The Optimum Utilization Of Knowledge : Making Knowledge Serve Human Betterment (Paperback)

Foreword -- The Optimum Utilization of Knowledge: Some Central Concepts -- What Do We Mean by the Optimum Utilization of Knowledge? -- What Do We Know About Human Learning? -- The Brain, Cognitive Commodities, and the Enfolded Order -- Males and Females and the Learning Process -- Brain Development: Implications for Educational Policy and Practice -- The Impact of Cultural Diversity on the Spread of Knowledge -- The Fear of Knowledge -- How to Apply the Knowledge of Learning -- Formal and Informal Systems of Knowledge -- Concept-Based Learning -- Strategies in Transmitting Knowledge in the School System -- The Laboratory of Archimedes -- Knowledge as a Manageable Resource in Educational Systems -- Fragmentation of Knowledge: An Obstacle to Its Full Utilization -- Closing the Gap Between Frontier Thinking and the Curriculum -- Applying Knowledge to Decision Making -- Closing the Gap Between Expanding Knowledge and Society Through Television in the U.S. -- Mass Media: Knowledge as Entertainment -- Adapting Technology Knowledge to Social Needs -- Accountability in Research: Examples from Agriculture -- The Overutilization of Ignorance of Science and Technology in the Making of Public Policy -- Power Is Knowledge: The Linkages Between the Political System and Knowledge -- Economic Issues in the Utilization of Knowledge -- The Impact of the Arms Race on the Creation and Utilization of Knowledge -- Education for Reflection-in-Action: An Alternative to the Positivist Epistemology of Practice -- The Creation and Utilization of Knowledge in the Business Community -- Optimizing the Uses of Medical Knowledge -- Mediating Structures in the Utilization of Knowledge