Studies how a self-help group can facilitate parents' mourning process following a stillbirth. With family-to-family contact and group discussions, the reality of the stillbirth is validated, the empty feelings of the loss the parents are experiencing are acknowledged, and the guilt the couples are feeling is eased. (Author)

This study represents one effort to systematically examine concrete instances in well-defined settings, with some knowledge of the variables involved--the input as well as the feedback and the output of the encounter groups. (Author/KMG)

Describes an activity in which students formulate their own questions and design investigations to answer them through a field trip to an amusement park. Cooperative learning groups of three or four students select one ride to investigate, then propose a question with an independent variable and a resulting dependent variable supporting their…

A participant-observation study in a South African mining company that used self directed work team training identified organizational constraints that hindered training effectiveness: lack of materials, machinery breakdown, decentralized budget, and imposed standards. Miners more often used improvisation and initiative to solve daily problems,…

The 11th annual survey of employer-provided training includes "The Budget Blahs" (Lee); "What Employers Teach" (Filipczak); and "Work Teams: How Far Have They Come?" (Gordon). (SK)

Established in 1894, the Naugatuck (Connecticut) Women's Study Club is an example of the women's groups that seemed to spring up simultaneously in the late 19th century across the United States. Founded for the purpose of "promoting general intelligence and culture," these clubs were established by pillars of the community and included…

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which students with A, B, C, and D grade averages in high school perceived that they had the skills of self-direction and to determine the relationship between these skills and student achievement. (Author)

"Phase I" describes the initial 11 weeks of study in the M.D. training program offered by the Faculty of Medicine of McMaster University. This 3-year program stresses the responsibility of students for their own education, encourages self-directed learning, and offers little didactic instruction. (Editor/PG)

Written in response to T. G. McGee's recent discussion of the "peasants in cities" paradox (see EJ080361), this article argues that a modified version of Eric Wolf's definition of "peasants" is the most useful one currently available. (Author/KM)

T. G. McGee responds to Barry Isaac's article (RC501590), which discusses McGee's earlier article (see EJ080361) defining "peasants in cities". (KM)

Japan Air Lines has developed a training technique called "unprogramed instruction" in which the trainees set up the schedule and training objectives with the instructor. Advantages and limitations of the self-directing method are presented. (MW)

Author suggested a modification in teacher education that might help to improve efforts at nurturing the individual potentials of students. (Author/RK)

Approximately 50 workers from a variety of academic and professional fields came together at the Tufts Seminar to Initiate New Experiments in Undergraduate Instruction to discover, discuss, and explore some of the problems of undergraduate education and to suggest new or alternate ways that might be tried to meet these problems. The seminar saw…

A model is proposed for utilizing some of the techniques of the laboratory method (sensitivity training and training group procedures) in a college reading and study skills course. A structure of traditional lecture sessions on study skills combined with modified training-group sessions is the suggested approach. A reading course utilizing some…

The Detroit Center for Professional Growth and Development provides a model for teacher controlled teachers' centers. The center's success, in terms of resource provision and teacher involvement, could serve as a reminder to other centers that have been reluctant to give control to teachers. (Author/GC)