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…

Recounts the importance of books and reading in the childhood and later life of the author, describes the social and educational environment of New Zealand in the 1930s, discusses the fate of reading in the education of contemporary children, and recommends a renewed emphasis on books and reading in education. (JL)

Examines these questions: What are life histories? What problems and people are best suited for them? What motivates people to write them? Does the collection procedure affect the content? and How should the material be analyzed? (Author/SK)