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Agada, John – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1984
Reviews personality studies examining relationship between personality and choice of librarianship as profession and observes changes in theories and methods of measurement that have taken place over past 35 years. A brief overview of different approaches to understanding personality and summary of theories of vocational choice are presented. (72…
Descriptors: Career Choice, History, Learning Theories, Librarians
Download full textBureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
The subject of objectives in character education was discussed in a report of progress to the National Education Association, July, 1924. While this topic is not treated separately in this report, the general point of view of the 1924 report is maintained in Chapter 1, The Processes of Character Education, and is restated briefly and discussed at…
Descriptors: Educational History, Values Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Values
Peer reviewedBrownell, Judith – Communication Education, 1979
Describes Elwood Murray's Interdisciplinary Analogue Laboratory which was designed to identify analogous structures occurring in different fields of education. These basic structures could then serve as foundations of an integrated curriculum where students would be encouraged to view their subjects of study relationally. (JMF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, General Education, Higher Education, Information Theory
Peer reviewedOverstreet, R. Larry – Central States Speech Journal, 1978
Descriptors: Historical Reviews, Individual Characteristics, Language Arts, Leadership Styles
Neumann, Henry – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The purpose of this bulletin is to stimulate the thought of teachers in discovering their innumerable opportunities for quickening the conscience and clarifying the moral vision of their pupils. The attention of teachers is here directed also to the other reports of the commission, in which are elaborated many of the ideas presented in this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Human Dignity, Personality, Values Education
Peer reviewedKagan, Jerome – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Reflects on researchers' conceptions about psychological growth over the last century. Discusses five themes relevant to developmental research: (1) the selection of phenomena for study; (2) the use of continuous dimensions or categories to describe children's characteristics; (3) continuity versus discontinuity in development; (4) the influence…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Child Development, Classification, Developmental Continuity
Peer reviewedMetzger, Walter P. – Academe, 1986
The role of the American Association of University Professors leadership during 1949-1955 is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administration, Civil Liberties, College Faculty
Klein, Arthur J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
The administrators and faculties of higher educational institutions are frequently so engaged in the problems of individual institutions that they do not find time nor occasion to take stock at periodic intervals of the activities and general progress of the universities and colleges of the United States. The author was tasked to prepare this…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Teaching Methods
