A Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Program to Totally Transform Education

Russell J. Hendel

This chapter provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary program for education, significantly increasing educational success and satisfaction, and solving many current educational problems. The proposed program envisions education as the interdisciplinary interaction of, and communication between, the fields of psychology, vocational counseling, legislative reform, information technology, instructional design, project management, and cybernetics. No method in this chapter is new. Methods advocated in the chapter are derived from successful implementations in various countries or various disciplines. The methods also reflect use of interdisciplinarity to justify a unification of, or supplement to, existing accepted approaches. Each method mentioned in the chapter has significantly solved major educational problems. The main purposes of the chapter are to gather these ideas into one place, and make readers aware of their availability, with the hope that this awareness can lead to a wider applicability of these methods resulting in more educational successes. The chapter covers major current educational areas including, student learning, educational infrastructure, educational research, delinquency and recidivism, motivation, as well as the instruction in traditionally difficult teaching areas including essay writing and verbal mathematical problems.

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