This discussion of reasons for resistance to the use of instructional media in higher education examines three levels--resistance to innovation in general, resistance to need and different teaching techniques, and resistance based on genuine concerns, misunderstandings, or unpleasant experiences. Some ways to counter this resistance are suggested.…

Surveys the ideas of William Glasser and Herbert Kohl on discipline and then evaluates them by reviewing both their strengths and weaknesses. (Author/MLF)

A program designed for the handling of student disruptions uses the basic concepts of Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis in an in-service program to help teachers understand better what is happening in transactions between two people. William Glasser's Reality Therapy is used as the vehicle for attempting to change student behavior. (Author/MLF)

Presents the "Change Potential Analysis Chart," a tool for administrators to use in successfully managing change. (Author/JM)

Suggestions for energy-saving action programs which school business officials can instigate. (MLF)

A comprehensive staff development program is described. The points discussed include educational change, rationales, and utilization. (MK)

Describes a program employing "social literacy" that resulted in improved reading and mathematics scores (on the Stanford Achievement Tests) for eighth- and ninth-grade students in one junior high. (IRT)

The High School Self-Renewal Program offers a method for defining and solving school problems. (Author)

Addresses problems of declining enrollments and abolition of history requirements at the college level. Proposes restructuring of the traditional survey courses. (KC)

Suggests several ways in which the educational environment in teacher education programs can be altered to support change and encourage risk taking by new English teachers. (DD)

Discusses diffusion problems of new social studies curriculum materials, exploring roles of external and internal agents of change. Recommends that subject specialists, curriculum designers, evaluators, and educational sociologists cooperate with teachers to diffuse materials. (CK)

Case study of Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt's attempt at innovation in the United States Navy offers a means of assessing individual initiative in hiearchical change. (PD)

The key to the successful problem-solving process is the educational engineer, whose role is to make specific practical applications of knowledge gained by research. An educational engineer program is offered to the schools by a regional service agency in Pennsylvania. (Author/IRT)

Suggests that librarians have a great deal to offer in the field of adult education given their traditional reader's role and training in information services. Author believes this valuable resource of librarians should be made known to adults and adult educators. (JD)

Meditation and relaxation were compared for ability to reduce stress reactions in a laboratory threat situation. Meditation can produce a psychophysiological configuration in stress situations opposite to that seen in stress-related syndromes. Research is indicated on clinical applications and on the process whereby meditation state effects may…