"Interdisciplinarity," the integration of concepts and methods between disciplines in teaching and research, may provide an important key to the innovations required in universities to meet the intellectual and social demands of the present time. This report is based on a seminar held in September 1970 and reports the subsequent reflections of a…

Because of the ability of communications satellites to distribute electronic information (radio, television, digital computer data) over wide areas with potentially attractive costs, considerable interest has been shown in using satellite technology to enhance educational programs, both in the United States and in other countries. In view of these…

The first section of the paper defines project accountability, presents background to the concept, and highlights current problems in the public school system. The paper is also concerned with assessment procedures that make provisions for accountability in (1) attainment of terminal objectives and (2) phase-by-phase conduct of a project in…

The activities of International Education Year enable us to assess the recent spectacular expansion of world education, and the results are scarcely encouraging. There is a growing rift in the industrial nations between educational systems and societies, which is breaking down the school's monopoly as a source of knowledge. If the developing…

OBJECTIVES: The development of undergraduate teacher education programs and the development of materials to be used in these programs. DURATION: Summer 1967 to the summer 1971. AUDIENCE: Education majors at Fairmont State College, Shepard College, West Virginia State College, and West Virginia University. CURRICULUM: Child development,…

The concepts of educational research, development, and dissemination can be examined and defined so that a framework in which the relationship of each to adaptation, documentation, and evaluation can be visualized. Using the Teacher Corps Projects, a component of the federal research and development effort, as a concrete example, it can be seen…

Article attempted to understand the chronically low or ambiguous status of art in the schools from historical data. (Author/RK)

Author suggested that if professional associations are to assume a leadership function, then professional art educators must examine the values they hold and then make distinctions as to which values they need to support most openly in the art education of children and youth. (Author/RK)

Describes briefly the development of distance teaching (a combination of correspondence plus broadcasting plus face-to-face teaching) with focus on its application in developing countries where for economy reasons the tutor's role is limited and must, according to the author, concentrate on dialogue with students and communication of educational…

Implying that there was no purposeful preparation for educational leadership during the first 130 years of the United States' development, this article presents considerations for future development of educational leaders. (JC)

The community school does not start at 3:30 p.m. This is the notion that the writer tries to get across as he illustrates how to expand the concept of community education into the traditional day school program. (Editor)

A visitor to Japanese secondary schools in the Tokyo area with a tour group sponsored by NASSP, this writer explains what he learned after observing schools and speaking with educators and officials. He found the Japanese student generally highly motivated and well-disciplined. (Editor)

Author delivered an address that compared the two directions that scientific research may take; that is, to the millenium of Skinner and Schaff or to the end of man as seen by Huxley and Ellul. (Author/RK)

The scope of legal issues regarding bilingual education is analyzed. The article emphasizes the need for bilingual educators to increase their efforts to: (1) promote active community involvement in education, (2) encourage young minority people to become teachers, (3) awaken the sensibility of educators for what is really valuable in the…

Mary Bidwell Breed predicted that midwestern universities would probably "pass through a stage of educational development in which the liberal arts are entirely feminized, the men are entirely commercialized." We can appreciate how close she came to pinpointing trends which did not begin to be reversed until sixty years later.…