Considers the interconnection of curriculum problems and the processes by which they are treated and argues that much is to be gained by seeing curriculum problems and processes as instances of much wider sets of problems and processes generally belonging in the area of public policymaking. (Author/MLF)

In contrast to science and technology, public policymaking systems lack knowledge about the design and operation of overall social control. Policy sciences contribute to the understanding and improvement of large-scale control systems, especially in their attempt to give rationality to policymaking and decisionmaking activities. The most important…

Public policy for agriculture and natural resources must change as farming and the use of resources change, but policy also changes to reflect new understandings. The new understandings that will shape future agricultural policy may not come from food producers or agricultural scientists, and may not assume that expanding production is the primary…

An experimental project sought to build a replicable model of a viewer-active television simulation. Other educational goals were to 1) increase citizen concern for environmental factors and land use in Maine; 2) disseminate information on land use agencies; 3) illuminate the citizen's role in public planning; and 4) develop new patterns of…

Actions that a college might pursue if they have difficulty meeting their financial obligations on dormitory construction loans are discussed by the president of Kansas Wesleyan University. It is noted that when the administration of the loan program was shifted to the new Department of Education (the Department), the agency pushed to collect all…

Increasingly, school services are being guided by a problem solving approach and are evaluated by the achievement of positive outcomes. This shift is explored here in 96 chapters and 11 appendices. The volume provides a comprehensive reference relating contemporary research and thought to quality professional services. Part 1, "Professional…

These proceedings contain 13 papers: "A Study of the Impact of a Community-Based School to Work Program for High School Youth" (Adler et al.); "A Comparison of Workforce Preparation Policies in the United States and Finland" (Lasonen, Frantz, Jr.); "The Association of Social Position to Restructuring Ability and Symbolic Orientation" (Fritz);…

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…