The growing interest in the anthropological approach to educational research raises some issues about the nature of educational anthropology and traditional educational research. The nature of these two methods of inquiry is different in that anthropology demands that the researcher use the field as the bases for theoretical, methodological, and…

Three experimental groups of employees in a large telephone company received either extrinsic feedback, intrinsic feedback, or extrinsic and intrinsic feedback in addition to goal-setting, while a fourth group received only goal-setting instructions. (Available from Subscription Section, APA, 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036;…

Crisis intervention studies conducted in suicide prevention/crisis intervention programs, in psychiatric settings, and with surgical patients are critically evaluated, and the methodological shortcomings of studies in each of these settings are discussed. Available from: Order Department, American Psychological Association, Inc., 1200 Seventeenth…

Reviews the contributions of field studies conducted in the areas of educational administration and policy, including organizational processes, education politics, and leadership and decision making. Suggests new directions in educational policy that field research could explore. (GC)

Reports on experiences and insights gained from organizations in the Philippines and Thailand that are involved in various aspects of nonformal education and that are also involved in discussions with people about what is being done and why. (JOW)

Offers guidelines to administrators of individual mental health centers contemplating field surveys. Emphasizes methods that maintain the integrity and quality of the data collected but still minimize costs. Details the types of existing resources available to local agencies. (BH)

Argues that ethnography, because of its holistic, cross-cultural perspective, provides an inquiry process by which open-ended questions can be asked that will result in new insights about American schooling. Discusses why traditional ethnography is inadequate to the study of schools and sketches first steps of the field work inquiry process. (CMG)

Problems of conducting organizational development evaluations identified by 101 organizational development practitioners were clustered into categories of methodological, administrative, and miscellaneous problems. (Author/MLF)

The English town of Clevelode, population of approximately 700, has solved most of the U.S. social problems. The village is not perfect, but in many ways it stands as a lesson for everyone. This small community is probably fairly temporary. People can live in Clevelode and commute to work in the city of Worcester or to the urban center of Malvern.…

The notion of participation of people in their own development has been increasingly gaining momentum as a means of human empowerment and development. Many development scholars and experts have argued that people are the real source of information in their own development, and that their participation is essential across all phases of a…

Article considered the intricacies in designing a field study in sociology. (RK)

Techniques for sketching landscapes, drawing blackboard maps of the eastern hemisphere, and dramatizing world wind belts are described. (KM)

A description of a field experience to demonstrate some basic principles concerning the geologic transport of beach sands. (Author/CP)

Organized field trips in the tropics proved to be an effective way to gather new information about ferns. The areas of study covered were: systematics and ecology, cytology and gametophyte structure, and morphogenesis and physiology. (PS)