Discusses in cost/benefit terms an approach to teaching the sociology of religion which involves students in writing their religious autobiographies. Considers the nature of the assignment, level of methodological sophistication, difficulties in grading, and justification of the exercise. Concludes that the biographical approach has wide…

Black autobiographies are playing a major role in linking the black writer to his or her audience in the struggle for personal, political, and cultural independence. Each work is simultaneously a self portrait and a record of black life and culture. (Author/GC)

The author takes an autobiographical look at changes in the discipline of American geography during his career as a professional geographer from 1926-1969. He describes his experiences as a university geography professor at graduate and undergraduate levels, as a researcher, and as editor of "Economic Geography" from 1948-1969. (Author/AV)

This female sociologist notes that in contrast to male sociologists' well defined track, female counterparts have worked any unoccupied portion of the academic vineyard. (Author/AM)

Camping's benefits apply to disabled and normal children, but mean most to youngsters who lack social relationships. The influences of integrated camping and camp-related activity on a quadriplegic male student are covered in this article, including autobiographical sketches giving insight into the child's thoughts and feelings about camping. (JMM)

Describes a writing exercise useful for students who have already shown some facility in writing about personal experiences and that emphasizes the narrowing of scope and time in a reminiscence and developing it with detail in order to make it more interesting for others. (HTH)

The autobiography or personal narrative is recommended as a medium of instruction in foreign languages because it: (1) is an authentic document using language close to daily spoken language and simpler than literary language, (2) has a rich and substantial cultural content, and (3) captures the relationship between language and civilization. (MSE)

Discusses a procedure for individualizing foreign culture and language study. Students create a fictional autobiography of themselves in a foreign culture by adapting what they are learning to four simulated conditions: the physical, social, genetic, and temporal conditions which affect the life and personality of each individual in a culture.…

Intended to take the fear out of what looks like a daunting task--writing a life story--this guide helps individuals record the events of their lives for family and friends and adds to a collective history. The guide outlines a method of autobiographical writing that can be used by a class but also by an individual writing alone at home. It…

Presents and analyzes four samples of Saskatchewan spoken English, concluding that a lot of interesting material expressed in ordinary speech and language is being ignored in educational institutions. (Author/DD)

Oral history as the creation of new historical documentation, not the recording or preserving of documentation-even oral documentation-that already exists is discussed. (45 references) (Author/SJ)

The author describes his training conducted by Anna Freud and the emergence of his concepts of identity and identity crisis. He recapitulates his conceptual ancestry, insofar as it originates in psychoanalysis, in order to indicate that psychoanalysis represents a very special admixture of laboratory conditions, methodological climate, and…