Leadership among educational executives is necessary to facilitate educational progress. Yet, leadership is rendered relatively inaccessible. Its absence in practice is as common as its presence in the rhetoric of education. As leadership becomes definable and schools and communities accept it, the illusion may be transformed into a salvation.…

The authors assert that universities make four unique contributions to the education of teachers by providing (1) reflection on educational issues; (2) multiple perspectives; (3) intellectual diversity; and (4) research. These contributions are discussed. (MT)

Discusses the management of developing and transmitting academic culture through the educational institutions in the United States. (PG)

The reports cover the adult literary programs in Himachal Pradesh, the Madras Regional Council for Adult Education (AE), the AE institution Lik Shikshan Vibhag, the Bikaner AE Association, the Varanasi Council of literacy and AE, the AE department (extension) of Rajasthan, the Indore Workers Institute, and the Ministry of Education's Directorate…

Statement by the Executive Director of the Adult Education Association before the Delegate Assembly, November 1972. (Editor)

The article points out the significant role hospitals can play in the prevention of drug abuse through a deep involvement within the schools. The hospital can also provide education and training programs for those charged with the responsibility of working with drug involved individuals (Author)

Brigham Young University, Fort Lewis College, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona State University were studied in terms of (1) their history and involvement in American Indian education, (2) the size of their Indian student enrollment, and (3) the offering of a bachelor's degree program. (FF)

This paper questions the assumption that education itself is a good undertaking. (Author)

The difficulty an individual who has been denied access to library material faces in obtaining a remedy in the courts dictates that the library profession go on record against all forms of institutional censorship or unreasonable restrictions on use of library materials. (Author/JS)

As President of NCSS, the author urges the membership to accept the goal of social studies as education for citizenship, and to make the necessary commitment in that direction as a professional organization. (JB)

Seeks to clarify the rhetoric about learning organizations; suggests that the term has two senses: an organization that learns and an organization that promotes learning. Asserts that an educational institution's priority is the learning needs of students, who are not analogous to other organization's human resources. (SK)

Discusses the use of metaphor during the first 50 years of the modern American library movement in the hopes of inspiring one another, recruit newcomers to the profession, and to influence outsiders. Examines references to the library in terms of more visible institutions such as schools, universities, the church, and business and industry.…

The number of countries involved in conflict appears to be growing. Global awareness of these conflicts grows as the increasing use of weblogs and mobile phone videos, alongside traditional technologies, demonstrates the day-to-day effects of conflict on those caught up in it. International organisations are drawn into negotiating "peace…