In order to help meet the need for scientifically based practice, as well as the need for a structure within which diverse approaches to practice can be encompassed, this article explicates the concept of scientific practice. The concept is developed as an organic combination of four subconcepts: the task of a practitioner, the scientific…

The University Council for Educational Administration's internal evaluation of its National Level Internship Program was designed to perform two functions. First, it was intended to help the program improve itself as it went along. This involved use of intervention methods stressing the potential for the evaluation process itself to influence what…

This cooperative program has been designed primarily for students in education and the social sciences at the four colleges of the Central Pennsylvania Consortium, to help them understand the problems of the urban environment and to challenge them to help in solving these problems during the course of the program and also in their later life. It…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between two aspects of higher education: the liberal arts and experiential learning. The thesis is that a combination of the traditional liberal arts objectives with the methods of experiential education can result in a strengthening of liberal education at a time when circumstances severely…

This anthology of articles and reports on micro-team teaching (a scaled down team teaching operation usually taking place in a single, self-contained classroom with two student teachers and one cooperating teacher) is divided into three sections. Section One, "An Overview of Micro-Team Teaching," discusses trends in the preservice phase of teacher…

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has been operating a program of service-learning in resource development for student interns, public service agencies, and institutions of higher education since 1967. The objectives of the program are: (1) to give manpower assistance to agencies concerned with economic and social development; (2) to…

This report describes the internship scheme in Jamaica as a terminal experience following a period spent in the teacher's college acquiring substantive knowledge of the profession. Program emphasis is placed on laboratory and field experience as well as technical competence. Major features of internship include the development of a Teaching…

The 1971 Georgia Summer Governor's Intern Program was a pilot project to determine the validity of involving college students in a community-based service-learning internship context. Stated objectives of the program were: (1) to give immediate manpower assistance, through the work of students to agencies concerned with economic and social…

The North Carolina Internship Office (NCIO) has sponsored for the past several years a service-learning program for college students. NCIO has prepared this booklet to make readily available abstracted and consolidated information about the service-learning internship model and to suggest organizational policy considerations for making…

Internships for university administrators provide a method of training that maintains professional vitality, while also providing the individual with meaningful experience and preparing future leaders for the academy. The ideal internship, ACE Fellows Program, mentor relationships, and ACE Cooperative Personnel Exchange are mentioned, and a…

Described is a public health student internship program utilizing field experience and an interdisciplinary team approach. Students and professional field training supervisors felt the seven week program was successful. (MA)

Describes a program in which college agricultural education majors between their junior and senior years are placed with vocational agriculture teachers to gain experience in conducting a summer vocational agriculture program. (HD)

Describes a four-semester course in technical communication that culminates in a student project for which students work in teams aided by faculty managers to define a project, learn about it on their own, gather evidence, choose the best solution, and defend their choices to an outside client. (SRT)

Outlines three different models of formal experiential education: instruction group process, simulation and games, and field experience. Describes the development of the Field Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley and examines the process by which all three traditions were effectively integrated into the program. (SB)