There has been considerable talk about the future of research and practice in education. Occasionally the discourse tends to the euphoric, sometimes it strays more to the dystopic. Public debates often explore how educators can and should meet society's demands in the globalised, interconnected geopolitical situations of today. Voiced concern…

As climate change contracts our environment, bringing human and nonhuman communities into increased contact and conflict over scarce resources, advocacy rhetoric is making a related shift, from raising human awareness of problems "out there" to renegotiating the very boundaries between human and nonhuman communities. This shift--along…

This article presents the authors' reflective annotations on becoming a scholar. This paper begins with a discussion on socialization for teaching, followed by a discussion on socialization for service and sense of belonging. Then, it describes how the doctoral process evolves. Finally, it talks about adult learners who pursue doctoral education.

Studio STEM adopts a design studio model to provide middle school youth with the opportunity to work with peers and college student facilitators after school in a relaxed, non-threatening, collaborative environment. Two informal learning educators guided overall instruction and pacing, but youth directed their own step-by-step activities by…

Discusses inadequacies of traditional white-oriented psychotherapeutic programs, and reports on success achieved with an all-black girl clientele in a group home staffed completely by blacks. (Author)

The author contends that American society has experienced a developmental change in that the search for identity now takes priority over the achievement of specific goals; he describes a program designed to help Black students find their identity through a group setting. (Author/HMV)

The use of the "surrogate self" in counseling is a simple Gestalt-like role-playing technique (Perls 1969) that can be especially effective when the client has begun to see the counselor as a trusted, caring, and understanding person. The role-playing is described. (Author/EJT)

Use of the life history technique with the elderly is described in two settings--in a university class and in a class of senior citizens. The technique helps the elderly to record and interpret their histories, to make intergenerational connections, and to experience the continuity of their lives. (Author)

This study was designed to determine whether a training program which focuses primarily on interpersonal relationships, communication and observation skills, and knowledge and understanding of both one's own behavior and that of others would increase the empathetic ability of psychiatric aides. Two studies were conducted. A pilot study was done to…

The Lost Adolescence Syndrome is described. Its usefulness as a diagnostic tool for the marriage and family counselor is elaborated upon. Implications for therapy are discussed. (Author)

This paper describes a simulation experience to help people understand the feelings of the elderly through a program conducted by the Jewish Center for Aged in Chesterfield, MO. The four-hour program is divided into four sections: (1) a true-false test is given to assess participants' concepts of the aged; (2) inhibitors are applied to limit…

Over the past five years the author has taught approximately 1000 students in experientially-oriented courses on the divorced and the widowed; of these 1000, about 300 were divorced women. Many of these divorcees (but not all, by any means) have shown considerable change in self image from the start to the end of the course. These changes are…

A preventive program in the area of identity formation, offered in the form of two-credit academic courses, is presented. A theoretical framework, based on the work of Marcia and his collaborators, delineates four identity "statuses" based on whether the individual has considered various alternatives and then made a commitment to a particular…

The efforts and experiences of some day care centers and other preschool groups in trying to free children from sex roles are discussed. The booklet is organized under the following topics: (1) teaching sex role stereotypes--the ways adults consciously and unconsciously teach them; (2) confronting children's acts of exclusion--experiences in…

Problems encountered in a psychiatry clerkship when the medical student identifies in various ways with his psychiatric patients are described. The patterns of this identification process and the effects on student-patient interaction are included. The students were enrolled at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. (Author/JMD)