This article provides a detailed description and analysis of how one Canadian institution used groups of department heads as change agents to address their most acute department head role tensions. It is demonstrated that this institution's change initiative aligned very closely to the recommendations proposed, in both the literature pertaining to…

This case study examines North Carolina State University's community-engaged scholarship faculty development program established in 2009-2010. Reflections by the program coordinators and participants reveal that the university's paradoxical identity as both a land-grant and a research institution has produced tensions in three areas: funding…

Controversy currently exists on whether boys are in crises and, if so, what to do about it. Research is reviewed that indicates that boys have problems that affect their emotional and interpersonal functioning. Psychoeducational and preventive programs for boys are recommended as a call to action in schools. Thematic areas for boys' programming…

Presents a group counseling program model for first-year women medical students used successfully at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Includes discussion of role conflicts, techniques for conflict resolution, and program evaluation. (JT)

Traditional images of women's roles are changing and program guides prepared by members of several branches of the American Association of University Women are helpful in dispelling the myths. (JB)

The benefits of day care - both to the child who receives it and to the mother who is freed by it - depends to an important degree upon helping the mother resolve her intrapsychic conflicts. This paper describes a project designed to meet the mother's needs in the day care situation. (Author/CS)

This article describes the use of drama as a technique for facilitating group discussion and understanding. The play "It's a Man's World" reverses the typical male and female roles in the business world to dramatize the sometimes discriminatory employment practices that women face in the business world today. (Author)

This paper discusses the role of the on-site consultant in a teacher-initiated change program in Cleveland's elementary schools. A local university offered 15 hours of on-site course work at each school, and the counselor was to serve as a non-directive resource person who would facilitate the process of translating course content into classroom…

The contemporary movement toward examination of one's life script gives rise to a program designed to help men think through the issues of masculine conditioning and to prepare themselves for more satisfying male roles. (Author)

Describes student and faculty experiences in a four-year or upper division degree program for registered nurses; analyzes the students' socialization (or learning roles) using a combination of two theories of social influence involving compliance, identification, and internalization; and discusses a model of planned change in professional…

The instructional materials and program described here are designed to increase the analytical ability of users in relation to role theory concepts. The program deals with sociological concepts of role conflict; conformity; concensus; and position, role, status, and identity. The concepts are to be presented in four separate filmstrips.…

Discussions and other activities designed for group learning in the areas of role behaviors, problem solving, and force field techniques are presented in this paper used as material in a workshop for student teachers. Basic to the presentation are the following premises: (1) behavior is controlled by value structure, (2) unstable values may cause…

Describes a project that attempts to evaluate the objectives of five differing preschool models in five schools in the Mount Druitt area of Sydney. Also examines senior student role conflict using an analysis of student perceptions of their actual and ideal behaviors along with the role expectations set by group members. (Author/RK)

The author examines the current literature about students and higher education discussing the major trends and ideas emerging. Emphasis on student development, special programs to serve minority students, and development of meaningful curricular environments are some of the few trends student personnel workers have been paying attention to lately.…

A program to instruct preschool teachers in a technique of interaction analysis is presented, and initial outcomes of the program are evaluated. (DB)