A discussion of managerial retraining in order to further administrative reorganization and improvement of management by the former Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, an organizational development consultant, and an educator with an interest in organizational development. (Author/JM)

Reports an in-depth participant observation of a rural American commune located in a canyon in Northwestern United States in the summer of 1971, focusing on the internal dynamics of the commune; values and beliefs are viewed as the primary focus of integration in addition to common definitions, solidarity, and other factors. (JM)

Studies of human problem solving have traditionally used deterministic tasks that require the execution of a systematic series of steps to reach a rational and optimal solution. Most real-world problems, however, are characterized by uncertainty, the need to consider an enormous number of variables and possible courses of action at each stage in…

The case for the professionalization of teaching rests on the assumption that it will improve the quality of teaching carried out in our schools. The study reported here sought to investigate the validity of this assumption. (Author/RK)

A medical-surgical nursing course was reorganized using seven key concepts (chronicity, mobility, body image, rehabilitation, acuteness, invasiveness, and depression of function) as a teaching base. Emphasis was given to nursing roles, interventions, and learning transfer to varied nursing situations. (EA)

Sex role stereotyping still determines teacher expectations--thereby helping to determine what boys and girls do and learn. (JH)

The goals of visual literacy experiences are to give the student skill in "reading" visuals and in expressing himself and communicating through visuals. (JH)

Investigated were the effects of stimulus complexity on habituation of the skin conductance response component of the orienting responses in 16 nonretarded and retarded male adults. (Author)

The basic aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the effects of examiner (or teacher) expectancy on performance over perception tasks related to the visual arts. (Author)

This paper endeavored to investigate the perspectives of both social studies teachers and social studies teacher-candidates with regard to various components of the teacher's role in the civic education of secondary school students. (Author/RK)

Discussed how the teacher of child psychology could help students teaching growth and development. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the ethnic and racial awareness, self-identification, and ethnic group preference in Anglo, Black, and Chicano preschool and third-grade children. (Author)

Evaluated was sequencing as a visual ability often deficient in dyslexic children through comparison of two methods of teaching reading with two third grade classes of girls. (DB)