Mainstreaming colleges of education: an opinion

Unless change can occur in a manner which alters previously held attitudes toward colleges of education, little is gained

School of Education and the Evolving Nature of Partnerships

Collaboration between the public schools and universities usually results in associations which are enlarged as a natural consequence of the collaboration

Online Instruction as a Pedagogy: Implications for Higher Education Faculty

Because online instruction incorporates instructional design and management, asynchronous learning, the process of communication, technology, and the opportunity for accountability in the teaching/learning process, it can be considered a form of pedagogy

Quality Instruction for Students with Disabilities

This is the publisher's version, also found at http://sped.org

Was die neuen Frauen wollen

Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre hat sich eine neue Generation von Frauenzeitschriften auf einem als übersättigt geltenden Markt etabliert. Diese Blätter richten sich an Frauen zwischen 20 und 35 Jahren. Glamour aus dem Condé Nast Verlag scheint die Perfektion dieses neuen Zeitschriftentypus zu sein. Das Magazin im Pocket-Format wurde sofort nach seiner Einführung im Februar 2001 Marktführer im Segment der monatlich erscheinenden Frauenzeitschriften. Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie dieser Erfolg zu erklären ist. Warum kaufen Frauen Glamour? Mit Hilfe von Gruppendiskussionen wurde ein Katalog von Nutzungsmotiven herausgearbeitet. Glamour befriedigt vor allem Bedürfnisse von Frauen, die sich in der Lebensphase der verlängerten Adoleszenz befinden. In dieser Übergangszeit hilft Glamour beim Management von Identität und Emotionen, ist idealer Alltagsbegleiter und billiger als die Konkurrenz, liefert Ratschläge und Mode für die „normale“ Frau und hat zudem mit dem Pocket-Format eine Innovation geboten, die den Wünschen der Zielgruppe entgegenkam. Die „neuen“ Frauen sind weit selbständiger als ihre Mütter und Großmütter, und sie haben ein anderes Verhältnis zu Unterhaltungsangeboten

Internationalization Through Americanization

Based on Bourdieu’s concepts of sociology, this article explores the International Communication Association’s internationalization effort involving recruiting non-U.S. scholars into top positions. Therefore, it examines both the habitus and the capital of the 26 communication researchers from outside the United States who have been distinguished as ICA presidents and fellows. The study contributes to the discipline’s reflexivity and shows that despite the expansion of ICA’s leadership, the field’s power pole is still a U.S.-centered enterprise. Today, ICA’s international leadership is located in world regions closely linked to the United States and educated at U.S. universities or heavily influenced by North American research traditions, even if it includes a numerous contributions from other associations and alternative approaches. Consequently, this internationalization hardly changed ICA but instead changed the world’s communication field. At least up to a certain extent, new perspectives are perceived at the discipline’s power pole. However, in return, national academic environments in U.S.-affiliated countries became Americanized, especially via ICA fellows serving as role models to get scientific capital. Thus, ICA’s efforts to expand its leadership are assumed to have an unintended effect of conserving the power structures in the field

‘The totalitarian destruction of the public sphere?’ Newspapers and structures of public communication in socialist countries: the example of the German Democratic Republic

Using the example of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), this study deals with the public sphere in Eastern European countries before 1989. It supports the thesis that even the ‘guided’ and controlled daily press enabled the readers (even in a limited way) to observe the process of communication and to make up their own minds. The article is based on two main sources: files from the Federal archives in Berlin and a series of 100 biographical interviews, held between 2000 and 2002, in which former GDR residents have been asked about their everyday media usage during the 1980s. This article discusses the concept of public communication and propaganda and shows how the politically staged public sphere operated from the point of view of the rulers and professional readers as well as regular subscribers