Agricultural leadership extension programs aim to expand the horizons of leaders through study and experiences. These programs can have direct implications for communities when they are designed and delivered for county officials. This study specifically examined a leadership program administered in Texas which has graduated five classes of county…

In "The Quest for Mastery," Sam M. Intrator and Don Siegel investigate an emerging trend: the growth of out-of-school programs dedicated to helping underserved youth develop the personal qualities and capacities that will help them succeed in school, college, and beyond. Intensive programs from rowing to youth radio, from lacrosse to…

Provides a design for teaching group counseling leadership skills involving cognitive knowledge, group leadership techniques, membership participation, and supervised leadership experience in a single course for graduate students. Course evaluations have indicated students benefit from the group participation and leadership experience. (JAC)

Training in perspective-taking skills (the ability to imagine how objects look relative to one another from another person's point of view) resulted in considerable transfer of learning to other tasks and continued subject superiority over controls seven months later, indicating an inter-stage change in cognition. (MJB)

A concept development program to prepare first and second grade blind children for future mobility training was established at the Illinois Braille and Sight Saving School in Jacksonville, Illinois. (Author)

This working paper is intended for inclusion in a curriculum manual for future publication, possibly in 1972. A guide for preschool teachers, it offers goals and methods designed to increase thinking power in children and given them the opportunity to express themselves in their own way. The basic elements of the Cognitive Preschool Curriculum are…

Today, this country is facing awesome challenges. Technology is changing all aspects of life, while work force requirements shift rapidly, swelling the numbers of workers who need to be retrained. At the same time, information technologies are creating changes in the automated office. Higher-level literacy is required for most workers in this…