This discussion of the explosion of knowledge focuses on how schools must organize their curriculum to be conducive to change. Ten guidelines are suggested for providing new learning methods and for successfully dealing with a changing society. (LRW)

Presents theoretical perspectives of change of Benne, Chin, Lewin, and Rogers, and draws out strategies that designers of games, simulations, and workshops may find useful. Highlights include rational/empirical, normative/re-educative, and power/coercive strategies; Lewin's force-field model; and Rogers' stage model. (MBR)

Americans, who are appropriately vociferous in critiquing education generally and the schools particularly, need to come to fundamental agreement about what schools should do. In reaching that agreement, one group of Americans, the professional educators, has a particular responsibility, though not an exclusive one, to participate in that…

Describes problems in faculty evaluation and performance appraisal and presents assumptions and features of newer alternative faculty evaluation systems. A strategy for developing systems which is based on organizational change theory is discussed. This system involves use of committees and structured phases for faculty input. (MBR)

Common ideas for the improvement of teacher education include strengthening subject matter preparation, providing more and better opportunities for trying out teaching skills, integrating theory and research results in the curriculum, and cooperating with schools in preparing teachers. (MSE)

The basic science curriculum in dental education could be improved by adopting a curriculum containing only two integrated required science courses about (1) the structure and function of the human body and (2) disease and reaction to disease in the human body. Elective graduate-level predoctoral courses would allow specialization. (MSE)

Describes the means used and problems faced during an effort to implement, maintain, and improve a national program for disseminating training in educational administration to secondary school administrators in New Zealand's Central Region, an administrative area containing 80 secondary schools, by depending on the first trainees to train others.…

Teachers must play a central role in attempts to reform public education. Teachers are losing control over their work. They must organize, defend schools as institutions essential to maintaining a democracy, and portray themselves as transformative intellectuals who combine scholarly reflection and practice to train students to be responsible…

Discusses origins, structure, objectives, and implications for U.S. schools of ZEMPOREN, the All Japan Teachers' Federation Studying the Use of Radio and Television in Education, which promotes effective use of classroom broadcasting through a published journal, research, conventions, and by acting as liaison between the educational network and…

Discusses need for development of a theory of affirmative action in higher education. Six hypotheses are given to develop the theory, which should (1) embrace a concept of multi-intelligence; (2) utilize social technologies for change; (3) entail a group solution approach; and (4) be able to generate models for testing, among other…

Barriers to the natural evolution of nonsexist field experience for social work students are examined, including both those endemic to the systems and individuals involved in the program. It is recommended that faculty initiate change in these conditions. (MSE)

The strategies used by the administrator of the University of Melbourne's central registration office to meet the multiple challenges of retraining staff for computerization, substantial reduction in staff, and a specific directive to improve services to users are outlined and discussed. (MSE)

Argues that the computer will make a major difference because it places within one total environment that teaches (the school) another total environment that teaches (the computer). A hopeful sign is the growing number of educational computer programs that use the computer effectively as a mind-tool rather than an instructional medium. (BBM)

What is needed in a training program to successfully transfer technology from a developed to a developing nation is discussed. Workers' technical know-how can only be transmitted directly by workers in the owner company to workers in the receiving company through collaboration in on-the-job training. (RM)

Several conditions are described under which school psychological services can be provided and expanded in rural areas: parent and administrator variables; public relations, training concerns; expanded role; external influences on schools; and use of family systems theory and expert versus referent power concepts. (Author/GDC)