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Reading Horizons Vol. 18, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 18, issue 4.

Classroom And The Cloze Procedure: Interaction In Imagery, Jane W. Meeks, Raymond F. Morgan

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The paper will give the background research concerning cloze techniques, detail the steps teachers would follow to use Interactive Cloze, report behavioral observations within the classroom setting, and indicate direction for research into the efficacy of this procedure.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 5, No. 4 (July 1978)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction - ii
• Systems Theory - ROBERT D. LEIGHNINGER, JR - 446
• Interactionist Theory, Human Behavior, Social Work Social Work Education - RALPH SEGALMAN - 467
• Structural Functional Theory, Social Work Practice and Education - JOE HUDSON - 481
• Conflict Theories and Social Work Education - NORMAN N. GOROFF - 498
• Two Perspectives on Organizationally-Inspired Barriers to Innovation in Schools of Social Work: Short and Long Term Strategies to Promote National Minority Group Representation - ROGER MC NEELY, JOHN OLIVER - 508
• The Perpetuation of Institutional Racism Through Ethnic and Racial Minority Content in the Curriculum of …

Conflict Theories And Social Work Education, Norman N. Goroff

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

How one defines the world has consequences for one's actions in the world. Sociology has attempted to utilize the scientific method to help human beings understand their social world. However, in the process of its development, sociology has reflected the ideological bias of its practitioners. (Mills, 1943). Irving Zeitlin (1968, pp. vii) claims "Much of classical sociology arose within the context of a debate - first with eighteenth-century thought of the Enlightenment, and later with its true heir of the nineteenth century, Karl Marx."

The central theme of this paper is that social work education makes extensive use of conflict …

Systems Theory, Robert D. Leighninger Jr.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Systems Theory has generated a lot of excitement in the last decade. It has also spawned more than its share of pitchmen, enough so that it is in danger of being discredited before its genuine potential in many fields of practice has been fairly tested. Wearing the double halo of Science and Corporate Efficiency conferred by its association with the aerospace industry and the Pentagon, it has been enthusiastically offered to Federal and State governments (Chartrand, 1971; Hoos, 1969 & 1972) as well as private individuals and organizations as a way of solving complex social problems like mass transit, crime, …

The Perpetuation Of Institutional Racism Through Ethnic And Racial Minority Content In The Curriculum Of Schools Of Social Work, James E. Herrick

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The author asserts that the effect of assimilation of ethnic and racial minority content into the curriculum of schools of social work may perpetuate institutional racism.

Social work education as well as the purpose of the profession itself are viewed as basically one of helping people adjust and accommodate to the dominant and racist institutions of our society. Consequently, the author argues, incorporation of ethnic and racial minority, content into curriculum that serves such a function is likely to serve ends to which it was not intended.

Five suggested areas of change in the mission of social work education are …

The "Science" Of Social Policy: Max Weber Revisited, Asoke Basu

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Science documents two sources of knowledge--sense and reason. Further, according to Kant, "The nature of the outer empirical world is not known, what becomes known is that which is perceived." Human constructs represent outer reality. They do not express reality directly as it is in original nature. The aim of the social scientist can never be to eliminate the relative perspective of social reality. It is to understand and explain it within a larger cultural framework. The nature of this task brings the social scientist "close" to defining the social reality within a broader cultural praxis. Any policy--essentially, a set …

Western News, June 22, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Accept Paper Recycling Pilot Plant, Student Services Building Named for Faunce, Tuition and Fees Moved Upward, Trustees Give Approval to Year-End Adjustments, Mitchell Tells Board of Guidelines, Board Approves Revised Grievance Procedure, Rizzolo Wins Top National Award

Western News, June 22, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Accept Paper Recycling Pilot Plant, Student Services Building Named for Faunce, Tuition and Fees Moved Upward, Trustees Give Approval to Year-End Adjustments, Board Approves Revised Grievance Procedure, Mitchell Tells Board of Guidelines, Rizzolo Wins Top National Award, New Department Chairmen Named

Western News, June 15, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Will Meet Friday, Guide to Shakespearean Festival Offered, Many Off-Campus Courses Offered this Summer, The Best Place to Study French…, Campus Improvement Forms Available, Grant Will Help Recruit Women and Minorities, Change Dates for Howard Street Closing, Special Day Planned for Students Over 25, Writers Featured in Videotape Programs

Western News, June 1, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Patron's Choice Series Announced, Faculty and Alumnus Named to Task Force, Trustee Ludlow Elected Science Foundation Officer, Professional Development Leaves Awarded, University Publication Earns High Rating, Pictorial History of Western Published, Nature Area Being Developed, Announce Long Range Planning Committee, Foucault Pendulum Discussed in Journal, Wetnight Reports Gifts and Grants for April

The Effect Of Auxiliary Dispersants On The Dispersion And Properties Of Coating Made With Domestic Clays, Carroll A. Brandt

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Polymeric organic dispersants are now being used to replace all or part of the inorganic dispersants currently is use for pigmented coatings. They are generally recommended for hard-to-disperse or for special applications where unusual coating requirements must be obtained.

This study showed the effect of some of these auxiliary dispersants when used with tetrasodium pyrephosphate (TSPP) to disperse domestic clay.

The results of this study showed that the most effective type of dispersants for this application are the acrylic-based polymers. The lignosulfate derivative and styrene maleic anhydride did not look as good as the acrylic-based polymers. When used in coatings …

Bulletin: Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 1978-1979, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• University Calendar • Accreditation • Councils • Admission, Registration, Advising • Degrees • Degree Requirements • General Education Requirement • Student Planned Curriculum • Undergraduate Curricula and • Approved Majors • Major and Minor Requirements • Teacher Certification • Student Fees • Academic Regulations • Student Academic Rights: Policies and Procedures • Student Services • Student Financial Aid and Scholarships • Miscellaneous Information • The Honors College • Librarianship • College of Applied Sciences • College of Arts and Sciences • College of Business • College of Education • College of Fine Arts • College of General Studies • …

Faculty Publications 1976-77, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1976-77 is the fifteenth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

Western News, May 25, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty Receive Promotions, Trustees Table Fee/Tuition Increases, Staff Training Officer Named, Tenure Granted Fifteen Faculty, Alumni Relations gets New Assistant Director, Appoint New Director for Regional Center, Holiday Hours for Libraries Announced, Spring Production Salutes Dr. Zack York, Closing Events for Diamond Jubilee This Week, Assistant Director of Registration Dies, Options for Directory Listing Explained

Faculty Recognition Dinner 1978, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner

May 12, 1978

Honored Retirees:

• Francis W. Allen
• Martin Cohen
• Kenneth B. Engle
• Louis A. Govatos
• Edwin Grossnickle
• Paul B. Horton
• Albert H. Jackman
• Haym Kruglack
• Elizabeth M. Lennon
• Jean Malmstrom
• Thomas W. Null
• Eleanor Y. Walton
• Mildred M. Winslow
• Zack L. York
• Lewis M. Yost

Western News, May 4, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Make Personnel Appointments, Estimated Fall Enrollment Given to Trustees, Faculty Senate Will Meet Tonight, Dr. Jean Malmstrom to Retire, Lindemans Mark Their 60th Anniversary, Faculty Recognition Dinner is May 12

Thirteenth Conference On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 13th Conference on Medieval Studies (May 4-7, 1978).

Western News, April 19, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU Coed to Study in Taiwan, Curtis-Smith Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship, Elect Senate Council Members, Salute Graph Theory Journal, Fulbright Grant Info Available, Course Changes Belief in Astrology, Revise Oaklands' Operating Policy, Printing Management Graduates 4 Women

Western News, April 13, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Employee Suggestion Plan Established, Ivan lllich Here Monday, WIDR's 'Kite Flite' Saturday, Bernhards Visit Egypt's Sadat, Student Center Sets Semester Break Hours, Emeriti Offer Estate Planning

Western News, April 6, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Library Hours Extended, Music License Fees Explained, Arts & Sciences Banquet Friday, Woods Given State Award, Stress Management is Conference Theme, Jaksa; Stech Study Monks, Japanese Film is Topic Today, AAG Honors Lucia Harrison, Guitar, Phonograph Used to Teach Spanish Culture

University Magaizine Vol. 4 No. 1, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• The "Blizzard of '78"
• The Health Care Problem
• On Campus
• Periscope on People
• Bronco Sports
• Alumni News
• Estate Planning Ideas
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• WMU

The Use Of Dry Strength Additives To Improve Curling Resistance In A Sheet Of Paper, Stephen D. Olsen

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The purpose of the following report was to look at the possibility of using dry strength resins to help reduce curling tendencies in a sheet of paper.

The use of dry strength additives greatly increased the strength characteristics of a sheet of paper. The increase was so great it allowed: substituting softwood fibers with hardwood fibers and/or using a higher freeness and still retain the same strength characteristics. The results of these changes would give a sheet of paper reduced curling tendencies. The changes could also result in power reductions, material savings, and/or improved formation for producing the sheet of …

If They Talk When You Say "Listen!" And Won't Talk When You Say "Discuss!" Read!, Patricia M. Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Speaking and listening, it appears, are elusive to many classroom teachers. There are no textbooks or teachers' guides. The many experts, who exhort teachers to include them, either don't tell how or suggest some isolated activities which at best fill up rainy afternoons.

Reading Horizons Vol. 18, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 18, issue 3.

Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Graduate Catalog 1978-1980 , Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• Section I: General Policies and Procedures • Section II: Master's Degree Programs and Requirements • Section III: Specialist Degree Programs and Requirements • Section IV: Doctoral Degree Programs and Requirements • Section V: Description of Graduate Courses • Section VI: The Graduate Faculty

Some Implications For Learning Centers, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It should be quite clear from the research evidence that successful students tend to plan their work carefully, think ahead, are conscientious, independent, self-confident and recognize the importance of finding suitable conditions for effective study (Entwistle and Entwistle, 1970). Being able to organize, having a good self-image and being flexible are most important traits for students to have. For students that are handicapped in various ways, there is hope. Students can learn academic skills, if they have a good teacher and work to help themselves.

How Disabled Readers Try To Remember Words, Catherine Morsink, Donald P. Cross, Jane Strickler

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Studies of memory tasks with normal learners, involving letters and word-like patterns, indicate that recall is easier when stimuli present familiar patterns, either as pronounceable syllables (Gibson, 1965) or as contextual dependencies (Miller & Selfridge, 1950). Blumberg (1968), studying associative learning tasks, found brain injured children to have the least difficulty in making associations between visual non-word like stimuli and spoken words, while having greatest difficulty with visual word-like associations. Bakker (1967) reports that severely disabled readers were significantly poorer than better readers in the recall of meaningful, but not meaningless, sequences.

Bibliography: Solving Problems Through Reading, Willian S. O'Bruba

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Although bibliotherapy has been known and practiced since ancient times, the term itself is of more recent origin. It is generally credited to Samuel McChord Crothers in an article in Atlantic Monthly in 1916. Shrodes (1955) has defined bibliotherapy as "a process of dynamic interaction between the personality of the reader and imaginative literature which may engage his emotions and free them for conscious and productive use." The Association of Hospital and Institution Libraries has adopted as official the dictionary definition which reads . . . "guidance in the solution of personal problems through directed reading." Simply stated bibliotherapy is …

A Study Employing A Technique For Matching The Cognitive Styles Of Graduate Students Specializing In School Librarianship With The Cognitive Style Of The “Ideal” Media Specialist, Resulting In A Suggested Career Counseling Model, Susan J. Mclntire

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.