A rationale is set forth for curriculum analysis based on the concept of design as opposed to formal theory. A schema based on that rationale is presented, and an exploratory application of those schema is made to some of the curricular introductions in the field of general education. (Author/SF)

Feedback may be helpful in teacher training and supervision. A study indicates that, on the basis of student feedback, student teachers significantly changed their teaching styles across five dimensions. (CJ)

Emphasizes the importance of recognizing and managing the stress produced by organizational development and encourages practitioners to acknowledge stress management as an important organizational development skill. (LRA)

While most organizational development consultants agree that managers are the real change agents, the profession has been slow to actively prepare managers to create and manage change. This article identifies barriers to helping the manager and offers guidelines for more effective consultant behavior. (LRA)

Describes an intervention which involves the acting out by a therapy team of a nodal family struggle. The technique can break through a therapeutic deadlock with highly resistant families. Case studies illustrate how the shock of the contrived team conflict can interrupt previous behavior patterns. (JAC)

The participants, strategies, and tactics involved in the curriculum change process in graduate schools of business were investigated. Two groups of participants, internals and externals, and two strategies, the empirical rational and the power coercive, are identified. The methods used to implement or resist curriculum change are described.…

Provides advice on determining how much centralization is desirable and how to achieve it. Presents advantages of centralization. Suggests beginning centralization with a top executive mandate. Discusses the first meeting to define common objectives. (CSS)

Notes how international diversification necessitates adaptation of the English curriculum, especially in business communication. (RL)

This paper deals with general concepts of planned culture change that could reduce education's resistance to technological change. Ethnographic parallels are utilized to demonstrate the use of the principles of culture change and technological innovation in the culture of the schools. (Author)

Two St. Louis universities adopt management techniques from business. (Author)

Compared effectiveness of group assertion therapy with individual assertion therapy. Results indicated no significant differences between group v individual assertion training. Pre-, post-, and follow-up measures demonstrated that both treatments were effective in increasing assertive behavior skills and in reducing hostility and anger. Treatment…

Discusses regulations pertaining to federally funded child care and advocates HEW approval and enforcement of proposed revised day-care standards. (CM)

A step-by-step process for changing curriculum, based on research by both the Ford and Danforth Foundations, stresses that administrators and teachers must work together to bring about meaningful change. (Author/MLF)

The origins of academic chemistry are described and the author's views on the future of university academic chemistry are presented. (HM)

The central problem in the art of administration is maintaining flexibility of organization. To maintain the flexibility that allows vitality and growth there must be within academe devices that encourage and facilitate the achievement of flexibility. Several of these devices are briefly noted. (Article originally published in 1935.) (AF)