Educational administrators and innovators need to become aware of the ideologies hidden in systematic management and organizational development theory if they wish to provide creative leadership in initiating and implementing educational change. Teacher Corps experience supports the notion that effective change is best implemented through a…

Eight curriculum objectives of public community college business programs were defined by the researcher and validated by a jury of 30 educators. The presidents and business department heads of 376 public community colleges were asked by questionnaire to rank the eight objectives. Presidents and business department heads of 17 Texas public junior…

In this attempt to view the approach to adult education in the United States, the dangers and benefits of mingling vocational and non-vocational, credit and noncredit, technical, commercial, and liberal adult education within one institution are presented. Examined also are the status of adult educators within the university, the love of organized…

This report is the product of a conference designed to define profitable areas of inquiry in the sociology of education with emphasis on the intersection of sociological inquiry and urgent problems in educational research. It is compiled from the stenotyped record of conference proceedings (five sessions at which position reports were presented as…

A position statement developed by representatives of 16 cities to broaden vocational education opportunities and improve program quality resulted in the following principles: (1) Programs of occupational education must be an integral part of the educational process, (2) Occupational education must be sufficiently broad and varied in scope and be…

The 42 chapters of this book, each contributed by an experienced supervisor of a business education program and a master teacher of business subjects, were originally published in the 1962-1965 May issues of the "National Business Education Quarterly." Part I gives a brief history of administration and supervision in business education with…

An outdoor education program is described which has the philosophy that a direct experience is better than a vicarious one, and that the efficiency of education is increased in direct proportion to the amount of direct experience. An historical background which included pilot programs and experimental programs is discussed. Facilities, philosophy…

As one part of a volume of abstracts of studies of the last decade primarily in the vocational and technical field, this report includes 139 abstracts in the categories of philosophy, psychology, sociology, statistics, supervision, and technical education. The abstracts in philosophy treat the development of trade and industrial education,…

This compilation of 19 research papers based upon eight weeks of participant observation in 11 different nursery, infant, and junior schools during summer, 1977, is divided into four sections. The urban, suburban and village schools all utilized an informal classroom approach. A total of five authors describe the role of structure, free choice,…

The influence of Cicero on the teaching of English composition is slight and in all likelihood diminishing. Among Cicero's beliefs were that rhetoric is the highest of vocations, thought and expression have an essential unity, the question "How should I live?" is paramount, the ideal orator maintains a unity of contemplation and action,…

This guide provides teaching techniques for an undergraduate philosophy course. Students examine specific philosophic issues related to the black person's experience. They are required to apply critical and analytical procedures leading to philosophical investigations of topics of both philosophical and nonphilosophical origins. The teaching…

The conclusions presented in a book entitled Inequality, written by Jencks, et al., call for a critical analysis of the popular beliefs regarding schools and schooling as a means to achieve the social, economic, and cultural goals of the American Dream. This meritocratic system offers equal opportunities but may yield unequal results. In the…

In order to locate means to enhance student vocational preparation through the study of literature, literary-vocational relationships are identified or inferred in selected aspects of the American educational context. The first two chapters introduce the study and survey background influences, while the third and fourth chapters examine the…

The paper discusses civic literacy as it bears on adult education. Civic literacy addresses the domain of intentional actions about political community, in a process of discovery and invention, the result of a dynamic interaction between practice and theory. The action-inquiry model of civic literacy consists of two theses and five competencies.…

The document contains reflections on the concept of lifelong education. Toward a Model of Lifelong Education (Malcolm S. Knowles) proposes a role competency model based on the assumption that the purpose of education is the development of competencies for performing various human roles. Lifelong Learning and Our Schools (Karl-Heinz Flechsig)…