The relationship of the Land Grant College Complex to agribusiness is discussed in this book. Major areas include an overview of the Land Grant College Complex research and policy; the agribusiness-agrigovernment relationship; and the Extension Service. The recommendations of the Task Force called for: (1) a full-scale public inquiry into the land…

The growing complexity of society has resulted in increased attention to the problem of knowledge production and utilization. This review of the scholarship pertaining to this subject traces the topic in its most general sense. Three fields of interest have received attention from researchers: 1) the relation of research to practice; 2) the nature…

This report examines a series of general models that represent the process of merging records from separate files when it becomes essential to inhibit identifiability of records in at least one of the files. Models are illustrated symbolically by flow diagrams, and examples of each variation are taken from the social sciences. These variations…

In 1970 the National Center for Educational Research and Development (CER) reviewed United States Office of Education (USOE) Bureau of Research policies over the previous 15 years, and as a result of this review, initiated the Directed Research Program. This program will concentrate funds in four areas of high educational significance and will be…

Research is needed to determine whether American Indian students really benefit from counseling as perceived by non-Indians, the nature of current methods of formal and informal counseling of Indians, effective forms of counseling for Indians, the relationship between Indians' self-esteem and employment, factors affecting vocational…

Resistance to educational programs and economic development in American Indian communities comes from the Indians themselves as a direct result of their cultural attitudes and values. Much research has been done in the area of Indian education; a corresponding effort has been made in the area of economic development. No efforts have been made to…

After summarizing the development of ecology from botanical and zoological studies to a study of entire biological communities, the history of wool growing in England and the development of nomadism on the Asian steppes and the North American prairies is described. These examples are interpreted ecologically and used to illustrate the theses that…

This paper is a comment on the need for review and reanalysis of the accumulated research in social studies as a guide to future efforts to design useful and desirable social studies curricula. Several alternative models for social studies educators are noted. These serve as guides to possible directions for research. The problems of communication…

The general objective of this dissertation was to study, observe, and analyze the phenomena of social power in 5 Iowa communities. The specific objectives were to define a social system model, a social power model, and the methodology used for the delineation of persons perceived to be power actors; to determine the extent to which the power…

The papers in this volume are directed toward the problems of delineating and developing programmatic, directed, or targeted research and development. Because the authors represent a variety of research and development contexts both in and outside the educational system, the report is broadly representative of current thinking on programmatic…

The author's main concern is to provide a research format which will supply a unitary conception of communication. The wide range of complex topics and variety of concepts embraced by communication theory and the rather disparate set of phenomena encompassed by communication research create this need for a unitary study approach capable of linking…

Although the Ceylonese Education Department based its revision of school science curricula on a 1963 UNESCO report, little use has been made of members of the universities. This has resulted in courses containing much confusion and absurdity, at least in biology. An alternative biology project was established by the Ceylon Association for the…

Behavioral objectives are defined accepting Mager's definition, research dealing with them is reviewed and synthesized, and recommendations for further research are made. Each section is divided into four categories: (1) educational significance of behavioral objectives, (2) evaluation through behavioral objectives, (3) student awareness of and…

The social science literature, dealing with air quality, up to mid-1970 is reviewed and synthesized in five separately authored chapters, one for each of sociology, psychology, political science, law and economies. In addition to suggesting what each discipline can contribute to the solution of the air pollution problem, gaps in the literature are…

The two conference papers in this publication examine the historical origins of the subordination of women to men. In the first paper, "Unraveling the Problem of Origins: An Anthropological Search for Feminist Theory," Rayna Reiter reviews what is known and what is not known at the present time and provides a feminist critique of the gaps in our…