THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE RAPID, PRELIMINARY ACCESS FROM SEVERAL BROAD, SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES TO LITERATURE ON EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION. ENTRIES ARE DIVIDED INTO FIVE CATEGORIES--(1) SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, (2) SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN EDUCATION, (3)…

THIS STUDY IN ORGANIZATIONAL INTERACTION ANALYZES THE STRUCTURAL TIES AND INTERACTIVE RELATIONSHIPS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SUB-ORGANIZATION (EVENING DEGREE PROGRAM) AND ITS PARENT COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION (BROOKLYN COLLEGE). AN EXAMINATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, CORRESPONDENCE, POLICY STATEMENTS, AND MANY INTERVIEWS, QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS, AND…

The most significant development in higher education in the last 20 years is the essentialist-existentialist confrontation--the formal versus the vital. What we decide about this matter will determine what we do with all other developments. Essentialists in education are concerned with what is permanent and rational and contend history is a worthy…

Major elements of the theory of social behavior formulated by Talcott Parsons are applied to a study of organization. The organizational model developed is based on Parsons' four functional imperatives of goal attainment, adaptation, integration, and pattern maintenance. Organizations are regarded as social systems distinguished by different…

Featured in this issue are the English translations of two speeches delivered to graduate students in educational technology at Pontificia Universidade, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Henry Ingle defines educational technology in the traditional as well as modern sense, describes its essential elements, and discusses situations in which the use of…

This paper, written from an organizational perspective, begins with an examination of the deficiencies of knowledge utilization and educational change literature. It suggests the explication of descriptive and heuristic conceptual dimensions as one approach for facilitating a descriptive perspective of knowldge utilization. The efficacy of three…

Innovative training techniques intorduced in response to change in internal structure and external environment of organizations have produced positive results in their management's productivity and effectiveness. A four-year study has been conducted on the use of innovative training techniques by Vanderbilt University's Graduate School or…

This paper addresses three concerns in which both churches and schools have a continuing interest. The first pertains to the nature of professional status and the struggle of both the ministry and of education to gain it. Problems involved in assuming the same are delineated. The second concern deals with economic issues that create difficulties…

Teacher reaction to the institution of a planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS) was surveyed through a structured but open-ended interview in two school districts. Results showed that the mere introduction of new bureaucratic documents for completion by teachers generated only mild negative reaction and no real sense that teacher autonomy…

This two-part monograph attempts to (a) define and describe the teacher center concept, and (b) expand existing informal communication exchanges among teacher centers and teaching colleagues in school districts and colleges of education. Information was elicited from 40 American teacher centers, as well as from people and projects interested in…

Mixed feelings about the state of the art in education and over the proposals for the education of Mexican Americans are expressed. Unfortunately, the majority of college faculty make but few changes, and it is suggested that more change and innovation come from the public schools. Expressions of revolt against the traditional curriculum have not…

This four-part document examines the efforts of the University of Wisconsin/Sears-Roebuck Foundation (UW/SRF) Individually Guided Education (IGE) Teacher Education Project. It is stated that the project was organized to initiate perservice and graduate programs, and thereby to encourage the development of self-renewing systems of education, from…

In August 1970 the Ford Foundation announced the establishment of a Venture Fund grant program to help strengthen and to encourage innovation in undergraduate education throughout the country. Criteria for selection were: (1) evidence of creative programs in the past, (2) the quality of current educational programs and leadership, and (3) the…

The interaction of environmental and structural factors is explored in this case study of innovation in a junior high school. It is argued here that when diffuse or ambiguous environmental pressure for substantial change are combined with a differentiated structure, the frequent result is that organization participants develop vague, symbolic…

The SOLVE story begins with a History of SOLVE and a Statement of Need. The needs of the member schools of SOLVE are nearly all focused on staff development skills. In the section on Staff Development the writers of this project have detailed some expectations for teachers in the individualization of instruction. Also in this section are detailed…