The English methods class should become a supportive group which encourages the introduction of real feelings, thoughts, and experiences into the learning process. Once a base of common personal experiences is established, direction can be focused inward through the use of the journal. Journal entries can provide a forum for the expression of…

Article presented a range of potential topics for local community studies. Author's intention was to assist students to become talented and insightful citizens who might build and support a community at the grass roots level. As well, these community studies provided practical situations in which theoretical information from the social sciences…

Author described competency based education-oriented academic programs and the planning for their implementation. His general purpose was to defend the use of CBE through an effective evaluation effort that would show the program was succeeding. (RK)

Contends that criticism, though it functions in the student-critic dyad as an important mode of learning, does not address vital issues of socialization and creativity confronted in collective work. Without group experience students are misled as to the functioning of the design professional within the work-client setting. (JT)

Students try to fashion for themselves a simplified and intelligible picture of the world and then to substitute that for the world of experience. Student personnel workers often resist this displacement and intervene in the development of each student. This obstructs development for some students. (Author)

The author examines three problems that must be solved if music education is to continue in schools: 1) What should be done to adapt the jargon of music for student understanding? 2) How can antipathy toward performance by students be overcome? 3) What types of music materials should be used? (Author/RK)

Mothers and fathers won't stay away from school if you encourage them to become active participants. (Editor)

College health services are usually staffed by a variety of competent professionals. Although this staff performs essential clinical services, they may be overlooked as a resource for student development. A campus that includes the health service in its total student development program by design is described. (Author)

Offers a moving portrait of their experiences as art instructors in an urban community college whose students represent the minorities of Chicago as well as those who for other reasons have been excluded from regular school experiences. Authors believe that experience in art class is helpful not only for their future as students but also as…

Did the American "Head Start" program really fail? Argues that, though it may have had no significant effect on children's performance in school, it has ultimately proved to be a major factor in increasing the confidence and competence of parents. (Editor)

Discusses the purposes of the university and the importance of the reflection of educational goals in the planning of student residential systems. Encourages active participation on the part of faculty and administration as well as students. Presented at the Big 10 Housing Officers Operations Meeting, November 16, 1976. (DOW)

Advocates focusing on the student as the center of educational efforts and as well relating programs to parents, employers, and communities. Ultimately the value of education lies in how well it helps the student to attain a sense of meaning. (DTT)

The academic advising administrator can be one of the most valuable middle managers in integrating student development concepts throughout the institution. By developing and using student information and cost/benefit units as well as streamlining registration procedures, management practices can be established which give support to faculty…

Current reports and recommendations on needed improvements in American secondary education, part of a long history of criticisms of the high school and of proposals for its reform, were discussed. (Author/RK)

In March 1974, "Instructor" interviewed Wilson Riles, California's Superintendent of Public Instruction. At that time, the state's ambitious Early Childhood Education program had not yet completed its first year. Now "Instructor" takes another look. What is the program? What has it accomplished? What are people saying about it?…