An effective professional development program for administrators must be based on an up-to-date understanding of why each administrator's position exists and how it fits into the organizational framework. The thesis of this paper is that the role expands upon the purpose of the individual in the organization, while the job description itemizes…

The investigation of the impact of the "growth" approach, based on humanistic or Third Force psychology, involved developing a "growth" model based on humanistic psychology, pilot "testing" the model, and drawing implications regarding the model's potential for inservice education. The data indicated that the "growth" approach to inservice…

This article describes a health education class in which the students actively engage in improving their own health by physical activity and good nutrition. They are graded on the success of the program they undertake by clear proof of better physical condition. (JD)

Examines the finding that correlations between scores on repeated administrations of intelligence tests are higher for retarded children than they are for normal children. Discusses the developmental and educational implications of this finding. (BD)

This paper discusses aspects of middle age and outlines the common experience of women and men who were young in the late 1940's and 50's. (SB)

A sequential program is outlined for improving the behavior of students in school. (JD)

Discusses the use of a dialectical approach to personality assessment and psychotherapy. Focusing on the concept of change, a dialectical approach would emphasize the person as process, would focus on growth, and would emphasize treatment of clients within the context of other human relationships. (BD)

Drawing on experience with pre-retirement programs in Ontario's Ministry of Education, the author suggests guidelines and resources for programs involving personal study, personal counseling, and classroom/group situation. (JT)

Planning includes efforts to have instruction in physical education coincide with related units in other subjects. (PBS)

Suggests that in contrast to art as "recess" creating a collective mural is a process of self-exposion and conquest. The child's image expands not only to arm's reach size, but to the size of the whole wall. For once the child is acting on his own environment rather than being acted on. (Author/AM)

The author proposes a series of rooms (including Common Sense Room, Fantasy Room, Excavation of Dead Days Room, etc.) for personal growth and development. (MB)

Describes the pattern of psychological and spiritual evolution in the consciousness of many of the black characters in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," by Ernest J. Gaines. (GW)

The study discussed here attempts to shed further light on the influences that differences in characteristics of personal-growth group participants have on the quality of their experiences. (Author)

Denying the value of death but accepting its reality, the author points to dying, not death, as the problematic phenomenon with which a pragmatist thanatology must deal. It is suggested that dying contains opportunities for growth--for the dying as well as for their surviving friends and relatives. (Author)

Responds to Caple's presentation by centering on the issue of equilibrium and disequilibrium. Discusses Caple's theory in terms of Piaget's model of human development. Poses questions about the effects of student services and service delivery. (ABB)