In order to decide what materials, methods, media, activities, and evaluative techniques are appropriate, the teacher must first define the instructional objectives of the course. (JS)

This paper presents a hypothetical school, along with suggestions concerning the teacher-curricular composition that would help operationalize Maslow's theory in the schools. The aim and objectives of the hypothetical school seek to reduce the animal in man and to produce truly human beings. (Author)

Article gives several alternative responses educators might presumably take in the face of the deschooling argument. (Author)

In the opening address at the Golden Jubilee Conference of the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education (BACIE), BACIE's chairman reviews the slow, belated growth of interest in manpower development in Britain, and discusses the Association's present function and future role. (LY)

"The purpose of this paper has been...to advocate one particular use of prediction, namely: to assess the validity of educational operations, and thereby facilitate the achievement of stated instructional outcomes. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association as part of a symposium on the Prediction of…

Explains how the observation of overt behavior can be used as an indicator of knowledge of concepts or other internal changes in learning. (Author/DR)

Educators need to come to grips with the question of what ought to be in this world instead of merely drifting with the tides of change. (CK)

A criticism of the Tyler approach to learning which states that one must set up goals and rigidly work toward them. The author feels setting objectives restricts the curriculum; predetermined behavior should be the only acceptable kind; ends should arise from teaching activity. (Author/AF)

The author considers the question of whether technology will cause humanization or dehumanization in the schools. He concludes that we can not stop tecchnology; we can only give it direction and purpose. (Author/MS)