Suggests a rationale and strategy for the systematic development of an integrated body of inductively formulated generalizations with which educators can understand and predict behavior of adults in educational situations. Research-based qualitative theory, indigenous to adult education and capable of indicating dependable and practical guidelines…

The author presents a case-study in which the group process Program Planning Model, a problem solving approach developed at Wisconsin School of Business, was used to help resolve the hostility between a small rural community and a college with a varied student body. (Editor/LF)

The interaction analysis scheme describes the adjustment of the legal system to change. It is a dynamic decision-making process interacting internally among the judicial and legislative subsystems, and, externally with the social environment in the policy-making process. (SE)

Seeing the goal of directed social change as an increase in control over the conditions of existence, or, alternately, as an expansion of resources, a major distinction between theories of social change emerges--those which start with changes in the social conditions in which individuals find themselves versus those which start with changes in…

Leadership style, group composition, and group development are simultaneously quantified through the use of the matrix. It represents an attempt to objectify the art of group therapy. Comment by Richard C. Rank follows. (Author)