Adaptation of an address given on March 29, 1971 at the opening of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado. (Editor)

Using part of a school field, English students surveyed a small plot of ground primarily for mapping purposes. This, in turn, led to an investigation of plant, animal, and insect life and accompanying development of awareness skills. (BL)

Noting that blind children perceive through their four senses other than vision, the author advocates their learning by tactual perception. (CB)

The purpose of this exposition is to present a point of view regarding the differentiation of the counselor's role from other related helping professions, keeping the major function of counseling central in the argument. (Author/BY)

This study reveals that counselors are more perceptive of the principals' expectations than any other group. When counselors were compared with teachers, some 20 role conflicts were identified. Parents expectations and counselors expectations of parents were significantly different on 22 roles. (Author/CJ)

The need for approval and sex role is at best difficult to demonstrate in an adolescent population; the relationship may be limited to elementary aged children, if it occurs at all. Bibliography. (Author)

Self esteem was shown to be associated more closely to high sex role orientation for boys and low sex role adoption for girls; while father identification, for boys only, was related to moderate levels of sex role orientation and sex role preference. Bibliography. (Author)

The tendency for child and adult listeners to label vocal communications as reflecting an excess of either positve or negative emotion was investigated by using tapes of child and adult speakers...subjects were asked to identify which emotion each speaker was attempting to communicate. (Author)

The conservation of distance and of length and the awareness of the horizontal and of the vertical do seem to significantly precede the measurement of length, but the results did not indicate that these four tasks have any developmental order among themselves. Bibliography, charts. (Author)