THE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IS EMPHASIZED AS THE KEY ACTIVITY. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE MID-1950'S BECAME ONE OF THE MOST VIGOROUS AND HOPEFUL PROTAGONISTS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. THE ACTS PASSED AND THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CREATED ARE NOTED AS AGENTS IN THIS NEW…

UNDER A U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION GRANT, AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES USED IN LONG TERM COMMUNITY SPONSORED EPIC PRESENTATIONS BY MAJOR OUTDOOR HISTORICAL AND CLASSICAL DRAMA COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE UNITED STATES. THE PRINCIPAL FINDINGS ARE BASED ON 83 ON THE SPOT SURVEYS AND INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTORS AND STAFF MEMBERS…

THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE R AND I UNIT IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL. THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES OF VARIOUS UNITS IN THE SUBJECT-MATTER AREAS OF SCIENCE, ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN FOUR WISCONSIN SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE BRIEFLY DISCUSSED. EA 001 022 IS A RELATED DOCUMENT. (HM)

DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, ATTEMPTS WERE MADE IN MILWAUKEE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE NATION TO IMPROVE RELATIONS BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYERS AND THEIR IMMIGRANT WORKERS. THESE ATTEMPTS CONSISTED LARGELY OF COMPANY-SPONSORED RECREATIONAL AND WELFARE ACTIVITIES MARKED BY INFORMALITY AND PATERNALISM. AFTER 1900, HOWEVER, CAME MORE SYSTEMATIC…

THIS BROCHURE PRESENTS A SIMPLIFIED DESCRIPTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS DISPENSED BY THE FIVE SCHOOLS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INSTRUCTION. THERE ARE SECTIONS ON THE SCHOOLS OF LAW AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, LETTERS AND HUMANITIES, AND PHARMACY. SPECIAL COURSES FOR FOREIGNERS IN LANGUAGE,…

CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATIONS, RIOTS, AND OTHER COLLECTIVE MANIFESTATIONS OF UNREST IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY SHOULD BE VIEWED AS A DEVELOPING SOCIAL MOVEMENT ROOTED IN CERTAIN BACKGROUND CONDITIONS OF INEQUALITY. PREVIOUSLY NEGRO LEADERS ADVOCATED ATTAINING EQUAL RIGHTS WITHIN THE WHITE POWER STRUCTURE, BUT NOW THE "MOTIVATIONAL BASE" FOR…

This handbook is designed to help educators improve the effectiveness of daily lessons. The need for flexibility and the ability to develop meaningful variety are emphasized. Suggestions and guidelines are provided for writing objectives, planning lessons, and selecting instructional methods. Three major categories of teaching/learning…

This paper develops an instructional design process for teaching a time management course to head nurses and supervisors. (The course was conducted at the Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, and was based on "A New Instructional Design Development Process for Instructors of Adults," by Mary Jane Even.) The paper…

The rationale of shared responsibility by the hierarchy and the laity for directing Catholic school and non-school religious educational programs is clearly present in the Vatican Council II documents, which state that members of the laity should be involved in all decisions affecting their lives and that appropriate structures should be…

This journal of educational research contains five papers written by a group of international authors. The first is a study of change in professional attitudes of student teachers that investigated the nature and extent of the change in their professional attitudes, and compared sex differences. The second paper is a technical examination of the…

This resource directory provides a variety of resources that can be useful in making vocational education accessible to all students. The information is organized in four sections. The first section, Organizations, contains a listing of various organizations that offer services to handicapped students and/or educational units. The address, target…

This collection of 80 articles from "CASE Currents," a publication of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, focuses on nine topics in sections entitled: (1) The Association: Building Your Base; (2) Finances: Making Ends Meet; (3) Activities: Bringing 'Em Back; (4) Chapters and Clubs: Reaching Alumni Near and Far; (5)…

While rapid shifts in the composition of student populations and increased governmental demands for accountability have underscored the importance of institutional research (IR) in community college management, most adminstrative literature still conceptualizes IR as a cybernetic, neutral, data collection function initiated in response to the…

This paper reports on a study of the components of political leadership and emphasizes problems of women in attaining positions of political leadership. The authors use the term political leadership to describe the decision-making mechanism within organizations. First they review their survey of the personnel of a large organization. Respondents…

This module on psychosocial assessment is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. A total of six objectives are included to help students utilize knowledge of psychosocial principles which influence human behavior in order to assess alternatives to meet the objectives…