Educational philosopher Jane Martin believes educators should reconceptualize the production-oriented schoolhouse as the "schoolhome," responsible for teaching both the three R's and the three C's: care, concern, and connection (the "reproductive" aspects of society). Personal development, collaborative problem solving, and…

Describes Robert Kegan's theory of meaning-making--how individuals make sense of knowledge, experience, relationships, and the self. Applies the theory to college students and how their understanding of their experience, themselves, and their relationships with others mediates learning. Draws implications for the design of college curricular…

Highlights articles in the ERIC database on early childhood development. Topics of papers and journal articles annotated include early years language and literacy curriculum; children's temperaments; preschool mathematics; and a multilingual nursery class. (HTH)

Adolescents, especially gifted ones, may be susceptible to lack of interest in their future. Although many will develop their gifts, they may require guidance and modeling to enhance emotional, social, and philosophical growth. Suggests a team approach is needed to implement the following solutions: (a) nourish students socially, (b) teach methods…

Shows how paying attention to specific insights from the quality movement can help writing teachers rethink their own approaches to writing processes and resist the corporate takeover of institutions and students' minds. Suggests teachers revitalize their thinking about process. Discusses resisting the system. Concludes that a process approach…

Describes the author's experience of and reflections concerning a group workshop facilitated by Michael Tlanusta Garrett of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Provides information about the Native American teachings and traditions of the four winds, balance, and harmony, and discusses the use of self by group leaders as a powerful therapeutic and…

Discusses development of a Canadian web site devoted to the self-care of career counselors. Site is organized around four areas: helping oneself, helping clients, helping each other, and helping for the future. Outlines plans for future development of the web site and provides preliminary observations about its impact on the career development…

Argues that the physical and emotional experience of performing on stage is an opportunity for young female performers to gain knowledge about their gender identities. Maintains that physical learning of gendered "acts" may be part of the crisis many young women encounter in adolescence and that such "acts" can take place on…

Content analysis of essays and in-depth interviews with six women graduates of an Executive Master of Business Administration program showed how women's epistemologies, their thinking, perception, and problem-solving approaches change through time. They experienced increased confidence, cognitive flexibility, and broadened perspectives. (JOW)

A study of 50 parents of adults with disabilities investigated aspects of positive and negative adaptation to parenting stress. Responses suggested an overall pattern of "bonadaptation". Parents reported use of various cognitive coping strategies and personal growth, including increased compassion, sympathy for others, flexibility, tolerance, and…

An interview with a counselor who leads wilderness vision-quests discusses risk-taking as an element of adolescent development, the development of a fear of death, recognition of the universal nature of that fear, the lack of rites of passage in modern society, and the ways in which wilderness experiences can foster self-discovery and spiritual…

A learning activities survey was completed by 422 of 737 adults in evening classes. Perspective transformation experiences were reported by 37.3%. Learning activities that most influenced perspective transformation included reflection, teacher challenge, discussion and reading, critical thinking, personal interaction, and active participation. (SK)

Suggests the time has come for humans to direct their own individual evolution and the evolution of the entire species. Argues that ways must be found to encourage individuals, families, and cultures to discover and develop their differentiating characteristics and help these groups integrate with other cultures, customs, and belief systems.…

Narrow conceptions of human development and the purposes of schooling tend to displace rather than situate subjects like technology in the curriculum. Understanding how a utilitarian curriculum spawns real human development and learning gives a new perspective to curriculum theory and practice. (Author/AEF)

Undergraduates were divided into four groups: 76 received training and completed the Natural Growth Goals Inventory and Organizational Learning Survey as pre- and posttests; 76 completed the NGGI only; 30 the OLS only; and 75 were trained and completed posttests. Both pretesting and training had a negative or boomerang effect on perceptions of the…