An accessory to a principal's repertoire of techniques used in managing administrative task areas is the role of the principal as an administrative gamesman. (Author/MLF)

In many disturbed and abused adolescents, acting out is the alternative to despair. The treatment task is to understand the significance of the acting out and to be able to give it a positive meaning. (Author/SJL)

Discusses the Russian master, Leo Tolstoy, and the fact that he wrote pedagogical treatises besides novels. Talks about his free school for children on his estate and his research on education. Discusses two of Tolstoy's essays which recount interactions with the peasant children. Links this to teaching an adult writing workshop at a soup kitchen.…

Presents an approach (designed for beginners) to using PROC CALIS, a Statistical Analysis System (SAS) procedure, to perform path analyses using observed variables. The approach begins with the development of a figure to illustrate the researcher's theoretical model, and then converts the figure into a PROC CALIS program. (SLD)

Considers how school agendas dominate virtually every aspect of professional theatre for young audiences (TYA) companies. Proves the historical heritages of this ideological dance. Explores the TYA field through perspectives of agency - the implications of the overt activities of the field in the signifying discourses of the field. (SG)

Discussion of applying strategies of cooperative learning offers five principles and reflections of one teacher. The principles are: (1) teach what you preach; (2) accountability counts; (3) mediation versus aggravation; (4) publish or perish; and (5) create or satiate. Suggestions for evaluation include encouraging student feedback and moving…

Employs a classroom version of the research game, the Ultimatum Game, to teach undergraduate students how fairness affects behavior. Focuses on three concepts related to fairness. Finds that classroom results motivate discussion about a downward sloping demand curve for fairness. Provides an appendix that includes instructional materials. (JEH)

Suggests that the marginalized teacher-subject look to contemporary theoretical notions of the "radical resignification" of power as well as to the neglected rhetorical concept of metis, or "cunning," to engage difference more efficaciously, if more sneakily. Argues that one possible praxis for better negotiating student resistance is the…

Discusses the importance of healthy dietary behaviors in youth. Lists many ways in which diet can significantly affect the health of adolescents including: nutrition and learning, chronic disease risk, overweight and obesity, unhealthy weight management practices and eating disorders, barriers to healthy eating habits, and overcoming barriers in…

Offers three "unabashedly normative" considerations for translating organizational communication scholarship to practice: identifying a problem, incorporating participant voices, and presenting research to practitioners. Suggests that by engaging in these practices scholars can create alternative organizational stories and in doing so create space…

Considers how the argument that communication is a "practical discipline" is compelling because it suggests that educators should be finding ways to make their research and teaching relevant to the world. Discusses a need to work through what the ideal of engagement is. Identifies 10 strategies that are most important to the authors, and considers…

Examines three contemporary taxonomies of revision as proposed by Wallace Hildick, Lester Faigley and Stephen Witte, and Sondra Perl. Uses literary and cultural theory to bridge the gap between these theories and students' revision practices. Argues that while revision may be prescriptive, it must also be subordinate to the writer's intentions and…

Presents a model to help teachers and curriculum developers identify priorities for health instruction. The model combines ideas from many accepted theories in health education. The paper examines basic questions for curriculum planning, then describes the development and use of behavioral maps. (SM)

Explores a central conflict in the field of "writing across the disciplines": voice versus discourse, or process versus form. Argues that this conflict is founded on a false dichotomy. Argues that the concept of the "rhetoric of inquiry" is capable of connecting the two sides of the conflict in a new synthesis. (HB)

Complains that, even though composition instructors beg their students to improve their writing style, much professional writing is stylistically dense and unreadable. Questions whether writing teachers can teach style or whether asking for sentence variety is useful. Criticizes the treatment of style and sentence variety in composition textbooks.…