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MY AIM IN THIS PRESENTATION IS TO DESCRIBE the experiences of different Study Groups of COPE, to inform you of their methods of investigation, and particularly the problems they met and the solutions they employed. It is my hope that this review will provide some perspectives for an evaluation of the problems that face us today, as was true of the review of the first two years of COPE by Bonnett (1962).
COPE'S first Study Group explored the topic of curriculum. A conflict of interest, to be repeated many times in the history of COPE, between long-range studies and action-directed recommendations was immediately evident. A second conflict, somewhat related to the first, appeared later between investigation of the topic of curriculum by members of the Study Group alone as opposed to seeking information (as one of several goals) via conferences with representatives of institutes. Over the years the different Study Groups of COPE have made compromises regarding these two central conflicts, with the general emphasis being in favor of long-range studies by members of Study Groups working alone.
Although conferences between institute representatives and the Study Group of Curriculum were mutually stimulating (Astley, 1962); (Kohut, 1962), progress stopped at one point over the issue of