Because we are specialists in teacher education, because we are practitioners pragmatically testing our decisions from day to day, we are not only required to understand new ideas relevant to our activities and to test them in practice, we are responsible too for making ourselves felt in important places on critical matters. There are influential…

This book describes the various aspects of the film industry and the many jobs related to filmmaking, stressing that no "formula" exists for finding a successful career in the film industry. Chapters provide information on production, writing for film, cinematography, editing, music, sound, animation and graphics, acting and modeling, the "unsung…

Many organizations assign responsibility for planning, administering, and coordinating programs of training for their employees or members to a specialist whose title is usually director of education or training. Not much is known, however, about the process by which that role emerges. By studying the way training evolves in organizations where…

A three-part, model certification scheme for school media personnel is presented. The first part is a discussion of the planning of state certification designs including point-of-entry into the profession, continuing development of competencies, and basic entry-level competencies. The candidate assessment process is discussed in the second part…

This document is the first of three volumes presenting essays from three schools of thought regarding learning. Volume one consists of readings from psychologists, philosophers, and learning theorists concerning the view that the learner is a product primarily of environmental factors. The list of essays includes the following: (a) "Ideas and…

Membership in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters is listed by individuals and by institutional associates, including school systems and colleges, community corporations, state authorities, and commercial and manufacturing firms. Titles, addresses, and affiliations are provided for individual members. A telephone directory of…

A field study was conducted to ascertain how leaders in 3 small rural New Mexico communities viewed the approaches of a community resource development (CRD) specialist during the critical initial phase of the CRD process. A log of approaches was kept by the specialist to record the significant approaches employed and the leader contacts made.…

This paper summarizes planning for research on Work Unit APSTRAT, which deals with the development and testing of training strategies appropriate for various levels of aptitude in operational field training for a variety of military occupational specialty courses. There will be active self-paced individual instruction involving such alternative…

Skills needed by the elementary school pupil personnel worker may be divided into the following areas: (1) counseling, (2) consultation, and (3) coordination. The counseling role can be of value not only to children, but also parents and teachers. Consultation is the process used to help teachers and administrators become better diagnosticians of…

This report describes the proceedings of a conference on the role of the speech pathologist. Four major questions were discussed: (1) the identification of the problem of providing programs for language handicapped children; (2) the current role of the speech pathologist in the management of programs for the language handicapped; (3) the future…

"La Chute de la Maison Usher" is a film adaptation by Jean Epstein of two stories by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Oval Portrait." This film was typical of Epstein's artistic preoccupation with the ambivalence of reality as expressed in fantasy or surrealism, in qualities of movement, and…

The 12th annual summer symposia sponsored by the School of Library Science of Syracuse University sought to clarify the effect of the American Library Association's Standards for School Media Programs on libraries and education in general. The symposia papers examined the point of view of school librarians, audiovisual specialists, and public and…

The papers in this edited volume on the directions in mass communication research deal with two broad questions: What is the current state of knowledge with respect to the area in question? And what might be the most fruitful directions for future research? The nine articles include: (1) an attempt to structure the field of mass communication; (2)…

Reconstructing media research so that generalizable knowledge can be produced requires an increased emphasis on attributes of media which interact with individual differences to effect learning. In order to accomplish this, media researchers must make a distinction between research "with" media and research "on" media. Privious efforts to…

This auteuristic analysis of Hollywood filmmaker Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) includes critical commentary, interviews, and a biographical chronology. Six separate articles discuss various facets of Tashlin's films, ranging from the artistic processes involved to critical evaluations of the films. In two interviews, Tashlin elaborates on his…