Much recent debate has suggested Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) teachers not only need new knowledge and skills but need to perform their professional practices in new ways and in new contexts. What this debate has failed to recognize is that these change discourses are in effect constructing new professional identities for…

Many people come to analysis appearing quite ordinary on the surface. However, once below that surface, there often appear extraordinary protections created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. This book investigates the development and function of these protections, allowing the reader to…

This study examined the degree to which religion is perceived as a source of stress and as a coping resource among Jewish students. Subjects, 75 sixth- through eighth-grade students in a Midwestern city, completed a survey in Sunday school. Twenty of the students also responded to a structured interview about their stressors and coping strategies.…

This paper looks at three parties impacted by adoption: the adoptive parents, the adopted child, and the adoptive family. When working with adoptive parents, counselors should respect the strength of the couple, their commitment to parenthood, and the closeness that may develop from weathering the issue of childlessness. Adoptive parents are…

Argues that there is a distinctively American way of thought, character, and conduct which ought to include experiences of black people. (Author/JM)

Article written two years ago for the New York Times" by a young Polish American, a member of a Baltimore community organization, and a representative from the First District on the Baltimore City Council. (JM)

Offers guidelines for educators in the affective domain of socialization, democratization, values in education, and morality. (Author/DN)

Males were found more likely than females to identify themselves as coming from an African family background, and those who identified themselves as American achieved higher grades, in a group of Negro Americans enrolled in a remedial junior college program who were investigated. (RJ)

Reviews two new books that argue for the political implementation of cultural pluralism in the United States: Peter Schrag's The Decline of the Wasp," and Michael Novak's The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics." (Author/JM)

Discussion based on premise that self worth and ability to love are learned, are essential learnings for survival, and that educational system needs to look at them as major aims. (Author)

Distinction is made between self (self as a subject) and self-concept. (MB)

Speech by New York University School of Education professor at the Consultation for Educational Justice sponsored by the New York City National Council of Churches. Discusses high school unrest as indicating the need for redistributing power throughout the schools, and the crisis of legitimacy of the schools. (JM)