Discusses variables and parameters involved in scientific research to set up guidelines for research workers. Indicates that flexibility, perseverance, and self-awareness are necessary traits for researchers to function in a universe of continuous change. (CC)

Today's white researchers are perhaps counterproductive in black communities not because they are white, but because they are poorly trained: equally if not more important are the values which the researcher acquires as a result of his professional training. (Author/JM)

The white professional researcher is held responsible for the creation and refinement of the social conditioning techniques employed to establish and maintain dependent and acquiescent behavior in black people; dominant emphasis placed on why blacks permit whites to do what they do.'' (Author/JM)

Article concentrates on historians who are becoming proficient in utilizing computer technology for research purposes. (RK)

The relationship between susceptibility to group pressure and the racial composition of small groups was explored in this study of 280 fourth, fifth and sixth graders. On tests of perceptual judgment, Negro children showed more conformity than whites, and girls more than boys. (Author/NH)

Some guidelines offered to law schools showing interest in law-related research studies based on the investigation of human behavior. (IR)

Inter-university mobility of teachers, researchers and professional administrators must be widened geographically beyond European countries. (IR)

This paper summarizes findings of studies about factors that encourage teacher education faculty to produce research throughout their careers. Steps schools of education can take to foster research interests in graduate students and young faculty members are suggested. (PP)

A survey of research administrators reports perceived factors enabling interdisciplinary research in agricultural experiment stations. Among the issues discussed are the need for such research and incentives to individual scientists, departments, and institutions to undertake research projects. (MSE)

The ability of a university to do research free from undue interference is discussed in light of two court cases: Buchanan vs. American Motors Corp. and Dow Chemical Co. vs. Allen. Their principal significance lies in sparing nonparty researchers from the discovery process notwithstanding the acknowledged breadth of discovery. (MLW)

This article addresses the issue of what the process of participating in educational criticism feels like. Certain intellectual and emotional pleasures and perplexities that were confronted by the author while taking part in an educational criticism project are discussed. (CJ)

This paper presents reflections and reconsiderations of notions about educational criticism. Several issues about the process of educational criticism need to be explored: (1) the metaphor of criticism; (2) exemplifying and elaborating methods for criticism; and (3) exploring the critic's role. (CJ)

Graphical representations of nominations and citations of colleagues in seven scientific fields--information science, human systems management, future studies, general systems, topology and differential geometry, and polymer chemistry--are presented. Conomination analysis and cocitation analysis are compared as techniques to study structure of…