Student Reactions to College Grade Contracts

Policies and Practices in Higher Education by Algo D. Henderson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. 338 pp. $5.75.

Education: American Education by Chris A. De Young and Richard Wynn. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1960. 441 pp. $6.50.

Dialogues on the Teaching of Literature by Bertrand Evans and James J. Lynch. New York: Bookman Associates, 1960. 306 pp. $5.00.

Elementary School Curriculum by Marshall C. Jameson and Wm. Vernon Hicks. New York: American Book Company, 1960. 415 pp. $6.00.

How to Tell the School Story by Leslie W. Kindred and Associates. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1960. 500 pp. $9.00

Music Education in Action by Archie N. Jones. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc. 1960. 575 pp. $7.25.

Patterns of Professional Education, by William J. McGlothlin. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1960. 228 pp. $6.75.

Procedures and Preparation for Counseling by William C. Cottle and N. M. Downie. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1960. 321 pp. $6.00.

Prologue to Teaching by Marjorie B. Smiley and John S. Diekhoff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959. 590 pp. $5.75.

Psychology in Teaching and Learning by William Clark Trow. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. 488 pp. $5.75.

Teaching Primary Reading by Edward William Dolch. Champaign, Illinois: The Garrard Press, 1960. 425 pp. $4.50.

The General Education Class in the Secondary School by Louise E. Hock and Thomas J. Hill. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1960. 232 pp. $4.00.

The Student Teacher in the Elementary School, Second Edition, by John N. Michaelis and Enoch Dumas. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960. 388 pp. $6.00.

The Teaching of Reading by John J. DeBoer &; Martha Dalman. New York: Henry Holt &; Co., 1960. 359 pp. $5.00.

The Third Curriculum by Robert W. Frederick. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc. 1959. 454 pp. $5.75.

Universities: Commonwealth and American by Oliver C. Carmichael. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. 342 pp. $6.00.

Social Studies: Social Problems in Our Time by S. Kirson Weinberg. Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1960. $6.75.     

“Feminism Begins at Home”: The Influence of Mother Gender Socialization on Daughter Career andMotherhood Aspirations as Channeled Through Daughter Feminist Identification

Intercultural communication in contexts

Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama, Intercultural Communication in Contexts. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1997.

Communicating in the classroom

Kathleen Kougl, Communicating in the Classroom. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1997.

Relating: Dialogues and dialectics

Leslie A. Baxter and Barbara M. Montgomery, B.M., Relating: Dialogues and dialectics. New York: Guilford, 1996.     

“What Do You Say to Your Mother When Your Mother's Standing Beside You?” Birth and Adoptive Family Contributions to Adoptive Identity via Relational Identity and Relational–Relational Identity Gaps

Grounded in the communication theory of identity, the present study explores how adoptive identity—an individual's understanding of what it means to be an adopted person—is influenced by the relational layer of his or her adoptive and birth family relationships. Seven focus group interviews were conducted in which participants were prompted to engage in a dialog about their experiences as an adopted individual. Analyses revealed that adoptees' relational identity with both their adoptive and birth families contributed in meaningful ways to their adoptive identity, but these relationships at times come into conflict with one another and with the adoptees' personal layer of identity, generating relational–relational and personal–relational identity gaps.     

Exploring the Communication of Evangelical Families: The Association Between Evangelical Gender Role Ideology and Family Communication Patterns

This study examines the relationship between the Evangelical gender role ideologies termed Complementarianism and Egalitarianism and conversation- and conformity-orientation communication patterns stemming from the general theory of family communication. A nonrandom group (N = 124) of Evangelical parents were surveyed using a cross-sectional, self-report survey design. Specific differences were discovered in the perceptions of communication in families for individuals holding conservative Complementarian and progressive Egalitarian gender role ideologies. Evangelical parents who endorsed a more Egalitarian family gender role ideology reported greater use of conversation-oriented communication patterns in their families whereas respondents holding a more Complementarian family gender role ideology reported more use of conformity-oriented communication patterns in their families.     

International education for librarianship

Abstract

Three major international library science journals -International Information and Library Review, Information Development and Libri are studied to determine the nature and trends in library and information science research in Africa. 72 papers are analysed, covering the period 1990-1992 (three years). This includes the status of the authors, gender, affiliation, country and types of research. The type and origin of cited documents the authors used in writing articles were also explored. The findings show that more information professionals in Africa are getting involved in research and publishing, with the major areas being agricultural information and library education. A majority of the journals cited, however, came from outside Africa.     

The transformation of scholarly communication

Recent debate on the reform of scholarly communication has focused on access issues. Although important, access is only one dimension in which the scholarly process can be transformed. Scholars are embracing highly collaborative and data‐intensive standards of practice influenced by powerful computing and network technologies. This dramatic transformation of scholarship demands a natively digital, network‐based scholarly communication system that is able to capture the scholarly record, make it accessible, and preserve it over time. I will offer a technological perspective on how these demands might be met.