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.…

This final report of the Advisory Commission on Educational Goals for the State of Georgia discusses product goals and enterprise goals. The product goals for education in Georgia, which are directed to the development of the individual, are related to: the individual and himself, the individual and others, the individual and the governing…

The teacher center, in this paper, is defined as an "institution established within an educational renewal site designed to facilitate change in instructional personnel primarily through inservice education and training experience." The authors advise that teacher centers must attend not only to the development and remediation of teaching skills…

The major premise of this paper is that morale in retirement is achieved through involvement in intellectual, social, and physical experiences which are meaningful to the person and his social milieu. The paper posits that these experiences are to be found in continuing education. Presented are 12 hypotheses dealing with old age and the process of…

The holistic, synergistic, normative, self-actualization motivated, transpersonal psychology developed by Maslow and others has opened enormous opportunities for a new sociology, a humanistic, transcultural, value-committed sociology. Such a sociology would not have the glorification of science or knowledge for its own sake as its highest goal,…

People's incessant struggles to exercise self-control have been hindered by their misconceptions about its nature. Self-control is viewed here as a complex behavior--i.e., as a sequence of specific acts influenced by conditions both internal and external to the person. A person can exercise self-control when he has learned how to manage these…

In the Quinmester course "Man's Inner Struggle," the study of literature enables students to gain insights into some of the problems facing young people today. The course involves the following activities: (1) examining some of the problems involved in the struggle for self knowledge; (2) exploring the effects of individual and cultural…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Home economics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes a description of the philosophy of the program, program design, levels of instruction, and program of course offerings. There are two main sections: 1) general courses, including foods and nutrition, clothing,…

This paper provides a survey of models for the analysis of individual growth data emphasizing the problems posed by serial or time dependence in the application of polynomial regression models. The concepts of serial correlation and autoregressive models are illustrated. It is demonstrated that standard inference procedures may be quite misleading…

This manual was created for the practicing counselor as a supplement to whatever formal counselor training he or she may have received. It contains information regarding some of the most critical competency areas as well as a variety of other resources upon which the counselor may draw for further study or assistance. The manual is divided into 12…