This account of practice describes an experiential learning approach used for enterprise and entrepreneurship education in a UK higher education setting. Module design and delivery insights are drawn from the methods employed by an entrepreneur turned educator to facilitate learning via pop-up shop/event activities financed by a £50 seed fund.…

Describes journal writing as a teaching tool used to facilitate the development of students' cognitive skills and foster intellectual growth. Includes sample syllabus instructions. (JOW)

A seven-week sequence of one-hour sessions of practice in assertiveness skills is elaborated. The mini-course is designed for the personal and professional development of senior baccalaureate nursing students. (SK)

Describes a course initiated in a small liberal arts college in order to provide an indepth study of consciousness expansion and self-awareness with particular emphasis on the guided growth of creativity. (Author)

This document describes a developmental/preventive behavioral self-control seminar which was offered to undergraduate college students through a regularly scheduled class. The course format included lectures, personal projects and group interaction, as well as reading and discussing the basic concepts of behavioral modification. Specific…

Higher education course designed to enhance personal and professional development of student personnel administrators through cognitive and affective activities. (Author)

Describes why and how Florida State developed a new career planning course that helps students formulate realistic goals. The course is designed to initiate self-motivated individual study through structured exercises, video tapes, bibliographies and guest speakers. The instructors also provide for individual counseling and discussion. (Author/PC)

Discusses how the intersection of biography and history serves as an appropriate vantage point for understanding human lives. Explains how a course which embodied this idea was developed and implemented focusing on the 1935 Vassar class. Examines oral histories as a central feature in designing and conducting the course. (GEA)

Reveals the need for departments to offer course instruction in behavioral self-change. Describes a self-change course which offers students an opportunity to apply proven psychological principles to their own lives and thus meets the need for personal relevance of education. Provides suggestions for implementation of a self-change course.…

Proposes a college course centered on research that has been done about college students. Author feels students, who are inherently interested in their own development, would thus be helped to clarify their own decision-making processes. (Author/EJT)

The author describes a procedure, Self-Awareness Through Characters in Literature (SATChL), in which certain literary works are discussed to help students clarify their own belief systems. Questionnaire revealed that SATChL was successful in significantly increasing the self-awareness of students. (SE)

The aim of this article is to describe and analyze the undergraduate Social Foundations course I taught at an urban, inclusive university that attempted to provide students with, among other things, a forum for them to develop both a self-confident personal voice and a view of self as potential change agent of schools. In brief, with what I term…

Standard logic courses are seen as unsuitable for liberal arts curricula because they emphasize the formal logic of calculative thinking. To develop the capacity of students to make moral decisions, logic courses should emphasize thinking skills based on informal logic or rhetoric, a logic of practical reasoning and communication. (Author/MLW)

The study of literature is seen as one of the best ways to bring students through the curriculum to recognize and grapple with the moral dimension of human life. Such a focus for a basic course is especially important when students take only one literature course. (Author/MLW)

This paper describes the methods used to teach identity formation in a college course entitled "Identity and Society," through an exploration of the autobiographies of several prominant Americans. The three phases of an autobiographical approach to one's present identity are discussed as the search for facts according to criteria, illustrated by…