LABORATORY TRAINING: A REVIEW OF PROBLEM AREAS

B. G. FIMAN; D. R. CONNER

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B. G. FIMAN Author
D. R. CONNER Author

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LABORATORY

Abstract

In this era of rapid, comprehensive communication, new educational techniques are quickly translated into frameworks that are easily utilized by society at large. Although such a process has many advantages, it also has a number of limitations, e.g., integral concepts frequently become distorted; techniques are inappropriately applied; and people without satisfactory training practice such techniques. Indeed, such a fate has accompanied one recently developed social phenomenon, laboratory training a term used hereafter to refer to a wide variety of planned, intensive group experiences.

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