There is a major project in India to collect data for the generation of developmental norms of children from 2 1/2 to 5 years of age. The pilot study of this project, whose main objective was the adaptation of measures of developmental parameters to the unique needs of India, was reported to PS 003 284. The present document reproduces a study that…

The Teacher Personal Growth Materials, of which this manual is a part, were prepared in the belief that the teacher's feelings are an important component of her teaching and are therefore a legitimate concern of teacher education. Prospective teachers have many questions, usually unasked and unanswered, about their relationship with their…

The author, believing that all therapies can have the goal of progessive awareness and growth toward self-actualization, discusses a multi-dimensional system of therapy based on the belief that each person is a unique human being seeking fulfillment. Actualization therapy is considered on two dimensions: (1) the philosophical dimension which…

The data in this report were compiled as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education to assess the impact of different types of college environments on students' development, and to provide up-to-date source of data about the population of US college…

The basic assumption of the "new direction" in art is that US society treats persons as fragmented slivers of themselves and not as whole human beings, and its social impact is therefore a struggle to live. A happening is an experience that jerks one into the awareness of his environment. Living theater challenges the restrictions placed upon us…

Following a pilot study between 1965 and 1967, the Counseling Center at Kansas State University initiated a 3-year mental health project to identify integrative experiences --those that lead toward more creative and fully functioning individuals-- of college students, and to communicate interpretative reports on the data collected to the academic…

This study was designed to determine some of the educational characteristics associated with the construction of the independent student. Toward this end, 35 grade eleven teachers in an innovative school system were requested to supply the names of five independent, self-directed students and five not-independent, not-self-directed students. A…

The Commission on Student Participation in University Life at Miami University examined many dimensions of student life and university affairs with the objective of providing a framework within which a student may accept greater responsibility for the consequences of his own behavior and for planning his own future. In this statement, the…

This report describes a human relations training methodology which shows the basic importance of attuning students to their own private world of stimulation and is the cutting edge of the motivation to learn. The study includes four sections: (1) methodology of personal growth training, (2) an explanation of why such an intensive method of…

Dealing with program ideas for secondary school youth, this book is a companion volume to the 1954 Yearbook of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, and is intended to speak to teachers and supervisors of health, physical education, and recreation. The book is divided into five parts, each containing chapter…

Forty University of Toledo Teacher Corps interns (23 black and 17 white) were asked to respond to a Rokeach Value Survey on the first day of regular classes, at the end of the year, and at the end of the program. The objective was to examine what significant value changes, if any, took place during the program. Results are assessed according to…

The Counselor Education Department at the University of Houston has developed an affective training program for counselor education at the graduate level. The goals of increasing self exploration and interpersonal effectiveness are achieved through the following experiences: a retreat, psychological assessment, modular learning and videotape…

This report discusses an ego-oriented therapeutic approach developed for the fragile patient who needs to learn how to deal with the anxiety that feeds into a drug addiction problem. Through controlled thought and perception, he is helped to channel his anxiety into growth by employing the perceptual senses to redirect energy away from the need to…

This document briefly summarizes the Kansas Model for career education. The model is explained through comparisons with other models, and through a brief description of its two-dimensional structure of process phases on one side and four career components on the other side (self, work, leisure, resources). The process itself is a decision-making…

This paper briefly reports on a two-hour workshop aimed at helping college students clarify values in selecting an employment setting. The module was presented to four subgroups of fifty-eight community college students. Each individual, with the assistance of his group, decided what was important for him or her in selecting an employment setting.…