A model comprised of five stages of faculty development is described. Individual faculty are located along a continuum, beginning at a stage where knowledge is seen as an unambiguous entity and teaching as a simple presentation of facts, and progressing to a level of more complex attitudes. Validation for and implications of the model are…

Discusses a plan for helping mid-career professionals plan for management careers. Also describes a coordinated guide on preparing an Individual Development Plan. The guide is an eight-step strategy for individuals to use in collaboration with their supervisors to develop themselves for their present and future job responsibilities. (EM)

A causal model for career choice was tested on longitudinal data from 173 students. Results showed clear sex differences. Psychological profit with regard to continued education had a clear direct effect as well as an indirect effect on career choice. (Author)

Resolutions of the 1970 national convention platform of the National Organization for Women were paraphrased to form items for the nine subscales of the Attitudes Toward Feminist Issues Scale (ATFI Scale). Students' subscale scores and total scores were submitted to a three-factor analysis of variance. Results are discussed. (Author)

This paper argues the need for curricula for women's growth, highlights the experimental curriculum, content and process, summarizes the data on the pre, post, and longitudinal measures of ego and moral maturity, and presents implications of curricula for women's growth. Prepared for the American Psychological Association, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

This study evaluated behavior change occurring after a marathon group experience, with a focus on individualized rather than shared behavioral change criteria. The individualization of behavior change criteria is based on the assertion that few, if any, single change criteria are appropriate or realistic for assessing change in all individuals.…

School can promote acceptance of feelings and ideas and help involve people in meaningful inter-personal relationships with clear reality based communication. It is the school social worker that must spear head this movement. (Author)

Considers changes which extentialist educators would make in order to reorganize the elementary and secondary school along existential lines. Discusses modifications in subject matter, group environment, and role of the teacher. (AV)

The Gray Panthers is an emerging national movement emphasizing the relationship of personal growth and self-development to pursuit of social goals. It is a coalition of old and young people working together for social change. Presented at the Gerontological Society meeting, Miami Beach Florida, 1973. (Author/JEL)

This research compares short-term variants of three approaches-Rogerian encounter, Gestalt sensory awareness, and self-directed encounter-in relation to intermember empathy and cohesiveness and outcomes of decreased feelings of alienation and increased sense of self-autonomy. All significantly decreased feelings of alienation and increased sense…

Comparing students in agribusiness sales, supply, and service courses to raw products in need of development, the author discusses the backgrounds of these students and their developing maturity through supervised occupational experience. (BM)

Two conflicting views of the Mexican-American (Chicano) family are examined. After reevaluating these earlier perspectives, a new, more objective and viable view of the family is offered. This view will hopefully transcend stultifying and stereotypical characterizations and enhance our understanding of the Chicano family. (Author)

Shows that characterizations of participants in a counseling "growth group" were more negative than those in career counseling but less negative than participants in group psychotherapy. Suggests that attempts to counteract specific negative beliefs about counseling services will increase student enrollment in the services. (RL)

While it is important to understand and accept one's own ethnic and cultural background, it is more important to aspire to personal excellence and achievement. (JD)

Notes on classroom techniques and activities through which teachers can aid students in becoming whole persons. (JT)