Spring 1971 // Volume 9 // Number 1
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Editor's Page
Editor's Page (pdf)
Point of View
Point of View(pdf)
Extension Teach Ecology?Dave Miller
Feature Articles
Experiments in Dialogue (pdf)
Communication continues to be one of the most serious problems facing Extension people. Why aren't community agencies better able to work together? Why is there mistrust among agencies? The author reports on a three-day communication laboratory conducted by the Extension Service for representatives from various community agencies. Several sensitivity exercises were used to identify communication problems and strengthen interpersonal communication skills. Providing leadership for community dialogue may be one of the new roles for Extension.
MIE Assists Small Businessmen (pdf)
How can the extension professional be more effective in his work with small businessmen? Rindt suggests a Management Information Exchange as a tool. MIE is organized and operated at the community level and makes the expertise of some businessmen available to others who want and need it. "Small businessmen prefer getting help from other businessmen," Rindt says. And they prefer getting assistance on a personal, one-to-one basis. MIE can help the already too busy extension professional reach many small businessmen, and more effectively, too.
Developing New Junior Leaders (pdf)
Junior leaders in 4-H need leadership education to be most effective. Ulrich describes a four-meeting seminar that has been adopted in several Ohio counties for first-year junior leaders. Topics such as: What Is Junior Leadership?, What Is Leadership?, Understanding and Teaching Younger Members, and Responsibilities in the Local Club are included in the series. Fourteen Ohio counties used the leadership education series in 1970 and reported an average increase of 11 percent in junior leader enrollment. Statewide increase was two percent in the same period.
Is Independent Study an Answer? (pdf)
Is independent study an extension method that will reach urban adults? Can independent study contribute to solving some problems of the urban crisis? The authors believe it can. They say independent study is appealing, has a liberal admission policy, and allows the adult to study at his own rate- and while he holds a full-time job. But to be effective, independent study must expand its curricula to include courses like criminology, theory and principles of community development, urban sociology, and Afro-American literature.
The Great Debate: On-Campus/Off-Campus Education (pdf)
There has been a concern for years that extension credit courses offered off campus are inferior to those offered on the resident campuses. The authors compared off- and on-campus, graduate-level courses and found no differences in quality of students, professors, and the learning situation. This study suggests that off-campus courses may be different from on-campus courses, however.
Research in Brief (pdf)
A Study of Municipal Recreation Personal in Ontario with Implications
for Continuing Education.
P. Boyle
Needs- of People and Their Communities- and the Adult Educator.
P. Boyle
A Systems Approach to New Careers: Two Papers. Six Steps to New Careers.
A Systems Approach to Manpower Development in Human Services.
P. Boyle
The Comparative Academic Achievement of Women Forty Years of Age and
Over and Women Eighteen to Twenty-Five Years of Age.
C. Cunningham
Older People as Consumers of Education.
C. Cunningham
Adult Psychology.
R. Kleis, W. Mielke
"An Analysis of Changes in Critical Thinking Ability, Open-Mindedness,
and Farm Policy Opinions of Participants in the Kellog Farmers Study
Program."
M. Miller
Influences on Adult Learning in the Evening College.
M. Miller
"4-H Project Leader Roles: Perception of Extension Agents and
Volunteer Leaders in Fourteen Tennessee Counties."
M. Miller
Graduate Instruction Via Telephone.
M. Miller
Characteristics of Low and High Project Leader Task Performance and
Task Qualified Groups in Selected Tennessee Counties.
M. Miller
"Interpersonal Communication and the Adoption of Innovations
Among Strawberry Growers in the Lower Fraser Valley."
M. Miller
Personal Contacts and the Adoption of Innovations.
M. Miller
"Task Difficulty, Relaxation, and Anxiety Level During Verbal
Learning and Recall."
M. Miller
"Effectiveness of Cooperative Extension Service Newsletters with
Different Formats Received by Dairymen in Pennsylvania."
M. Miller
"Clientele Differences of a Cooperative Extension Program as
Related to Area of Organization."
M. Miller
"Air Force Nurses' Participate in Programs of Continuing Education
as Related to Selected Criteria."
M. Miller
Report on Research into the Effectiveness of Medical Television Programmes,
February, 1966-July, 1967.
M. Miller
"Adult Education by Means of Telephone."
M. Miller
"A Study of Persistence of Adult Students in the Fundamental
Learning Laboratories of the North Carolina Community College System."
M. Miller
"An Experimental Investigation of the Effectiveness of Group
Listening, Discussion, Decision, Commitment, and Consensus in Indian
Radio Forums."
M. Miller
"Dropouts in High School and After High School."
D. Stormer
Training and Staff Development.
D. Stormer
Evaluation of Educational Television in University Extension Youth
Programming.
D. Stormer
"The Development of Criteria for the Evaluation of the On-Going
Job Performance of County Extension Employees."
C. Trent
Book Reviews (pdf)
Citizens Participation in Urban Development: Volume I- Concepts
and Issues. Hans B.C. Spiegal, ed. Washington, D.C.: NTL Institute
for Applied Behavioral Science, 1969. 291 pp. $3.95 (paper) and Citizens
Participation in Urban Development: Volume II- Cases and Programs.
Hans B.C. Spiegal, ed. Washington, D.C.: NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral
Science, 1969. 348 pp. $3.95 (paper).
Robert L. Bruce
Educational Media: Theory into Practice. Raymond
V. Wiman and Wesley C. Meirhenry, eds. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill
Publishing Company, 1969. 283 pp. No price given.
Terry Gibson
Management by Motivation. Saul W. Gellerman. New
York, New York: American Management Association, Inc., 1968. 286 pp.
$10.50.
George M. Nakasato
Programs to Employ the Disadvantaged. Peter B. Doeringer,
ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. 261 pp.
No price given.
Lloyd Feldmen
Readings in Community Organization Practice. Ralph
M. Kramer and Harry Specht. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,
Inc., 1969. 458 pp. $5.95 (paper).
Alvin L. Bertrand
Abstracts (pdf)
American Racism: Exploration of the Nature of Prejudice. Roger Daniels and Harry H.L. Kitano. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. 155 pp. $4.95.
Audiovisual Methods in Teaching. 3rd ed. Edgar Dale. Hinsdale, Illinois: The Dryden Press, 1969. 719 pp. $11.95.
Biology and the Future of Man. Philip Handler, ed. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. 936 pp. $12.50.
Class and Personality in Society. Alan L. Grey, ed. New York, New York: Atherton Press, 1969. 190 pp. $2.95 (paper).
The Environmental Crisis: Man's Struggle to Live with Himself. Harold W. Helfrich, Jr., ed. New Haven, Connceticut: Yale University Press, 1970. 187 pp. $1.95 (paper).
The History of Adult Education. J.W. Hudson, New Yotk, New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1969. 238 pp. $10.00.
Interpersonal Behavior and Administration. Arthur N. Turner and George F.F. Lombard. New York, New York: The Free Press, 1969. 679 pp. $11.95.
Marriage and Divorce: A Social and Economic Study. Hugh Carter and Paul C. Glick. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970. 448 pp. $8.50.
The Modern Practice of Adult Education: Andragogy Versus Pedagogy. Malcolm S. Knowles. New York, New York: Association Press, 1970. 384 pp. $12.00.
Objectivity in Social Research. Gunnar Myrdal. New York, New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. 111 pp. $1.95 (paper).
Personality and Interpersonal Behavior. Robert Freed Bales. New York, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. 561 pp. $11.95.
Principles of Sociology. Alfred McClung Lee, ed. New York, New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1969. 421 pp. $2.25 (paper).
The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A New Concept of Man's Psychological Nature. Nathaniel Branden. Los Angeles, California: Nash Publishing Corporation, 1969. 242 pp. $7.95.
The Research Process in Education. David J. Fox. New York, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969. 758 pp. $8.95.
Resources and Man: A Study and Recommendations. Committee on Resources and Man. San Francisco, California: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1969. 259 pp. $5.95.
To Nurture Humaneness: Commitment for the '70's. Mary-Margaret Scobey and Grace Graham, eds., Washington, D.C.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1970. 257 pp. $5.75.
Toward a Phenomenology of Education. J.Gordon Chamberlain. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Westminster Press, 1969. 201 pp. $6.00.
Toward a Philosophy of Education. Thomas O. Buford. New York, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969. 518 pp. $5.95.
Triple Your Reading Speed. Wade E. Cutler. New York, New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1970. 127 pp. $3.00 (paper).
Idea Corner
Idea Corner (pdf)
"On a Clear Day..."David Kohls
Reaching the Rural Businessman
Thomas A. LaQuey, Jr.
Marriage Enrichment Course for Couples
Bertha Mae Kelly
Senior Citizens' Newsletter
Barbara Buffington
County 4-H Council
Ruth Patterson