Article outlines the roles and responsibilities of educational researchers and educators as well to promote cooperation between the school and the researchers. (GB)

Three variables in the process of educational change are examined as they relate to media specialists: timeliness, trade-off processes, and the nature of responses to demands for change. New American Association of School Librarians/Association for Educational Communications and Technology guidelines for media specialists, published in "Media…

Presents a conceptual scheme by which educators can evaluate the need for their roles to change as the educational sphere changes. Specifically examines consensus of learning resource specialists about changes in their role. (AV)

Roles in further education colleges, at various levels of the management structure, are in flux. For the people involved in this process of transformation, the situation can appear ambiguous, unsettling and unclear. This places an imperative upon colleges to deal with the process of change effectively, and to help those involved to make sense of…

Argues that concepts of the elementary school principalship as essentially a role couched in the vagaries of administrative and instructional leadership seems to be questionable under the scrutiny of research. (RJ)

Outlining the premises of role theory applicable to the dean's role, this paper attempts to analyze the dean's role from several perspectives. It recommends ethnographic research for a true understanding of the dean's role and as a means of hastening the reform of education. Recent studies of the deanship, the professoriate, and schools of…

Because the meanings of "process" and "education" are extremely connotative and ambiguous, this book was designed to develop an explicit set of goals, definitions, assumptions, justifications, and a rationale for the practice of process education. It is concerned with the practical, logical, and philosophical foundations of process education…