Along with the implementation of curricula for art instruction, one must become more aware of and more actively involved in nurturing the role of aesthetic considerations in bringing up children and in providing the props of their pleasure and instruction as respected criteria for their decision-making. (Author)

While the elements of enjoyment, creativity, and pleasure are present in the learning process, education is basically work, and despite its joyful aspects, it is sometimes drudgery. (JD)

The basic critical issue of groups is how they can provide their participants with the opportunity for personal growth. The qualifications and training of leaders, the selection of members, the kind of interaction among members, and the carry-over from group experience to individual meaning must all be examined. (Author/JEL)

Relating the knowledge about how children learn to their concerns, interests, and needs, enables a teacher to integrate these factors to give purpose and direction to a reading program. (JD)

Summarized numerous different projects which investigated assumptions made by Carol Rogers about the necessary and sufficient conditions for significant positive change in person-to-person contact. Findings agree with Rogers' about the importance of empathy, genuineness, and respect. Presented at the Thirtieth Congress of Deutsch Gesell Schaft for…

Assertiveness training involves pursuing personal goals, protecting individual rights, and achieving results without violating the rights of others. (ABM)

The author discusses the following five primary elements which he considers as constituting the professional development process: Work assignment, coaching and supervision, career planning, education, and outside pursuits. A conceptual structure for describing professional development goals is also outlined. (TA)

Career development responsibilities of managers are addressed by (1) drawing upon traditional theory to present points toward conducting a framework for understanding adult career development, (2) discussing changes in adult work lives, and (3) outlining basic stages of progress in career development--apprenticeship, journeyman, mentor, and senior…

This paper provides an overview of the Perry Scheme for perceiving knowledge and values during the college years, and examines its use as a guide for counseling and educational practice in higher education. Paper presented at the Chicago, 1975 convention of the American Psychological Association. (Author)

A major means by which a culture maintains self-division and violence is abstraction. In the social sciences too, the process of employing abstraction to divorce us from ourselves is becoming increasingly more institutionalized. States that the meanings that emanate from some sectors of psychological research are also not congruent with human…

Tests the hypothesis that a marathon gestalt workshop would foster positive changes of personal adequacy, attitudes toward social behavior, and attitudinal qualities related to improved learning efficiency and academic achievement. Uses the California Psychological Inventory to determine any personal growth. (Author/RK)

The writer remains unconvinced that counsellors should become more like teachers, but rather suggests that they continue to relate to their clients in a very special way that helps to release their potential not only to do their own thing but also to make someone elses' thing their thing. (Author)

This article is an abstract of the doctoral dissertation selected by NASPA as the 1977 Dissertation of the Year. It concerns the identification of student activities related to developmental growth. This identification may eventually help design a campus milieu that will maximize growth. (Author)

In seven studies, 7300 U.S., 891 Iranian, 534 Indian, and 216 Ghanaese persons aged four to 99 were interviewed regarding their consciousness. There were cross-national differences. (Author)

The major approaches to faculty development are examined: the personal approach; faculty development programs; curricular changes and faculty renewal; and the humanities as a resource for faculty renewal. The value of faculty development may ultimately be in increased administrator awareness of faculty's changing needs and aspirations. (LBH)