The growth and development of infants and children is examined from the perspective of parenting. The author sees the family as the first educational delivery system for the child and presents concrete suggestions to aid educators and mental health specialists. (Author)

With new knowledge (obtained from tools that can help to predict the future) and basic assumptions about society and education, educational planners must begin to plan for the future. Futurists and educators should compare approaches and plans for the near future and beyond. (CJ)

Discusses development education as an educational process aimed at preparing people for participation in change and examines the implications for disarmament education. Development education is interpreted to include adult literacy education as well as a system of spreading basic concepts and encouraging and developing local initiatives. (DB)

The value of television as an educational tool lies in the ability of educators to make television more active and less passive. Examples of "acTiVision" are presented to demonstrate the potential of existing technological possibilities. (JMF)

The author examines some of the lesser-known private and proprietary schools of late Victorian England which, by academic success and by athletic prowess, strove to emulate the great "public schools." Reasons for some successes and failures and contributions of certain headmasters are noted. (Author/SJL)

Basic trends and developments of educational planning activities are reviewed. Using a cross-analysis of various classifications of educational planning activities and some basic theoretical assumptions about the inherent aspects of the educational process, a conceptual frame of reference is developed. (Author/RL)

Sport sociology as an academic specialty and its stages of development are described. Problems confronting future developments in sport sociology include critical mass, academic status, and ideological orientation, both in physical education and in sociology. (CJ)

Discusses such potential uses for the computer in employee training programs as management support for training and performance, training project control, improved design and development methods, training program implementation and delivery, and program evaluation, revision, and maintenance. (JEG)

The question of the legitimacy of academic learning is considered, and suggestions for uniting valuation and scholarship are proposed. The need to demonstrate the values of what is learned is stressed as an integral part of scholarship. (PHR)

Members of the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools are determined to learn from one another and so stress association rather than competition. By extending membership to very new schools and to schools quite different from "traditional" independent schools, the association has discovered new approaches, skills, and…

This description of a project to review computer impact on society and computer literacy courses and materials includes the effort to gather and maintain a comprehensive bibliography, an analysis of the literature currently included, a set of objectives for courses, and future plans for refinement. (Author/JEG)

In an information society, a computer literate populace is as important as energy is to an industrial society. Other nations have begun the task of restructuring their systems to include computers and unless the United States begins soon, the next crisis in American education will be the computer literacy crisis. (Author)

"The Search for a Scientific Profession: Library Science Education in the U.S. and Canada," which professes that American library education has not shown a constant improvement, is seen to be an unscholarly work containing unsupported generalizations, quotations out of context, unsatisfactory methodology, and which fails to utilize more…

Theoretical issues concerning change and the phenomenon of resistance are highlighted in this analysis of opposition observed during in-service training of high school and junior high school counselors. Behavioral examples are examined with reference to principles found in current change theory for the would-be change agent. (Author)

Examines conceptual problems related to the implementation of higher education reform, including those concerning the relations between planned and unplanned change, the gap between formal reform goals and actual results, and the link between policy formulation and policy implementation. Provides specific examples of these problems in higher…