Reviews three types of contributions Coolie Verner has made to adult education: (1) defining adult education as a discipline/field, (2) classifying the adult education process, and (3) studying adult education as an innovation to be diffused and adopted. Verner's writings in these areas are summarized, analyzed, and assessed. (Author/CSS)

This paper discusses the utility of integrated systematic design methods for promoting educational research and development projects. It argues that procedures pertinent to the integrated methodologies of research-evaluation, monitoring-formative evaluation, and planning-research can be successfully utilized to promote the execution and completion…

Summarizes the basic concepts and principles of visual literacty, sketches the technocultural background in which it is founded, and suggests some ideas about how it might be put into practice by educators. (Author/JEG)

Questions are posed concerning the "back to basics" movement and rural schools. (KR)

Discusses the four papers from the Second International Learning and Technology Congress that are included in this issue. These papers provide a theoretical and experimental background for technology and verbal processing, and suggest a number of sensory and learning aids designed to benefit deaf learners. (JEG)

The author discusses the "concepts approach" to physical education (helping students learn WHY physical education is important, HOW to exercise properly, and WHAT individual needs must be met) and presents samples of how concepts programs have been implemented in the recent past. (MJB)

Suggestology, or SALT (suggestive-accelerative learning and teaching), employs the age-old power of suggestion in the classroom. Its ability to squeeze a semester's learning into as little as two weeks is evaluated. (Author/RK)

A workable model for the English curriculum in the 1980s must reflect balance and integration and allow for the benefits of both bigness and smallness. (DD)

The author describes the Cuban escuelas en el campo (schools in the countryside) and discusses them as models for developing nations. (IRT)

One method, among others, to improve the school curriculum is having teachers and supervisors visit innovative school-class settings. These innovative schools must exemplify quality teaching-learning situations. (Author)

The Thaler System encompasses economic incentives for students and an extensive student government system that includes a legal system. (IRT)

Essential leadership skills for curriculum developers are identified. (GW)

The process of change in education, if reform is to reflect the educator's true intent, relies on the adequate development and systematic implementation of ideas. Examines what is, or should be, the context for such change. (Author/RK)

The instructional potential of telegames is considered, and media specialists are urged to contribute to planning for the educational use of these devices. (STS)

A program of education is outlined that would provide individual growth experiences radically different from those that take place in the classroom. (JD)