The 1974 study of program availability in Missouri provides data on the number of students registered in courses taught in the fall of 1974 and indicates the optimum number of students who could have been accommodated in each of the courses at that time. The information includes the level of the course and HEGIS discipline of the aggregate…

Information from the social sciences, related to the development of substantive content for social science curricula at the secondary school level, is recorded in 16 interviews with small groups of social scientists. A cross-representational team of psychologists and educators conducted these two-and-one-half-hour interviews to obtain the social…

The first of four chapters in this booklet on proposed minimum standards is a general discussion of accreditation procedures; it is designed to assist departments of education in reviewing, developing, and applying standards for legal accreditation or approval of programs for educating teachers. Chapter 2 contains principles and standards for the…

As the eighth and last in a series of short reports on 1972 legislation and achievements in specific subject areas in education, this research brief is devoted to curriculum and instruction. To obtain data, questionnaires asking for information on legislation and achievements in education were sent to all state departments of education,…

Whether or not environmental concerns provide a visable and continuing basis of university organization is the situation scrutinized in this speech. Apparently part of the problem has been the generation of some theme or model around which a core of interested faculty and students could work. It is implied that some conceptual organization of an…

This essay is written for the secondary school teacher who is organizing that first course hoping to suggest some of the answers to the question: where to begin. The author begins by very briefly describing the discipline in terms of its central concerns with some history and some prediction for tomorrow. Against this historical background,…

This conference report begins with a statement of purpose and an outline of organization for the conference. Three topics--human development, studies for all men, and teachers and teaching--were related to the liberal arts, the humanities, and the disciplines and were to be brought to focus by three synthesizing reports after the completion of the…

Architectural education has three choices, according to the author: to seek more collaborative possibilities with the behavioral sciences (multi-disciplinary) to establish a new framework for defining the relationship between man, environment, and built space (the ideal); or to find some medium ground between the two (interdisciplinary). (JT)

The role and needed skills of the academic department chairman are examined: (1) planning, (2) communicating, representing, negotiating, coordinating, and facilitating functions, (3) problem solving (including committee selection), and (4) organizing and administering (including schedules and recruitment, faculty involvement, and staff…

A grammar school in England is compared to a private school in the United States. Among other things, the author finds the English students better trained in their disciplines and the American students more open to diversity of class, race, and background, and more aware of the world around them. (KC)

Outlines the feminist perspective within political science and evaluates the influence of the feminist point of view on mainstream political science teaching. Concludes that additional dialogue is necessary between feminists and their teaching colleagues to alleviate stereotypes and biases regarding womens' political behavior and theoretical…

The National Center for Education Statistics has commissioned a new educational taxonomy, which will include a speech communication category. The omnibus project, guidelines and constraints affecting the classification process, and the activities and decisions that relate particularly to speech communication are discussed. (JMF)

Interprets developments in perceptual geography through discussion of commentaries and reviews of literature and research within the field of perceptual geography. Research is reviewed in several categories, including definition of perceptual geography, an historical context, motifs, and understandings gained from perceptual geography. (Author/DB)

A new course, Environmental Chemical Engineering, introduced at Exeter University in 1972, is described. Focus is on cooperation among five participating departments, coordination of teaching, and the coherence of what was taught. The importance of the interrelationships existing between a new discipline and those outside the university are also…

A survey study to determine the status of "Foundations of Mathematics" and "Philosophy of Mathematics" in the total curricular preparation of prospective school mathematics teachers in the U.S. is reported. Implications for curriculum development are discussed and objectives of these two courses are appended. (LBH)