This third volume, one of the products in the Nursing Curriculum Project series "Pathways to Practice", presents the results of an extended examination of three social elements that impinge directly upon the nursing profession: feminism, higher education, and health care. These elements are fully discussed in separate papers (presented as…

This fourth volume in the series "Pathways to Practice" presents the heart of the Southern Regional Education Board's Nursing Curriculum Project, which was designed to (1) develop a set of assumptions about societal systems that impinge on the environments of nursing, (2) determine broadly the future direction of health care delivery patterns, (3)…

The preparation of appropriate and relevant instructional materials is essential to effective instruction. Instructional materials, usually in the form of a comprehensive course of study or training plan, should be based on a carefully planned, organized, and conducted analysis procedure. This analysis procedure may be used for the identification…

Contents include an introduction to information systems (basic concepts and life-cycle); development of an information system (design, implementation, testing, and conversion); operation (evaluation and maintenance, quality control, and economics); and case studies of such systems at the New University of Lisbon, Bath University, Laval University…

A review of the literature on the American educational system as well as results from the author's national survey on curriculum articulation provide the basis for a proposal that would restructure elementary, secondary, and higher education in the United States. The proposed system would offer all American citizens two free years of college level…

System analysis offers the teacher a significant organizational device for studying society and social problems in the classroom. System analysis can be used directly to describe and understand the relationships and interactions between individuals, bridging the distance between learning conceptually and learning directly from personal experience.…

Numerous criticisms of college social studies methods courses have generated various reform efforts. Three of these reforms are examined, including competency-based teacher education, the value analysis approach to teacher education, and the human relations approach to teacher education. Competency-based courses develop among future teachers…

This "Yearbook" is a compilation of 34 articles that represent "state-of-the-art" thought in educational administration as of 1997. The yearbook is organized in accordance with a knowledge-base outline that was developed through repeated surveys of professors of educational administration and practicing administrators. The…