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FOLLOWING the practice begun in the November‐December, 1963, number of this journal, the present edition of “annotations of doctoral dissertations” is broadly inclusive of titles from various disciplines related to religious education. Preference for inclusion has again been given to investigations conducted according to the methodology of the behavioral sciences, but many titles using theological, philosophical, and historical methods of analysis have also been included. The initial selection of titles was based upon the Index to American Doctoral Dissertations, published in the spring for the preceding academic year by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich. The list eventually selected for annotation was produced out of the recommendations of a group of eleven specialists from the Religious Education Association and the National Council of Churches. The annotations, in turn, have been based primarily upon abstracts {presumably furnished by the authors) published monthly in Dissertation Abstracts, a service also of University Microfilms. As before, a few abstracts of dissertations done at schools not participating in the Dissertation Abstracts program (notably Chicago and Harvard) were annotated if obtainable. Unfortunately, however, abstracts were sometimes not obtainable, even though the titles indicated value for religious education. Some abstracts also simply could not be found in Dissertation Abstracts even though the school granting the degree was listed as participant in this service. Persons interested in reviewing complete dissertations usually may obtain these in one of two ways: the school granting the degree will either loan complete dissertations to local libraries on inter‐library loan or it will direct interested persons to ordering the dissertation on microfilm. Please do not address requests for dissertations either to RELIGIOUS EDUCATION or the National Council of Churches.1 1Code for annotation process: In the listings of dissertations each item cites, ‐whenever possible, author, dissertation title, degree, school, and year. Following this, reference is made to Dissertation Abstracts showing the location of the abstracts (e.g., for the first listing: Vol. XXIV, No. 3, p. 1064). The numbers in the text of the annotation refer to the following content: (1) Classification of study by methodological type, e.g., whether exploratory, secondary analysis of existing data, content analysis, sample survey (descriptive or explanatory), evaluative survey, experiment, critical and historical review of literature related to theory or concept, historical description (including case histories), philosophical‐theological analysis or construction of a program tool or set of procedures; (2), population(s) to which findings are related and size of sample proportion responding (where relevant); (3) chief instruments or tools used (if any) and sources of data; (4) major finding(s). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
