The decade of the 1970s was an important time for agricultural education. The landmark Vocational Education Act of 1963, which focused “its efforts on those minorities in particular who had been left on the fringes of the labor market” (Grubb & Lazerson, 1981, p. 117) had been discussed and carefully evaluated. The emphasis on civil rights continued into the 1970s and sex equity was added as an...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, social psychologists diagnosed their field as suffering a state of disciplinary crisis. The crisis was a multifaceted one, but issues of methodology, social relevance, and disciplinary, philosophical, and theoretical orientation were the primary areas of concern. Given that these issues have been prominent ones throughout the history of the social and behavioral ...

Preliminary version 1 Browsing through Oxford students " economics reading lists during the inter-war period; it rapidly becomes apparent that Marshall " s theory formed a key part of economics syllabi at the time. It seems highly likely that Marshall " s Principles of Economics prevailed as the dominant theory of industry and of competition during these two decades. However, the Principles of ...

As Martin Campbell-Kelly [5] notes in his paper on this panel, data on the emergence of the software industry is sparse, and "In the absence of hard quantitative data, the best historical approach appears to be one based on case studies." While his paper provides case studies of specific software firms, this paper provides a different type of case study: a study of the emergence of application ...

Postperinatal mortality rates have shown two phases of decline since 1947 which are traditionally ascribed to social and medical improvements. These factors cannot, however, explain the arrest of decline during the 1960s. There appears to be a biological effect on child mortality rates, manifesting as a generation effect. This is due partly to continuing changes in the structure of the child po...

The administrator of the district, Mr John Colman, first employed me as a translator assisting the late Mr Muriso Warebu. I assisted him and in particular worked with the Gimi people and the people of Moraei. Then I was selected to be trained as an aid post orderly. After completing the course, I was sent back to Purosa to set up an aid post. With the help of the village people, the building wa...

The UN Preparatory Committee for the Second United Nations Development Decade entrusted to CESI, which is associated with the Office of Public Information, the preparation of a report on the measures undertaken and envisaged « with a view to mobilizing public opinion in regard to the objectives of the Second Development Decade ». The Report is also to be considered a response to similar request...

INTRODUCTION The Sixth Session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) designated Sir Robert Jackson as Commissioner to undertake a study of the capacity of the United Nations system to handle the resources made available by the UNDP first, at their present level, and second, if doubled over the next five years. The « Jackson Report » is the result of a study...

The forces that have shaped American medicine include a wide set of interrelated changes, among them the changing research, development, and marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry. This article compares the research and development (R&D) and marketing strategies of the British group Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI, whose Pharmaceutical Division was spun off and merged with the Swe...

1. System Dynamics (SD) developed originally in the late 1950s by Jay Forrester 2. Viable Systems Model (VSM) developed originally in the late 1960s by Stafford Beer 3. Strategic Options Development and Analysis (SODA: with cognitive mapping) developed originally in the 1970s by Colin Eden 4. Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) developed originally in the 1970s by Peter Checkland 5. Critical Systems...