A clear and present need exists for research in schools leading to defensible, reliable objective data for decision-making, as opposed to research on schools, which is generally limited to experimental methodology leading to "general truths." Reasons for an increasing need for in-school research are: (1) an increasingly sophisticated…

One of five booklets designed to help vocational education teachers and Commission for Manpower Policy reported here reflect the Commission's concern that, classrooms, this booklet discusses the role of medical, social, educational, and unemployment are expected to continue for some time. This booklet's content is presented in four sections. The…

Hans-Georg Gadamer's development of the hermeneutic question points to the need for a hermeneutic consciousness in the United States appropriate for human communication research. Communication studies in the United States have taken a route very different from hermeneutics. They are based on attempts to understand the subjective intentions of a…

This handbook was produced to address some of the questions raised at a workshop for producers, programmers, performers, researchers, and writers in the field of Canadian children's television. Three main areas are covered. The first section provides an indication of some of the information that research can supply for the improvement of…

Although it is not without flaws, decentralization of the school administration--returning decision-making power to school principals and classroom teachers--can contribute to a return to humanistic education and to the elimination of assembly-line education. Researchers, curriculum developers, and educational publishers can help in this movement…

Discusses research which focused on two topics: research conducted for the evaluation of major governmental social programs, and competitive public contracting as the instrumentality for bringing about mobilization of specific resources for that purpose; the need to evaluate public programs has been a major source of expanding demand for social…

The stated purpose of this paper is to discuss some selected aspects and implications of stress among the black "super grade" federal executive population; the term "Black Tax" refers to the experience of black executives who must, in addition to the usual stresses, confront a set of personalized social strains which grow out of their "blackness"…

The stated purpose of this paper is to examine critically problems and proposed solutions related to developing research activities at predominantly black colleges, with the focus being primarily on four-year colleges and universities; research is discussed, it is stated, from the perspective of the behavioral sciences. (Author/JM)

Reviews previous attempts to achieve comparability in the comparative study of social mobility. Existing cross-national comparisons of mobility are said to be invalid. A scale is proposed as a basis for valid cross-national comparisons. Its properties and achieved results are discussed. (AM)

Abbreviated version of the atuhor's EdD dissertation (Boston University, School of Education, May 19, 1968).

Paper prepared for the International Association of University Professors of English, Dublin, August 19-24, 1968.

Despite the fact that only a small percentage of eligible senior citizens takes advantage of the opportunity, increasing numbers are enrolling in college and university classes. Not only do elderly college students have to overcome the long lapse of years since they were students, but age and maturity typically cause physical and psychological…