A three-day research development seminar planning a comprehensive research program on the deanship in educational administration featured papers and responses to the papers delineating the domains of inquiry. The topics of the papers and responses summarized (1) suggest a framework for analyzing the growth and development of a field of…

These participant and administrator manuals are designed for a seminar on alcohol and safety. This seminar is intended to be a small-group, intensive planning session dealing with the problems of handling people charged with drinking-driving offenses. The participants should be enforcement, judicial, presentence, prosecution, probation,…

According to Dr. Gorelick, "fictional literature has unique assets that live clinical experience lacks," thus setting the tone for his paper. Literature serves many purposes; a form of communication; a tool for making the reader understand her/his subjectivity; and most importantly for the mental health situations, "it (literature) represents the…

The Massachusetts Public Library Materials Conservation Project was a year-long program sponsored by the Massachusetts Bureau of Library Extension and conducted by the New England document Conservation Center (NEDCC) under a grant from Title I, Library Services and Construction Act. Its purposes were to provide public library administrators,…

Three major rationales characterize the literature dealing with the use of humanities instruction in preparing educational administrators. These rationales focus on (1) the general liberalization of the administrator, (2) the values and purpose-defining skills of the administrator, and (3) the creative and analytical skills of the administrator.…

This study was conducted to evaluate professional education courses. Three groups of beginning teachers were established. Group one consisted of 22 liberal arts program graduates with no professional education courses. Group two consisted of 38 liberal arts bachelor degree recipients with education courses but without student teaching, and group…

Discussed in this document are the changes within the physics profession, their causes and effect. Detailed statistical data are supplied concerning physics enrollments, the institutions where physics is taught, the faculty in physics departments, and the nonacademic employment of physicists. Other topics include employment, education, minority…

This list of recommended books and monographs was compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development during a project designed to develop and test procedures to evaluate and disseminate information on training of education research and development (R&D) personnel. The purpose of the bibliography is to provide guidance…

This document presents a list of colleges and universities in the United States offering major preparation programs in health, physical education and recreation. The information, collected in the spring and summer of 1973, indicates programs provided at the undergraduate (for men and women) and graduate levels in the three areas or combinations…

This book, based on the author's experience as a professional actress, is divided into three sections. The first part, "The Actor," deals with techniques the actor uses to function physically, verbally, and emotionally and discusses the actor's concept of himself and the art of acting. The second part, "The Object Exercises," consists of a series…

This report states that since master's, doctoral, and professional programs (M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., O.D., J.D., and Pharm. D.) are quite different in their nature and admissions patterns, these three general divisions must be discussed separately. After a brief summary of admission patterns for each type of program, there are three statistical…

Mid-career is a time period when the knowledge and skills acquired during a collegiate education begin to approach obsolescence unless constantly renewed. Several studies had reported that peak performance of engineers and scientists occurs in the thirties and early forties. If these observations are correct, the updating process must be viewed as…

This manual was designed to accompany the revised version of "Training Judges for Girls Gymnastics," a 16mm black and white sound film available from Association Films, Inc. On the film, the first two routines in each event are shown twice. In the manual, there are three category charts. The first is blank to be filled in by trainees after the…

This paper aims to identify major problems in professional education which appear common to all professions. The 4 categories of problems considered are: establishment of an identity and purpose, organization of instruction, relations with other units within the institution, and relations with external agencies. It then discusses, through an…

This book concerning the continuing education of teachers offers an overview of the problems of professional growth. It attempts to provide an understanding of the organizational conditions which are prerequisites for professional development and to provide curriculum workers with a deeper insight into the connections between a course of study and…