Single- and double-loop organizational learning are discussed in the context of higher education retrenchment. A model of the research university illuminates impediments to internal resource reallocation, program elimination, and integrative leadership, and suggests the need for alternatives to usual efforts to increase efficiency while retaining…

Issues and problems associated with university involvement in public sector activities and the knowledge transfer process are examined. After a brief statement of the state-of-the-art in knowledge transfer, attention is directed to one of the basic issues presented in the literature: the appropriateness and inappropriateness of university…

Differences of perspective exist between the school and the university in terms of all the elements of the teacher training program. From the public school point of view, the teacher training institution makes the decisions about student teaching, and the public schools carry them out. The university viewpoint is often that public school personnel…

A project was conducted to develop a model, strategies, and procedures for introducing change skills instruction into vocational programs. During the course of the year-long project, the following were to be accomplished: development and presentation of a conceptual model that provided a rationale for introducing change skills instruction into…

A case study was made of an interorganizational arrangement involving collaboration between a college of education, intermediary service agencies, and a collection of schools or school districts. The relationships among partners in the arrangement are examined with a focus on linking mechanisms and boundary-spanning roles. The case study is made…

This book is a volume of readings on the theory and practice of the intercultural communication workshop (ICW). The ICW is defined as a short-term program (two and a half days) enabling people from different cultural backgrounds to explore together the nature of culture and communication. It was developed to improve communication among foreign and…

A successful peer support program features senior-level students who have completed their student teaching as support persons and peer teachers for beginning student teachers. Following their student teaching, these peer teachers participate in a seminar to evaluate and synthesize their undergraduate program, including their recent student…

Proceedings of two national working conferences held to discuss career education for the hearing impaired are in this volume. Administrative, counselor, and teacher representatives from schools having experience in career education attended. The report covers issues they addressed following the keynote speeches, appearing in Section 1, given by…

This project was undertaken to develop programs for gifted/talented students in vocational education. The primary considerations were to investigate methods to identify highly creative students and to develop a curriculum model to nurture creativity. A seminar on creativity was held at Glassboro State College for the purpose of assisting in the…

These studies examine the dissemination strategies of ten selected educational innovations that illustrate a number of the problems and solutions that have emerged from past experience. In studying the diffusion of these products and programs, facts have been sought about what happened between conceptualization and implementation. The study tries…

Suggests that a solution to the problem of expensive educational software may be found in public domain software. Included are a definition of public domain software, a discussion of the kinds of software that are in the public domain, ways to obtain such software, and a list of some examples. (PK)

Provides a rationale and overview of the content of the working draft of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, developed by the National Council of Teachers of Matematics. (PK)

Service-learning is a teaching method that engages young people in community problem-solving as part of their education, both in school and out-of-school settings. Service-learning has the potential to be a powerful experiential education practices because it not only fosters effective learning, also prepares the next generation for democratic…

An integrated and multidisciplinary undergraduate core curriculum (COMCORE) was developed and implemented between 1992 and 1995 at the University of Massachusetts Lowell's College of Management. Traditional business core courses were replaced with a year-long integrated program, which simulated a new-product development process, and consisted of…

Based on findings that poorer schools tend to use computers mainly for drill work, while richer ones often use them for other purposes, such as supporting research and creativity, this project aimed to increase the understanding of how to best support teachers in inner-city schools. The project worked intensively with teachers from two inner-city…