The purpose of this manual is to encourage the growth of community organization and to make the process of mobilizing a community and the skills involved known to those who participate in the organizing process. It offers practical suggestions on understanding the organizing process, diagnosing, and improving it. The manual is written with the…

All changes in educational practice are based on the assumption that it is possible experimentally or operationally to determine with accuracy which educational method is best. Yet experience suggests this assumption is doubtful. In almost every new educational experiment, the initial results are positive. In later stages, after the change is…

This paper describes the proceedings of a conference on children and television, "Worldwide Fine Tuning for Children," held on 11 February 1977 by the University of Miami Department of Communications. The purpose of the conference was to survey the world of television as experienced by children and to explore how communications experts,…

Among the primary social pressures on schools to change are the demands for individualization, relevance, accountability, educational technology, and humanizing relationships. These five pressures challenge the educational administrator and offer categories in which to plan professional development activities. The adaptive school is an avenue for…

Beeby's description of the four modes of operation of school systems is couched mainly in terms of teachers' conduct in the classroom. In translating this into administrative terms, only two levels are of prime importance, formalism and meaning. Formalism implies preoccupation with maintenance of existing procedures and policies, while meaning…

Procedures used to select classes for an intensive study of change processes in teacher and student classroom behavior resulting in increases in academic learning time are discussed. Included in the text are sections on the philosophy of the intervention, the procedures and methodology to be used, the history of selection, the instructional model,…

Discussion of educational reform/renewal involves consideration of the institutional characteristics of schooling. Schools have underlying patterns of conduct, belief, and values that provide meaning to the ongoing activities of learning. These patterns and assumptions of school life have tended to produce standardized educational experiences,…

Organizations like the Mexican American Correctional Association have brought to the attention of Spanish-speaking criminal justice groups the problems affecting Mexican American citizens. Although changes are necessary in all facets of the administration of the justice system, substantive progress is being made. For example, the Office for…

This report reviews some of the most relevant findings from the extensive research which has been done on behavior modification. It summarizes the more important, practical, concrete, and classroom-tested procedures which research shows to be effective im improving students' academic and social behaviors. The first section of the report begins by…

The document contains the proceedings of a Statewide conference on enhancing the role of vocational education administrators as change agents. Conference topics included: "How Administrators Can Overcome Barriers to Educational Change," Henry M. Brickell; "Why Educational Innovations Fail and How They can be More Effectively…

This book addresses the need for a theoretical framework that can effectively confront the problems of responsive, responsible renewal in curriculum development and avoid the successive waves of limited approaches and polarized viewpoints that have plagued curriculum development in the past. Part 1 discusses various historical, social, and…

Recognizing the need for improved, more flexible, more reality-based training for pupil personnel workers, the Division of Foundations and Human Behavior, Indiana University, in conjunction with the Department of Counseling and Guidance, formed a relationship with the Indianapolis Public Schools in order to seek out methods of improving PPS…

This paper describes the continued development of the "Trouble Shooting" Checklists. These checklists are based on change agent responses and are designed to be predictive of an institution's change potential for the adoption of innovations. The development of two new instruments is described, both innovation-free. One applies to higher…

On April 27-29, 1975, the American Vocational Association, in cooperation with the American Personnel and Guidance Association and the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, held a National Workshop To Implement Change in Counseling and Career Guidance. Workshop participants were brought together to engage in a process designed to…

The document presents remarks from a speech given by Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware and National Chairman of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), at the 1970 meetings of the American Vocational Association. In his speech, he asserts that vocational education can be a powerful tool in curing some of our major social problems of…