Presents two scenarios depicting what conditions will be like in the United States during the next 30 years. Argues that the use of scenarios such as these can play a part in creating an appropriate balance between visionary and pragmatic concerns, between short-range and long-range decision making. (Author/IRT)

Over the past eight years the obstetric and gynecology specialty has applied a system model of instructional planning to the continuum of medical education. The systems model of needs identification, preassessment, instructional objectives, instructional materials, learning experiences; and evaluation techniques directly related to objectives was…

An inventory of site opportunities for use by teachers as a planning aid can increase the utilization of the outdoors in educational experiences. The inventory should be a loose-leaf catalog organized in terms of site accessibility and human density, with a summary of each site. (SB)

Investigates the extent to which Australian teachers participate in curriculum decision making. Evidence is presented from the Curriculum Action Project (CAP) initiated in 1976. Topics discussed include purposes of CAP, methodology, data analysis, and findings. Conclusions are that curriculum development is becoming less centralized but that it is…

Cooperative programs are distinguished by their emphasis on being educational, on providing productive work, and on being an integral part of the curriculum. Implications for program definition and olanning are discussed. (Author/LBH)

Argues that "multicultural education cannot be defined apart from specific communities and is more a matter of local ethnographic description than one which is easily generalized throughout the country." Presents "some anthropological categories which should serve a local educator in defining whether and to what extent a multicultural population…

All the people at Rhodes are optimistic that the humanistic approach of the house concept organization can offer students in large inner city schools the sense of family needed before any educational program can work. (For availability, see EA 507 405.) (Author/IRT)

Discusses the objectives of a proposed national program for the education of migrant workers in France. The first stage, i.e., the teaching of standard French, is described in detail. (Text is in French.) (TL)

The five examples of new directions for liberal education are illustrative rather than exhaustive. They stimulate a dialogue about the goals and strategy for liberal learning, to prepare our educational institutions for serving as effective instruments of a society in radical transition. (LBH)

Pharmacy education is currently undergoing rather dramatic changes in that it is attempting to maintain quality education in the traditional roles of the pharmacist while attempting to educate him for future emerging roles with greater clinical orientation. Implications for the faculty are discussed. (LBH)

Rapid increase in the numbers of pedagogical research personnel has created difficulties with scientific organizational problems and with the content and methods of scientific research. The author indentifies these problems and proposes solutions to them. (Author/AV)

Institutions are going to have to rely more on their own resources in responding appropriately to changes in their own educational environments. Describes models evolved by three independent schools for increasing their capacity to respond intelligently and imaginatively to new challanges and opportunities. (Author/RK)

Summary of policy memorandum submitted by three government ministers is presented. Emphasis is placed on need for greater flexibility, particularly in regard to eliminating the sharp differentiation between universities and higher vocational institutes, to meet growing demand for higher education and to increase employment opportunity. (RW)

The author contends that skillful planning is essential to the orderly development of quality academic veterinary programs and the continued development of the veterinary profession as a useful and viable force in society. Methods for establishing goals and for planning quality programs are discussed. (LBH)

In order to make rational budgetary decisions, higher educational institutions require information on the impact of inflation on their operations. A simple and easily maintainable model from which price indices for a particular institution can be constructed is described. (Author/LBH)