Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Western Michigan University

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 47671 - 47700 of 53031

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Understanding The Hypothesis, It's The Teacher That Makes The Difference: Part Ii, Jerome Harste Jan 1978

Understanding The Hypothesis, It's The Teacher That Makes The Difference: Part Ii, Jerome Harste

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Go to article

Teachers, Parents, And Reading Instruction: A Learning Alliance, Kenneth Kavale Jan 1978

Teachers, Parents, And Reading Instruction: A Learning Alliance, Kenneth Kavale

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This paper explores some ways in which teachers can direct the efforts of parents so children gain the best possible advantage in learning to read.

Go to article

Attitude Toward Reading And Reading-Related Concepts Among Elementary Students, Penny Jo Nielsen Jan 1978

Attitude Toward Reading And Reading-Related Concepts Among Elementary Students, Penny Jo Nielsen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The study measured student attitude toward reading and reading related concepts to determine the effects of grade level, reading achievement, sex, race, and social status upon reading attitudes.

Go to article

Measurement Of Teacher Knowledge Of Reading, H.L. Narang Jan 1978

Measurement Of Teacher Knowledge Of Reading, H.L. Narang

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The latest trend in teacher education is towards competency- based programs which focus on the specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes that teachers ought to develop in order to perform well on the job. One area of teacher competencies is knowledge of the subject-matter. Cooper (1973) calls this knowledge competency. Several writers have emphasized the mastery of subject-matter as an important component in teacher preparation. Bush (1954) says that students like teachers whom they regard as high in knowledge of subject; and pupil liking of teachers is related to pupil liking for the subject. Miller and Miller (1971) asked school adminstrators …

Go to article

Sportsprint--A Primer For The Reading Blahs, Harvey Frommer Jan 1978

Sportsprint--A Primer For The Reading Blahs, Harvey Frommer

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Educators bemoan reading readiness, reading curiosity, reading skills on the part of their students. Some segments of the society blame the electronic media and limply rationalize that nothing can be done about a deplorable situation.

Go to article

The Reading Field Agent: A Model For The Diagnostic Teaching Of Teachers, Jack Cassidy Jan 1978

The Reading Field Agent: A Model For The Diagnostic Teaching Of Teachers, Jack Cassidy

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Diagnostic teaching with all its ramifications is one of the trends in education which has had profound implications for the field of reading. Unfortunately, too much of the emphasis has been on diagnosis and not enough on teaching. Teachers are constantly bombarded with new tests diagnostic, criterion referenced, etc. all of which are reputed to accurately pinpoint the reading needs of all students. Many of the results of these measures are at best tenuous: the fact that a well trained teacher is the best diagnostician is one fact that is often ignored in any implementation of diagnostic teaching.

Go to article

Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman, Billie Jo Rieck Jan 1978

Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman, Billie Jo Rieck

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Because most states now require that all prospective teachers must have formal instruction in the teaching of reading in order to qualify for certification, the reading teacher must be prepared (1) to justify the requirement and (2) to teach the sort of course which will be valuable to students in a broad diversity of subject areas. In the article which follows. Professor Billie Jo Rieck of West Liberty State College in West Liberty, West Virginia offers a workable method for presenting the required course in the teaching of reading to the broad variety of students who pass through it. Professor …

Go to article

Reading Expectancy Formulae--Strengths And Limitations To Be Considered, Beverly Hooper Jan 1978

Reading Expectancy Formulae--Strengths And Limitations To Be Considered, Beverly Hooper

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading expectancy formulae and intelligence tests are two instruments with which the reading teacher is very familiar. However, the designs of both reading expectancy formulae and intelligence tests have incorporated various strengths and limitations into each. When the two are combined to determine a child's level of expectancy, much distortion in prediction may occur if careful selection and evaluation of these instruments are not executed. A critical look at the popular reading expectancy formulae and related use of intelligence tests will show that there are beneficial uses of reading expectancy formula in general but that there are also valid reasons …

Go to article

Initiating Assessment Of Student Needs In Content Areas, Jerry L. Johns Jan 1978

Initiating Assessment Of Student Needs In Content Areas, Jerry L. Johns

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

As students move through the elementary grades they encounter more and more reading in the content areas: social studies, science, mathematics, and English. Most teachers are aware of the burden that vocabulary and concept load place upon each student's ability to understand what he/she has read. Although teachers usually group students according to reading ability to facilitate basal reading instruction, there is often little or no effort expended to meet individual or group reading needs in the content areas. One reason for this neglect may be that teachers lack systematic ways of assessing students' mastery of the technical vocabulary in …

Go to article

Reading Horizons Vol. 18, No. 2 Jan 1978

Reading Horizons Vol. 18, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 18, issue 2.

Go to article

Quick Reviews Jan 1978

Quick Reviews

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Go to article

Some Thoughts On Interdisciplinary Studies, Sidney F. Parham, Peter W. Graham Jan 1978

Some Thoughts On Interdisciplinary Studies, Sidney F. Parham, Peter W. Graham

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The vogue for interdisciplinary courses has led our more crusty and conservative colleagues to complain that such programs represent a mere repackaging of traditional courses, a process that diminishes the value the student receives from traditional courses without broadening or integrating his knowledge. Too often this criticism is just. We should like to argue that a genuinely interdisciplinary approach does not repackage but restructures knowledge in such a way that students are led to consider the nature of knowledge itself and thus, we hope, to think about their own thinking. Such reflection seems to us a decidely traditional goal of …

Go to article

Effective Ways Of Building Vocabulary In Every Content Area, Donald C. Cushenbery Jan 1978

Effective Ways Of Building Vocabulary In Every Content Area, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One of the important responsibilities of any teacher at any level is that of planning a sequential program of vocabulary development in each and every area of the curriculum. Vocabulary enlargement must be seen as being a part of the major language arts curriculum of every school in all content departments. All teaching which deals with oral and written words involves concept formation and hence additional words and phrases with their attendant meanings.

Go to article

Born Again (New Life And Hope For Liberal Arts Education), William A. Cook, James C. Gonyea Jan 1978

Born Again (New Life And Hope For Liberal Arts Education), William A. Cook, James C. Gonyea

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Linwood Orange established the value of Liberal Arts study as the basis for entry into a variety of career areas: legal, medical, governmental, and commercial.1 Orange surveyed 400 businesses and industries to determine the kinds of positions liberal arts majors and, specifically, English majors held in those corporations. In addition, his questionnaire provided information on courses that would benefit liberal arts students should they hope to pursue careers in the commerce or governmental area. Fundamental to all employment indicated by this survey were ten (10) basic skills or competencies that seemed to be inherent in liberal arts study and …

Go to article

Interdisciplinary Study: The Ideal And The Real, W. J. Reeves Jan 1978

Interdisciplinary Study: The Ideal And The Real, W. J. Reeves

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This study will examine the various interdisciplinary programs in operation in major universities, focusing on the methods of organization and detailing the problems of existence of such programs.

There are many ways to organize interdisciplinary programs, but the following methods appear most often:

1. Significant Time Periods

2. Area Studies

3 . Humanities and the Professions

4. Topics

A description of these methods is necessary.

Go to article

General Education And Interdisciplinary Studies In The Arts, Dennis J. Sporre Jan 1978

General Education And Interdisciplinary Studies In The Arts, Dennis J. Sporre

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The conservatory approach to education in the arts is commonplace. Even in land-grant institutions which purportedly espouse a liberal arts or general education (there are differences between the two) the tendency in arts instruction has been to shape the curriculum into more and more specificity, so that even at the undergraduate level the student is given an option to choose, within his major, rather narrow specializations. The resultant increase in specialty courses and their need for staffing constantly refires the age-old arguments relating to general and liberal education and how, within various matrixes, general students or non-majors can be accommodated. …

Go to article

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey Jan 1978

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor's Page for Interdisciplinary Perspective

Go to article

Humanistic Biology: A General Education Approach, Alwynelle S. Ahl, Lawrence R. Krupka, Helen B. Hiscoe, Andrew Mcclary Jan 1978

Humanistic Biology: A General Education Approach, Alwynelle S. Ahl, Lawrence R. Krupka, Helen B. Hiscoe, Andrew Mcclary

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In modern man's attempt to understand human nature, two major modes of perceiving human experience, the humanistic and scientific, have often been in conflict. C.P. Snow labelled this dichotomy " the two cultures." As the power of science and accompanying technology have grown in the past forty years, the distance between the two cultures has widened. Reflecting concern about this cleavage, some scientists have attempted to incorporate humanistic perspectives and goals into science. In the area of biology, this humanistic concern is demonstrated by such groups as the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences (Hastings-on-Hudson) and its highly …

Go to article

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1978-79, Wmu Faculty Senate Jan 1978

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1978-79, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Power Of The Printed Word, Kenneth Vandermeulen Jan 1978

Power Of The Printed Word, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Go to article

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke Jan 1978

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Maslow, Abraham H. (1970). Motivation and Personality

Go to article

The Reading-Career Education Connection, Richard T. Vacca Jan 1978

The Reading-Career Education Connection, Richard T. Vacca

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Career education thus provides a framework that can make reading experiences vital and meaningful. Reading, as Brickell (1975) suggests, is "the only skill that will be used in every job, the only skill that can free the mind and put bread on the table" (p. 6). If his comments appear to be zealously stated, they nevertheless serve to amplify the reading-career education connection. For the vast majority of students reading is and will continue to be the most efficient vehicle for learning. It can serve as the prime tool for exploring the world of work and in sharpening the thinking …

Go to article

Social Control Or Social Wage: On The Political Economy Of The "Welfare State", Paul Adams Jan 1978

Social Control Or Social Wage: On The Political Economy Of The "Welfare State", Paul Adams

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Discussion between liberal apologists for the "welfare state" and their radical critics has tended in recent years to focus on the question of "social control." In this area the corporate liberals and social democrats (the "welfare statists") are weak. They talk of the "welfare state" as if, at least in principle, it represented the collective assumption by society of responsibility for the basic needs and dependencies of its members. Insofar as "social control" is relevant for them, it has to do with society's exercise of restraint over the selfish pursuit of private profit.1 Radical critics of the "welfare state," on …

Go to article

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1978) Jan 1978

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1978)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

  • Editorial - pp i
  • A Political Economy Critique of the American Welfare State - GERBEN DeJONG - 1
  • Social Control or Social Wage: On the Political Economy of the "Welfare State." - PAUL ADAMS - 46
  • The "Casework Notebook": An Analysis of Its Content - LESLIE B. ALEXANDER & PHILIP LICHTENBERG - 55
  • The Measurement of Personal Influence in Organization and Community - ROGER A. LOHMANN - 66
  • Receiving Help: Management Strategies of the Handicapped - NANCY A. BROOKS - 91
  • The MSW and the MPA: Confrontation of the Two Professions in Public Welfare - THOMAS H. WALZ & HARRY …

Go to article

A Political Economy Critique Of The American Welfare State, Gerben Dejong Jan 1978

A Political Economy Critique Of The American Welfare State, Gerben Dejong

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Despite its rapid expansion over the last decade, the American welfare state appears unable to remedy many of the social problems it has been designated to solve. In many instances, the welfare state has become as much a part of the problem as the solution. Unfortunately, most proposals to reform the welfare state do not go beyond the liberalconservative conception of the welfare state as a backup to the capitalist market system. This conception of the welfare state is part of a larger comitment to a free market-pluralist ideology that singles out certain social phenomena as problematic and limits the …

Go to article

The "Case Work Notebook": An Analysis Of Its Content, Leslie B. Alexander, Philip Lichtenberg Jan 1978

The "Case Work Notebook": An Analysis Of Its Content, Leslie B. Alexander, Philip Lichtenberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Although the contemporary trend of the unionization of both professional and non-professional social service workers merits careful examination of both socio-structural and ideological dimensions, the following study is confined to a historical analysis of the professional, more specifically, casework interests of a group of professional social work unionists in the late 1930s, early 1940s. The method of content analysis is used to examine several major themes within a regular section, "The Case Work Notebook," of the journal, Social Work Today, which was the major theoretical organ of the social work union movement.

Go to article

Receiving Help: Management Strategies Of The Handicapped, Nancy A. Brooks Jan 1978

Receiving Help: Management Strategies Of The Handicapped, Nancy A. Brooks

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The social act of helping is presented from the recipient's viewpoint. Interview material from handicapped adults and contributions from the literature on helping provide insight to the helped person's management and interpretation of being helped. Techniques employed in the management of help are described. Alternative strategies and interpretations are available to the helped person; receiving help is not necessarily demeaning as social norms suggest. The interaction between helper and helped person is the central concern.

Go to article

The Msw And The Mpa: Confrontation Of Two Professions In Public Welfare, Thomas H. Walz, Harry J. Macy Jan 1978

The Msw And The Mpa: Confrontation Of Two Professions In Public Welfare, Thomas H. Walz, Harry J. Macy

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

From its inception in the 1930's, public welfare has emerged as a major service industry commanding a sizeable portion of the public tax dollar. Concomitant with growth and size and expenditure has come the federalization of the program. In the face of a series of changes--the growth of welfare, added administrative complexity, and the emergence of new economic function--public welfare's identification with social work was weakened. Correspondingly, and perhaps logically, its identification with public administration has been strengthened. In this paper, there is exploration of the changes leading to the confrontation between social work and public administration within public welfare. …

Go to article

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1978, Wmu Board Of Trustees Jan 1978

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1978, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

  • MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • MINUTES
    • January 20
    • February 17
    • March 17
    • April 21
    • May 19
    • June 16
    • July 21
    • September 15
    • October 20
    • November 17
    • December 15
  • APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES
    • DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS
  • APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
    • April 22, 1978
    • June 21, 1978
    • August 18, 1978
    • December 16, 1978
  • INDEX

Go to article

The Measurement Of Personal Influence In Organization And Community, Roger A. Lohmann Jan 1978

The Measurement Of Personal Influence In Organization And Community, Roger A. Lohmann

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Discussions of personal influence in situations in communities and organizations are ordinarily abstract and theoretical. In this paper, a practical method for the measurement of influence in interactional terms is developed. The approach combines the use of Likert scales, sociometric techniques and a simplified version of "blockmodeling" using mathematical matrices. The method is outlined using a hypothetical social service agency with a seven-member staff.

Go to article

First Prev Next Last