Presents a model for a proposed allied health system which incorporates three dimensions: (1) education and training, (2) a social health dyad, and (3) service delivery. (MU)

Asserts that programs to prepare educational administrators need upgrading if they are to maintain credibility and survive. A systemic model is proposed as a guide to the revision of such programs, and its application at the University of Kansas is discussed. (WM)

A systems approach model to counselor education is justified and elaborated by Steven Zifferblatt. Responses to his remarks are made by T. Antoinette Ryan, Donald Blocker and Patricia Wolleat, Lawrence Brammer, Ray Hosford and Norman Stewart. A rejoinder by the original author also follows. (CJ)

Curriculum management stresses the identification of purpose and content involving essentially what'' questions; instructional development deals with strategies and techniques of teaching that attend basically to questions of how.'' This article deals with a description of an appropriate instructional development system. (Authors/CB)

Makes informal analyses of the method by which decisions in higher education are now made and of how that method compares to the systematic planning procedures so often proposed. Suggests how the systems approach can be applied in higher education and indicates what processes would be involved. Concludes with a discussion of a few of the problems…

Foundational studies should be focused on the critical, comparative and comprehensive evaluation of socio-educational systems, educational theories and educational policies. (Author)

Points out findings that students are motivated quite highly if a systems approach is used for instruction. Data presented reveal overall increased participation by students in instructional program. (PS)

Discusses the need for organizing concepts with which planners can formulate goals or policies to deal with social problems. The literature on social systems is reviewed and five models are identified. Illustrations of planning problems to which each model would apply are provided, together with a discussion of the model's relative advantages and…

Students receive their education in science from four initial sources: the scientific community, the observers of science, direct contact with natural phenomena, and non-science influences. It is possible that in the non-science influences which have been given only incidental consideration lie some of the major inhibitions of curriculum…

A youth guidance system that is designed to provide students with all the information possible to help them make the right choice of goals and to deal effectively with their problems as they arise is presented. (CK)