An evaluation model was designed to be a self-evaluation component to be used in conceptualizing and implementing personal and professional development plans. The personality dynamics model itself, beyond its theoretical bases, includes the following techniques to assist the individual in the self-evaluation process leading to plan development:…

A scale was constructed to test Hershenson's 1968 formulation that in vocational development, self-differentiation precedes competence, which precedes independence, which in turn precedes commitment. Staff ratings on scale items related to each stage were made on 222 clients in a deaf rehabilitation project, who were divided into high- and…

Presents a rationale for teaching creative dramatics and suggests that it can be an important avenue for self-exploration and discovery since it involves the self physically and emotionally, as well as verbally and cognitively. (RB)

Author makes the point that there is a need for a comparative perspective with which to develop and refine effective prescriptions in education. He suggests that comparative education can provide for this need. (Author/RK)

Article presented the attitudes of students and teachers toward community college objectives, considered data taken on the subject, and dispelled some myths on the mission of the community college. (RK)

Described some principles underlying a concept which involves a community college without walls - a Community Renewal College. (Author/RK)

Author, a member of the California State Legislature from the 24th Assembly District, discussed the necessity for making the educational environment more human and for developing the individual. (Editor/RK)

Author discusses the mental characteristics and moral development of later adolescents and the process of maturing. (GB)

This article isolates and analyzes several philosophical misinterpretations of the philosophy of freedom in education current in the free school movement. (Editor)

Discusses Burton White's work on expanding the basic knowledge of how children develop and what he calls "the laws of optimal development". (GB)

This article presents a rationale which supports the premise of the active inclusion of counselors in the middle school program if the program is to gain any measure of success in meeting the complete needs of the student. (Author)

A summary of the experiences of a counselor educator while introducing psychological education into a counselor education curriculum and an assessment of that curriculum. (JC)

Author compares his philosophy on training which heheld twelve years ago with that he believes currently. (RK)

Self-discovery through shared adventure is the goal of students of the rugged Outward Bound wilderness experience. (Author)

The elementary teacher's positive self concept feeds the child's positive self concept. The writer contends that the process is also reversed. (Author/JB)