A report on a conference titled "Communication Policy and Planning for Education and Development." A systems approach to communications planning is outlined. (BD)

Discusses the impossibility of organizational change and how that impacts the role of human performance technology. Five components of technology are described, including systems thinking; personal learning and mastery; mental models; building shared vision; and team learning. (LRW)

Discusses systemic thinking and how it can help educational technologists better cope with change. Highlights include major societal paradigm shifts, differences between the industrial age and the information age that affect education, features of an information-age educational system, and changing uses of media and technology. (LRW)

Discusses the redesign of educational systems and presents a designing matrix to help select boundaries of a new system. A conceptual framework for exploring educational system boundaries is described, systems models are discussed, and the three cells of the matrix are explained. (LRW)

Individual mastery of knowledge, skills, and abilities is no longer a sufficient guarantee of competent practice. Behavioral and cross-professional capabilities for effective teamwork should also be considered in the design, delivery, and evaluation of continuing professional education. (SK)

A professional practice model is a system that supports control over nursing care. It has five subsystems: values, professional relationships, delivery model, management approach, and compensation and rewards. Comparison of five health facilities provides guidelines for planning, implementing and evaluating a professional practice model. (SK)

Describes a system's approach to literacy requiring a continuum of differentiated interventions and core instruction for all students in California. (PKP)

The Systems Theory Framework of Career Development, first developed in 1992, aims to demonstrate interconnections among career theories. A systems theory perspective enables career practitioners to choose what is most relevant to individual client needs and circumstances and provides a mechanism for working with diverse clients. (Contains 33…

This study of six infants (three with blindness, three sighted) identified an underlying sequence in the development of crawling, with the ability to reach for an object and to move to or from the sitting position being the two most critical precursors to the actual execution of crawling. Infants with blindness had a lower frequency of activity…

Discusses knowledge management and identifies four challenges to knowledge integration in virtual team environments: constraints in transactive memory, insufficient mutual understanding, failure in sharing and retaining contextual knowledge, and inflexibility of organizational ties. Proposes a knowledge management systems approach to meet these…

Four theoretical streams--contexualism/ecology, systems theory, realism/constructivism, and chaos theory--contributed to a theory of individuals as complex, unique, nonlinear, adaptive chaotic and open systems. Individuals use purposive action to construct careers but can make maladaptive and inappropriate choices. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)

Summarizes the history of North American correctional education three ways: chronologically, according to schools of thought or paradigm changes, and from a systems development perspective. Contains 28 references and biographical sketches of leaders of schools of thought. (SK)

Defines the basic terms of system, systems, systematic, and systemic and then uses these terms to build an alphabetical glossary categorizing and defining words or phrases applied to systems thinking. (Contains 20 references.) (PKP)

Looks at the Marine Corps approach to training in light of the history of corporations borrowing heavily from military training tradition. (JOW)

Describes the perception-action approach and the dynamic systems approach to motor development. Discusses the importance of understanding the development of the brain and the importance of longitudinal studies of motor development. (RJC)