May Sarton's novel, "Kinds of Love" serves as a text for the study of gerontology and human development, allowing examination of the nature of human change and psychosocial development over time. (SK)

Develops a typology of learning for volunteering, including the types of learning (instrumental, communicative, emancipatory) and examples of formal, nonformal, informal, and incidental education that take place with each. (SK)

A specialized apperception test for physically impaired adolescents was developed. Cards depicting various scenes with physically impaired male and female models were designed to elicit themes relevant for adolescent populations. Two raters evaluated how well each card elicited issues identified in the literature as pertinent to physically…

Puts forth a rationale for including poetry in academic journals, demonstrating how it can create new knowledge. Includes five poems by the author. (SK)

The dominance of rational logic as a way of making meaning is yielding to vision logic, associated with deepening spirituality. Adult education should be grounded in depth psychology, or the psychology of the soul, a way of being and knowing. (SK)

Reviews theoretical models of the imaginary audience and the personal fable and the empirical data pertaining to each model. Highlights problems surrounding the two most commonly used measures. Outlines directions for future research, so that a better understanding of the imaginary audience and personal fable, and their roles in adolescent…

A literature review found some evidence of the effects of career development programs on recidivism. Interviews with prison psychologists and educators identified current programs that target career issues and take into account the unique characteristics of prisoners and the types of interventions that work with them. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

Responds to Noam's (PS 524 984) and Cicchetti's (PS 524 985) articles in this issue. Suggests that researchers should turn to the coactions of the internal and the external constraints on development that codetermine performance. States the position that cognitive developmental theory, when sensitized to intra- and interindividual differences,…

Investigates the roots and branches of experiential learning. Uses some of the traditional philosophical roots of adult education, progressive, humanist, and radical, to explore the roots of experiential learning. Explores the branches by using the four-village model proposed by Weil and McGill (1989). (Author/YDS)

Insights from the articles in this issue highlight (1) the pivotal role of presentational knowing in collaborative inquiry; (2) personal development and action; (3) roles for adult educators in inquiry groups (full participant, external facilitator, multigroup coordinator); and (4) creation of supportive structures for collaborative inquiry.…

The third of three articles considers the necessary, which lies in the realm of awareness. Discusses the nature of awareness and its relationship to mathematics learning. (MM)

This article analyses the way in which Piaget links the analogy between the child and the primitive with a theory of the history of the sciences, that is, it analyses Piaget's version of Haeckel's principle in which ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis. From this analysis, we reconstitute the operations through which Piaget forms and expresses…

This article asks whether a project in Canada could have any implications for schools in England. It is concerned with the ultimate challenge for teachers: not just how to create positive, healthy relationships with excellent educational progress in a "failing" school where they are conspicuously lacking, but how to do so in a lasting,…

The multiple and conflicting identity pressures that young women in western society face have been remarked upon in the literature. Adolescence is a time when identity development activity intensifies, and this process can present young people with challenges. In this paper a social constructionist and interpretive frame is applied to such…

This article emerged in the course of a doctoral study that focused on the role of literary and filmic texts in constructing adolescent girls' subjectivities and desires for womanhood. Analysing data drawn from both text and subject, the study focused on the discursive choreography of girls' imaginary constructions of their mature adult selves.…