Understanding both process and context is essential to resolving problems. This paper articulates the decision seminar model, a rational problem-solving technique, and uses a hypothetical policy problem to show how various stages of the model might be applied to school issues. Process facilitates problem definition, inhibits fragmentation, and…

Analyzed issues involved in making time pass as quickly as possible, a major difficulty facing draftees during initiation into the army. Using participant observation of basic training in the Israeli Defence Forces, examined cyclical perspective draftees were forced to adopt in place of usual linear one, and various ways they tried to overcome…

Although it is often useful to accept students' value statements nonjudgmentally, values clarification theory recommends that teachers go beyond moral leadership and help students learn to think through their personal values and understand what it takes to live a value-directed life. Methods to promote and clarify our "heritage of moral values"…

Describes a dynamic construct that classifies societies according to their dominant method of resolving conflict in the area of libel on a continuum from self-help to mediation, with criminal and civil law remedies between. (DF)

Examined differences between students (N=64) who appraised their problem-solving skills as positive versus negative on two career indecision instruments. Subjects who perceived themselves as positive problem solvers were more confident about their decision-making ability and occupational potential and more likely to have related their abilities to…

Five principals outline their decision-making processes, which include concerns over timing and process, teachers' well-being, deciding how to decide, student expulsion, and problem identification. (MD)

Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process. How does the school administrator balance all the needs of the various groups and still remain true to the ultimate, though most powerless constituency-the students? Through case studies and anecdotes…

Problem solving has been studied extensively for tens of years and is based on a set of generic steps. A content theme is needed for these generic skills to be used and theme-based learning was chosen to be the medium for the project Key Learning Community (KLC). This paper describes the implementation of the problem solving approach into the KLC…

The intent of this article is to explain the use of problem-solving as a curriculum theme in nursing education. (Author)

Discusses application of systems analysis to social and behavioral science as well as machine and non-machine systems. Presents rationale, principles, techniques, and advantages and disadvantages. (CJ)

Students tend to have greater feelings about vocations they reject than about vocations they are willing to accept. (Author)

An overview of a program whose design is to help the student or non student where he is in his developmental and decision making processes. (JC)

This article has attempted to provide a description of decision-making training, to present examples of how others are using this training and to suggest considerations which are important when implementing decision-making training programs. (Author)

In the study of leadership, small group formations become an important arena to observe the communications process and how leaders evolve. (Editor)