Exploring knowledge processes based on teacher research in a school–university research network of a master’s program

School–university research networks aim at closer integration of research and practice by means of teacher research. Such practice-oriented research can benefit both schools and universities. This paper reports on a multiple-case study of five participants in a school–university research network in a Dutch master’s program. The research question was: In what way is knowledge based on practice-oriented research by master’s students developed, shared, and used in school–university research networks in which education is primarily offered within a university setting? Twenty interviews were conducted, on the basis of logs, over a period of 10 months. Results show that (1) for master’s students, the most significant motive for developing, sharing or using knowledge was that the content knowledge about their research topic could be useful to school practice and colleagues; (2) research supervisors reported more than master’s students about the procedural knowledge that they had developed and shared. This knowledge focused on the collaborative process of supporting research and knowledge processes in school and university; (3) activities of knowledge sharing and use appeared to depend to a significant extent on individual purposes and leadership initiatives of master’s students and their supervisors; and (4) in the school–university research network, master’s students and research supervisors continued—to a limited extent—knowledge processes based on master’s students research after their graduation. Outcomes indicate that use of existing network structures in master’s programs is complex, but could be a promising avenue for creating successful school–university research networks.     

Measuring the demand for agricultural information

Abstract

Networked learning aims to foster students’ knowledge construction processes as well as the quality of knowledge construction. In this respect, it is crucial to be able to analyse both aspects of networked learning. Based on theories on networked learning and the empirical work of relevant authors in this domain, two coding schemes are presented to analyse the nature of learning processes and the quality of knowledge construction in networked learning. The coding schemes were used to analyse the learning processes and learning results of students in an MSc course on land use planning at Wageningen University in which networked learning played an important role. The inter-rater reliability of both instruments appeared to be satisfactory. The relation between the two coding schemes is discussed and recommendations for future research and educational practice are formulated.     

Item Analysis in Introductory Economics Testing

Abstract

An interdisciplinary mentoring program for graduate teaching assistants, the GTA mentoring program, offers the needed support for graduate students in their training as teacher-scholars. Authors outline the vision and structure of the program and highlight student, faculty, and institutional benefits. This program involves regular meetings of small teams consisting of graduate students and a faculty mentor, as well as larger group meetings of all participants. Benefits include the development of personal and professional relationships, an open forum for the discussion of teaching and research issues, increased professional support, and greater confidence in classroom instruction.     

Descriptions of new books

A DICTIONARY OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND THERAPY by S. D. Robbins, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Emerson College, formerly President of the American Speech and Hearing Association and for twenty years Chairman of its Nomenclature Committee ... Limited Edition. Attractive stiff paperbound edition, $1.90 postpaid ... Library Text Edition, $2.95 postpaid... Sci‐Art Publishers, Harvard Square, Cambridge 38, Mass.

RADIO CLASSICS, adapted by Norman A. Bailey, Romulus Linney, and Dominik Cascio. Copyright 1956, 169 pages, 8½ × 11, mimeoprint, spiral bound. Price open. Burgess Publishing Company.

THE ABC's OF PLAY PRODUCING by Howard Bailey... 1955. 276 pages, $3.50... David McKay Company, Inc.

NTRODUCTION TO OPERA: A Guidebook Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Edited by Mary Ellis Peltz with an Annotated List of Recordings by C. J. Luten … 332 pages … 51/8 × 81/8… $1.65 (Paperbound Everyday Handbook) ... Barnes & Noble, Inc.

SPEAK CORRECTLY by Lillian Haut, Speech teacher, New York City Schools... 56 pages, soft cover. 5½ × 8½. $1.50 … Speech Handbooks, 105 West 72nd St., New York 23, N. Y.

BUSINESS SPEAKING by James F. Clyne, Charles A. Dwyer, Edward J. Kilduff, Ralph M. Zink, all of the school of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance, New York University ... 246 pages, 10 illus., $3.75, Oxford University Press, Inc. (to be published Fall, 1956.

BASIC PUBLIC SPEAKING by Paul L. Soper, Professor of English and Speech... Chairman of the Speech Staff, University of Tennessee... New second edition. 400 pages. 12 photographs. $3.85 (college ed.) ...Oxford University Press, Inc. (March, 1956)

THE ROAD TO PERSUASION by William Muehl, Associate Professor of Public Speaking, Yale University … 282 pages, $3.95 … Oxford University Press, Inc. (Published September, 1956)

DISCUSSION by William S. Howell, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota, and Donald K. Smith, Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota... 1956, 292 pages, 5¾ × 82½, $4.00 … The Macmillan Company.

COMMUNICATIVE READING, by Otis J. Aggertt, Associate Professor of Speech, Albion College, and Elbert R. Bowen, Professor of Speech and Drama, Central Michigan College … 1956, 480 pages, 5¾× 8½, $4.25 … The Macmillan Company.

SPEECH CORRECTION IN THE SCHOOLS, by Jon Eisenson, Professor of Speech and Director of Speech and Hearing Clinic, Queens College, and Mardel Ogilvie, Assistant Professor of Speech, Queens College ... Published in November ... The Macmillan Company.

LANGUAGE: A MODERN SYNTHESIS, by Joshua Whatmough, Professor of Comparative Philology and Chairman of the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. With Appendixes, Glossary, Index; illustrated with diagrams, spectrogram, and map. Pp. ix+270. 1956. $4.75. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 103 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York.     

The Hollywood Palace

Frank Capra's The Name Above the Title (MacMillan, $12.50). Capra, who produced some of his major hits (“It Happened One Night” etc.)

Essoe, Gale and Raymond Lee. DeMille: The Man and His Pictures ($8.50)

Ladies in Distress ($10.00)

Lahue, Kalton C. Winners of the West: The Sagebrush Heroes of the Silent Screen ($10.00)

Lahue, Kalton C. Dreams for Sale: Rise and Fall of the Triangle Film Corporation ($8.50)

Lee, Raymond, and B.G. Van Hecker. Gangsters and Hoodlums: The Underworld in the Cinema ($8.95)

Lee, Raymond, The Films of Mary Pickford ($8.95)

Philip French's The Movie Moguls: An Informal History of the Hollywood Tycoons (Regnery, $5.95)

Mel Gussow's Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck (Doubleday, $7.95)

Inactive Properties Including Furniture, Decorative, Objects, Paintings, Posters, Set Skeches and other Decorations, Full size and model boats and ships-airplanes and model trains. (McGraw-Hill, $10.00 paperback)

Ivan Butler's The Making of Feature Films: A Guide (Pelican Books Al232, $1.75)

Kenneth H. Roberts and Win Sharpies' A Primer for Film Making: A Complete Guide to 16 MM and 35 MM Film Production (Pegasus (Division of Bobbs-Merrill), $15.00/6.75)

Arthur F. McClure (ed.) The Movies: An American Idiom–Readings in the Social History of the American Motion Picture (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, $15.00)

Gerald Mast's A Short History of the Movies (Pegasus, $12.50/4.95)

Andre Glucksmann's Violence on the Screen (BFI, 81 Dean St., London, WiV 6AA, England, $1.20) which briefly (78 pp.)

Today's Film Maker (American Film Maker Inc., 250 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., $3.50)     

Popular Music

Frank Tirro Jazz: A History (New York: Norton, 1977—$16.95 in trade edition; $12.95 in text edition, both hardback)

Leonard Feather Inside Jazz (New York: Da Capo, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Jim Haskins The Cotton Club (New York: Random House, 1977—$15.00, with paperback edition available)

Jeff Todd Titon Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977—$16.50)     

Research methods and Guides

The Territory of the Historian by E.. Le Roy Ladurie(Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1979 —S21.00)

Harvard Guide to American History edited by Frank Freidel, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1974 with 1479 as first date for this paperback edition—$12.50 (on tne book cover) or 39.95 (in the slip inside from the publisher)

Witham Katz Your Library: A Reference Guide (New: York: Holt. Rinehart & Winston, 1919—price not given, gaper)

Alan E. Thompson, Understanding Futurology: An Introduction. to Futures Study (Newton Abbot, U.R /North Pomfret, Vt. : David & ,1979 —$12.50)     

Management of core resources: The case of media enterprises

Abstract

For media firms, convergence is a strategy for value creation. However, the concept of convergence belongs to a field of media research and practice that still is in a pre‐paradigmatic stage (Kuhn). The aim of the analysis is to contribute to the process towards “normal science,”; where the paradox of conceptualisation is solved and the outcome is guiding research as well as business development. The article introduces the concept of “value creation convergence,”; and discusses its potential as a sixth dimension of the convergence concept in relation to Miège's typology of traditional media firms (editorial, press, and flow) and Stabell &; Fjeldstad's typology of value creation configurations (chain, shop, and network).