ABSTRACT:
This is the second volume in the ETC SYSTEM SERIES.
The first manuscript was commissioned in 1964 by Dr. James D. Finn at the University of Southern California, and it was prepared by Dr. Robert Heinich. At that time, applications of systems thinking in education did not exist on a broad scale anywhere in the world.
In the ensuing years, the movement to utilize systems engineering techniques for education and training problems evolved. In this completely new book, Dr. Leonard C. Silvern has welded the efforts of dozens of educational innovators into a set of two volumes representing thousands of professional manhours of effort.
Readers of SEE I: EVOLUTION OF SYSTEMS THINKING IN EDUCATION will find this new book a natural extension describing applications in such diverse areas as: program development in a community college, English as a second language in several university settings, computer-managed program development, needs assessment, curriculum development, ethnographic educational evaluation, education of the handicapped at school district level, military curriculum evaluation, career education, competency based curriculum development, and competency based teacher education.
Volume 1 contains textual material with small flowchart models and tables.
Volume 2 contains large flowchart foldout models which are examined while interpreting Volume 1. Each chapter is self-contained including references. Contributions by such leaders in education as Cox, M. Dobbert, D. Dobbert, Dzabic, Fournier, Gordon, Jimenez, Kipfer, LaBrie, Legendre, Mead, Naranjo, Persselin, Pratt, Rapson, Ryan, Sakamoto, Sinnett, Stilwell, Tung and others comprise the book.
SEE II (1976) presents systems techniques in, readible form, for a wide variety of settings, and solves diverse education problems. It is a monumental contribution to the behavioral sciences which continues the innovative work in systems engineering begun by Dr. Silvern, noted as the "father of systems-thinking in education."
