Activities and technologies in telecommunication have been impacted significantly by rapid technical change, rivalry and conflict among private and public organizations, and an absence of any policy structure and guidance from the public sector. Three visions of the future in telecommunication are suggested: a competitive future, massive public…

The major responsibility of this workshop on nonformal education is to establish some prototypes of community training activities which will coordinate with the agricultural and health components of Ethiopia's Fourth Five Year Plan for rural development and which can later be reproduced in the countryside. Linking education to overall development…

This publication is intended to aid local public officials and interested citizens in planning how to best manage rapid population growth resulting from construction and/or development of new energy-related facilities. In particular, it discusses what the impact of an energy project on a community is likely to be, shares ideas for action based on…

In considering the organizational functions of school systems, the following assumptions need to be examined: client achievement cannot be used as a major index of organizational health; organizational functioning relates closely to the utilization of available human and material resources; maximizing available resources increases organizational…

In order to survive creativity in and change educational organizations, the decision-maker needs to understand how these organizations presently function. Educational organizations are discussed as sociopolitical systems and a conceptual framework is proposed for analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The five functions that…

A counseling analogue study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a method for changing clients' self-perceptions in an interview. Based on causal attribution theory, an interview procedure was designed to systematically control behavioral information assumed to be utilized by individuals in inductively arriving at views of their…

Generally, business policy is thought of as a course rather than as a field of study or as a broad discipline. This view has limited the development of substantive knowledge unique to the problems of total enterprise management. Evidence indicates that a broader view of these problems and new opportunities for further development are emerging.…

Alternative schooling is challenging some basic notions of curriculum, operation, and structure of traditional schools; it is not challenging the basic concept of schooling. Chicano alternative education, an elusive concept, lacks a precise definition. Chicano alternative schools reflect a vast diversity in structure, focus, and goals. The Chicano…

This report summarizes an international workshop held in 1970 to consider new approaches to Italian secondary education. At the conference, educational experts from the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, as well as two members of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation met with 23…

The evidence in the literature is that both students' efforts and administrators' responses have fallen far short of what it takes to change a system substantially. The categories of literature covered in this bibliography include student and educator perceptions of conditions in schools that generate conflict and impetus for change; empirical…

The principal's main role must be that of a change agent who is attempting to improve instruction by improving teaching, and the best way to improve teaching is to change teacher behavior. This improvement is possible only through changes in the instructional pattern of the teacher. Some methods of procedure and discussion of leadership patterns…

The focus on this two-part document is the background information illuminating the underlying issues of the 1974-75 National High School Debate Resolutions. Within the general category of the problems of political reform, the specific problem area is stated as "How can the federal political system best be improved?" The three debate…

This bibliography is compiled for persons who wish to understand organizational change as it occurs in the schools or who wish to enable it to happen more surely. Most of the entries deal with processes, structures, or events in the schools or their environments. Writings about other organizations are included only when they translate easily to…

In this publication, the authors suggest that the findings reported are sufficiently well supported by evidence to act as useful guides, even if tentatively. The central purpose of the program was to develop a theory and technology for structural and cultural change within the public schools. The program deliberately emphasized both formative and…

A study was made using behavioral-science knowledge and educational technology to reduce the problem of lost and damaged freight at the St. Johnsbury Trucking Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This case study utilized the concept of force field analysis. The concept involved unfreezing a specific set of circumstances in the organization, moving…