The University of Minnesota has pioneered in establishing future-oriented courses and curricula and now ranks as one of the world's leading centers of future studies. Article describes the Minnesota experience and offers suggestions to other institutions that want to futurize themselves. (Author)

Describes a telephone teaching program by which trainers find they can effectively handle a class hundreds or thousands of miles away. (Author/RK)

This paper focuses on the simulation games developed at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., which deal with a variety of social processes or situations. The paper, given before game play, identifies some of their characteristic features and discusses the educational implementational implications of the ways in which they are seen to…

This discussion of a method for improvement of interpersonal classroom relationships provides a vehicle by which a peer group and a teacher can work together toward solution of common concerns. (JC)

The critical phase between the time of commitment and visible progress is reviewed and its chances of success scrutinized. Objectives and responsibilities involving government, business (industrial and agricultural), communities, conservation groups, and citizens for coordinated efforts are assessed. Included is the 1973 E Q Index examining all…

The role of division of whole numbers in problem solving and the implications for teaching division computation are examined. Deleting the teaching of division facts, and obtaining solutions by using multiplication facts, is advocated. (DT)

Study showed that the conservation responses acquired through participation in a problem-solving group are enduring and generalizable. (Authors)

The classroom teacher, regardless of the teaching area, can utilize debate as a device to help the student achieve objectives such as critical thinking, problem solving, the enhancing of self-concept and the art of communicating. (Author/CB)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether some major aspects of children's role-playing behavior can be coded reliably and whether role-playing behavior is related to role-problem characteristics and individual variables. (Authors)

Explains how mathematics might be more efficiently used in educational administration. Reviews some recent developments reported in the social science literature on the uses of mathematics in political science, sociology, and economics. Provides some illustrations of how these developments could lead to similar applications in both the practice…

Results indicated that the anxiety treatment in this study was not significantly related to level of intelligence; a significant Sex by Anxiety interaction for both simple and complex problem solving was indicated. (Authors/CB)