I reflect on the preceding five contributions in this issue by focusing on the power dimensions of participation. I emphasize how power underlies and frames not only the activities and management of participatory development, but also our own personal/institutional involvement as development researchers and workers. I end with some thoughts on…

Counselor educators and supervisors can enhance the group supervision process by intentionally selecting expressive arts activities designed to help supervisees develop personal awareness. Expressive arts activities also can serve to increase group understanding and cohesion. The authors provide a rationale for using expressive arts in…

This resource book reflects the way that migration affects personal identity and offers educators and students the resources to examine this migration through methods of storytelling. It reveals experiences of immigrants from the individual to the collective through memoirs, journalistic accounts, and interviews. These experiences reflect a recent…

Following 11-98 weeks of inpatient residential treatment, 69 male adolescent sex offenders completed the 60-item, 12-factor Yalom Card Sort. The rank orders were compared to adult sex offenders and a psychiatric adult outpatient group. Relative to adult psychiatric outpatients, the adolescent sex offenders had rated Instillation of Hope three…

Instructors and trainers are increasingly using online education and technology-mediated learning (TML) to supplement or replace traditional approaches to classroom teaching. Because mandatory involvement requirements may not intrinsically motivate learners to achieve high quality learning, social factors with commitment, such as identification…

Within the group therapy literature scapegoating is understood as an unconscious process that plays an important function in preventing groups from being split asunder as a result of unexpressed frustration towards the leader. When a group successfully challenges its leader to share power, the need for a scapegoat passes. In the search for theory…

The Air Force outdoor recreation program evolved from the Army "rest and recreation" areas set up during World War II. During the last decade, financial pressures and eroding support for recreation programs forced a reexamination of the objectives of such programs. Starting with the premise that the Air Force was the main customer and…

This paper argues that the realities of school restructuring in Canada are experienced and perceived differently among different teachers, by the same teachers at different times, and between teachers on the one hand and students on the other. Realities of restructuring are often divergent and dissonant in nature. No one group has an inherently…

This book provides a view of community that educators can use to define and build community in their schools. Chapter 1 critiques the traditional view of schools as formal organizations and offers a theory of community as an alternative. Chapter 2 describes a pattern of relationships characteristic of communities, which can be applied to…

A discussion of the privileges, immunities, and exemptions of which academic life once consisted suggests an erosion of the old code of academic honor on which those privileges rested. (JH)

A selection, slightly revised, from Children's Views of Foreign Peoples: A Cross National Study, by Wallace E. Lambert and Otto Klineberg. N.Y., Meredith Publishing Co, 1967.

This paper attempts to assess the extent to which multiculturalism in Canada is fact (sociological reality), fancy (ideology), or policy. First, the actual observability of separate ethnic groups is considered. Some factors in the persistence of cultural identity are discussed. These include ethnic visibility, replenishment through continued…

This report summarizes two studies conducted as part of a continuing research program designed to examine relational perceptions in dyadic communication contexts. A mutual-causal, relational paradigm tested the nature of interpersonal solidarity in dyads consisting of acquaintances, co-workers, family members, and friends. Results of both studies…

This study examined the sequence of prereading and group consensus as techniques facilitating learning in a structured laboratory. The basic hypothesis examined is that (1) the sequence of prereading and (2) the requirement of consensus in group decisions facilitate learning. To test the hypothesis a structured laboratory was run with 73 foremen…

The purpose of this study was to determine the cohesiveness and attitudes of students who had been assigned to their living units according to Holland's Theory and to determine the influence on academic achievement. According to Holland a person's behavior can be explained by the interaction of his personality pattern with his environment. The…