behaviors, privileging nonreproductive and transformative consciousness over cultural reproduction. Notes that the ranking of consciousness and the central metaphor of "reproduction" too often are naively…