Administrators desiring to lead organizations that will adapt and survive in a complex environment like today's public schools need to develop what Karl Weick calls "complicated" understanding of "requisite variety." The law of requisite variety states that a diverse and complicated environment demands similar diversity from…

Justin Morrill College of Michigan State University provides a bachelor of arts degree in liberal education. The purpose of the college is to help students become effective and humane autonomous learners. (Author/PG)

The overall concerns of program design of field experience programs are dealt with, including funding, academic credit, and program administration. (Editor/PG)

This article provides a guide to the utilization of community resources in the teaching of law related subjects and proposes a ten day field trip for student examination of these resources. (DE)

This article describes a free contraceptive clinic run by students in cooperation with the Health Department. (PD)

A Chicago business school offers fashion merchandising as one of several business curriculums that combines on-the-job training and classroom instruction. Instruction is organized around the occupational cluster concept which requires training stations that provide a wide variety of learning experiences. (EA)

The New York Urban Corps places college students in city jobs related to their studies. The students gain experience, earn money and help the city improve service to citizens. Students can also earn actual college credit for their work and many colleges are signing contracts to pay 80 percent of student fees. (DS)

Developmental activities and experiences of the University of Nebraska at Omaha/Omaha Westside Community Schools' five-year teacher preparation program are described. The program is designed to prepare classroom educators in a field-oriented, competency-based program involving a fifth year, partially-paid, pre-teaching experience. Program…

The author discusses what he views as the fundamentally divisive structure of the typical social work curriculum. He strongly recommends the redesigning of the structure of graduate social work education and making certification contingent on successful passage through a substantial academic program and a meaningful internship. (Author/BW)

Attempts, through conducting an internal and external assessment of a specific pre-service education program, to generate some concrete criteria that other university teacher education institutions might utilize in formulating a coherent and logical educational sequence. Results of the study indicate the need for a more field based teacher…

Russian attempts at on-the-job training ended in 1964 due to high cost, lack of teacher commitment, increased student dropouts, and philosophical discord among educators. (DW)

This paper examines the philosophy behind the Pulse Program of Boston College and its attempt at integrating theory and practice and transforming student's paradigms of justice and love. The basic idea of the program, begun in the fall of 1969, is that students receive academic credit for participation in off-campus field projects which have a…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE IS TO HELP THE HOMEMAKING TEACHER PLAN FOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES WHICH EXTEND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM. EXTENDED LEARNING EXPERIENCES ENRICH THE STUDENT'S EDUCATION BY GIVING HER OPPORTUNITIES TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND VALUES TO REAL PROBLEMS IN ACTUAL SITUATIONS. SHE IS ENCOURAGED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AN AREA OF INTEREST…

Teacher education is a stepchild--unwanted by colleges, permissively accepted by schools, allowed in any and all forms by state departments of education, tolerated by the profession. Attempts to reform teacher education have failed to recognize that the social institutions in which teacher education is embedded (schools, colleges, and state…