Reviews McIntosh's 1983 theory on the five-phase evolution of scholarship required by increasing feminism. Documents the sequence of the five phases using references to scholarly literature on the psychology of personality. Elaborates on Phase III in which investigators study women as inherently different from men and urges further study and…

Describes a methodology for improving critical thinking skills in sociology classrooms. Includes a discussion of classroom behavior of teachers, student attitudes, curriculum materials, and evaluation techniques. Concludes that critical thinking skills can be enhanced, with remarkable results. (DH)

Maintains that school violence of the 1980s is different from that of the 1960s. Reviews contemporary causes of violence such as misguided town planning, fast-paced life, lack of parental guidance, and rigid school organization. Details positive approaches to the problem and makes specific suggestions for school improvement. (JDH)

Reviews highlights of papers presented at first meeting of the International Standing Working Group for the History of Early Childhood Education held in August, 1984. The presentations covered the following three categories: (1) institutional early childhood education, (2) family education, and (3) sources and methods. (DST)

Explores the relationship between the scientific method as it is represented in social sciences and the "humanistic methodology" of history, and other humanities. Maintains that students preparing to be teachers should recognize these methodological sources for developing teaching strategies and activities. (JDH)

Applies the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to help high school juniors understand their own personalities and the personalities of Shakespearean characters. Provides a format for interdisciplinary learning where teachers and counselors work together in the classroom. (LLL)

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Examined and evaluated are remedial approaches to children's educational handicaps which are based on three conceptions that identify process dysfunction, adverse life experience, and experience deficits as causes. (Author/MC)

The field of education of the hearing impaired is thought to be deaf to advances in related fields and to innovations which might improve the education of hearing handicapped children. (DB)

Education for liberation of Africans and African-Americans is a continuous process of uncovering that environment which denies natural growth and development, and of discovering new sets of knowledge and reinterpreting old sets to accelerate renaming the world. (Author)

A member of the National Theatre of the Deaf urges utilization of creative arts in the education of deaf persons. (GW)

The article discusses the relationship between research and educational practice, and suggests that the lag between research and implementation be remedied by making the progress of the individual handicapped child the target of research. (GW)

Contends that sensitivity training and brainwashing are essentially different, though superficially similar in form and in that they involve behavior change and are based on explicable theories of learning and human behavior. Brainwashing is coercive and based on distrust; sensitivity training is collaborative and based on trust. (Author/JB)

Principles related to the application of psychoeducational therapy to a group of six severely dysfunctional children (initially mute, largely unresponsive, repetitively behaving, unrelating) over a 9-year period are described. (KW)

Although there is not much data on microteaching because it has been in use only nine years, the available data indicates that it is very effective for teacher training courses. Bibliography. (AF)