1974 ATM Annual Conference Report Social Responsibility
Abstract
ATM Annual Conference Report Social Responsibility SAGE Publications, Inc.1974DOI: 10.1177/135050767400500305 Colin Hutchinson Judi Marshall Cary L.Cooper When the committee planning the 1974 Annual Conference on Social Responsibility first met, we were able to draw on the evaluation report on the previous conference which had been concerned with "Learning about Learning". Clearly our conference programme had to incorporate not only the sound design features from the previous year but also ideas contained in the conference papers. We decided that the dilemma of choice was preferable to the inevitable criticisms that arise when everybody works solemnly through a single programme. Three options were identified - listening to speakers, then asking questions; participating in simulations and discussing case studies; and drawing on personal information, attitudes and knowledge to learn from one's own experience. These became the three streams offered to conference participants, and which posed for some the dilemma of choice. Philip Sadler agreed to co-ordinate the Speakers Stream and prepared a programme which covered most of the important and topical issues which relate to social responsibility. Michael Bassey not only investigated teaching material available in the U.K. and U.S.A., but prepared a summary of his findings and wrote a simulation