The second in a series of three, this article reviews some major educational priorities currently being pursued by development agencies, and examines some of the ambivalent perceptions about agency activities in recipient nations. Improved programs in teacher training in developing countries are recommended. Ten references are listed. (MER)

Strategies which may be used to overcome opposition to microcomputers by faculty, students, and administrators are detailed. It is felt that, ultimately, all three groups will have to work together toward the establishment of the computer in the classroom. (MP)

Examining the role of education in the future, the author discusses two ways industrial arts might enter into the picture: (1) be aware of the educational needs of the future and (2) shed itself of the trappings of the past and invent its own role. (LRA)

Discusses the impact of printing on early modern Europe, especially on the Italian Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and the rise of modern science. (JMF)

Presents a model for training counselors to learn to confront empathetically. Describes a confrontation training scale that includes inadequate responses of acquiescing and scolding and the progressively more effective responses of recognizing ineffective behavior, realizing its negative consequences, and committing to change. Suggests confronting…

The new "collaborative movement" to involve teachers in educational research is mildly reformist but, if research is to have a progressive influence on educational studies, it must do more than produce information on educational processes. It should be concerned with the parameters of educational thought and strive to redefine issues.…

Notes that with prospects of smaller undergraduate enrollments in the years ahead and with the need to create new challenges for schools and departments of journalism, continuing education programs can become a major activity for imaginative and progressive journalism educators and administrators. (RL)

Discusses the benefits of the International Communication Association Communication Audit as a methodology for evaluation of organizational communication processes and outcomes. An "after" survey of 16 audited organizations confirmed the audit as a valid diagnostic methodology and organization development intervention technique which…

Presents the rationale behind and description of the Individualized Instruction for Data Access (IIDA) system, which is intended to assist people in performing online bibliographic searches through the use of another computer as intermediary. (CWM)

Reviews the processes farmers use in accepting, rejecting, continuing, and discontinuing agricultural technology. (LRA)

Suggests activities that reading staff developers can use to "unfreeze" staff members, building an interest in and a state of readiness for the program steps to be discussed. The suggested activities call for the active mental and physical involvement of staff members. (GT)

If teacher education programs are to have an effect on the structure of the schools their graduates teach in, they are going to have to reorient themselves to focus on the modification of organizational factors rather than focusing solely on the professional development of school personnel. (Author/IRT)

Presented are two group activities designed to raise consciousness and awareness of sexism. Activity I, the Sex Role Autobiography, allows participants to examine specific aspects of their own personal histories. Activity II, the Sexism Box, consists of small group study of sexist manifestations in our society, such as advertisements. (Author/SJL)

The late 1970s may be regarded not merely as lacking in significant reform in higher education, but also as a period characterized by a loss of momentum in certain ambitious reforms previously initiated. Some reform strategies succeeded and others did not. (MSE)

Androgynous husbands used fewer last-resort, dependency and authoritative, and more give-up means of influence. Androgynous wives tended to use significantly less give-up, accommodative, dependency and authoritative means. Different sex-role types will differ in the use of means of influence. (Author)