Many things happen when human services education is a part of the school. Not only do the students and recipient institutions benefit, the school and community feel the good effects, too. (Editor)

This paper reports use of field work in a university family course in which most students were not social science majors. (Editor)

A discussion of the issues related to the acceptability of off-campus experiential learning and suggestions for dealing with them. (Editor)

The study reported here investigated the relationship between early field experiences and the concerns of students preparing to become teachers. (CS)

This paper describes an educational experiment with the placement of second year students in field settings in the United Kingdom. (Editor/KE)

With the conceptual model designed around the urban public and private school setting and its specific teaching strategies, this field-based teacher preparation program covers appropriate methodology in reading/language arts, social studies, and science. Students are afforded the opportunity of integrating content, theory, and practice into a…

Since the teaching force for the 1970s will be predominantly stable, the need of teacher education for the future is not preservice education but inservice. The primary responsibility for inservice education is with public school educators. But this is in no way a disclaimer that other agencies have responsibility. Traditional methods, such as a…

In this study 65 preservice physical education teachers were randomly assigned to a variable, semi-variable, and non-variable field experience group. All subjects completed observational, instructional, and student teaching field experiences. The variable group completed experiences in urban and suburban schools at different educational levels.…

Public service internships not only provide a means for college students to help government get its job done, they also teach the student a good deal about the real world of urban affairs. This report covers the Urban Corps approach to providing a college student internship program in local government. Such a program is based on 3 principles: (1)…

This report represents the work of a student or students in the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Student Internship in Economic Development (SIED) program. The objective of this program is to relate the resources of institutions of higher education to economic development organizations in such a way as to: (1) assist economic…

This paper is the result of a limited analysis of the WICHE internship program directed by the Urban Studies Center at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. The methodology used for analyzing the internship program was carried out primarily through the use of 2 questionnaires. One was used for the interns and the other for…

During 1971, Carl Goebel prepared for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) a report entitled "Evaluation of the WICHE Intern Program in the State of Oregon." In this evaluation he pointed out a number of the deficiencies, as well as the strengths of the program. In concluding, Goebel made a number of suggestions…