Considers how students' mathematical thinking evolves as a result of their actions and everyday experiences and from increasing reliance on introduced mathematical principles and representations. Exemplifies how 8- to 10-year-olds' personal representations come to face with representations involving algebraic concepts. Explores implications for…

Data from 6 sites in 3 countries were examined to determine developmental course of physical aggression in childhood and to analyze linkages to violent and nonviolent offending outcomes in adolescence. Findings indicated that among boys, chronic physical aggression during elementary school years increased risk for continued physical violence and…

A collage with pictorial and verbal stimuli to assess life skills of young workers was developed using a framework for alternative assessment and stimuli instruments. The instrument was evaluated using Bloom's taxonomy for the cognitive domain and Krathwohl et al.'s taxonomy for the affective domain. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)

Continues a previous exploratory investigation of the personal changes emerging in academic writing courses in two Israeli universities where English is taught as a foreign language. Suggests that Sustained Content-Based instruction may contribute significantly to students' personal growth and relationships. (SG)

The purposes and goals of adult education and human resource development (HRD) differ and even clash. They find common ground in the personal development function but differ in the control and motivation for learning. Adult education seeks to enable learner self-determination; HRD's focus is enabling organizational control through employee…

Examines the way education in the United Kingdom is organized around the idea of passing on received wisdom, suggesting education is for life. Presents a model of the musical self to examine a range of musical experiences within the music curriculum. (CMK)

This article reviews various theories for difficulties in socioemotional functioning experienced by many deaf persons. It then proposes a 3-level model which focuses on: (1) intrapsychic processes such as self-concept; (2) reciprocal interactions between the person and the social environment; and (3) resulting memories and expectancies that affect…

Discusses the intuitive, spiritual motivations for entering the early childhood education field, considering the role of synchronicity in such career choices. Notes the similarity between the goals of the early childhood profession and the "Cultural Creatives," a sociologically identified group that integrates traditional, New Age, and personal…

Examined contention that social and intellectual development of African-American college students is nurtured better by traditionally Black colleges than by predominantly White colleges in 250 African American college students. Results did not support superiority of traditionally Black colleges. (Author/ABL)

An Afro-American woman discusses her experiences as an entrepreneur, describing the inspiration provided by her parents; the vision which enabled her to create a multi-million dollar business; the loss of her company through industrial sabotage; and her comeback as head of a seminar, speaking, and consulting firm. (JDD)

The drug addicted population is largely literate, but a low number seek education beyond high school. Education that emphasizes life not as a series of goals to be achieved but as a process of continual growth and evolution would be more effective in combating drug abuse and other forms of addiction. (SK)

A faculty member at Amherst discusses the challenges that have shaken his "self-edifice." He says there was strain "in the scrambling, adjusting, re-doing, remodeling of the mind, and in the constant collisions with past fatuity and obliviousness." Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is recommended. (MLW)

Presents a personal development model for Black elementary school children resulting from a needs survey consisting of interviews with counselors, teachers, administrators, and children. Model described includes activities for building self-confidence, career development, building social and work relationships, solving problems, study skills, and…

Describes a computerized system for collecting test scores and other data that are useful in gauging the performance of children as they progress through the South Carolina public schools. Draws implications for research best addressed with longitudinal data bases. (RH)

To achieve common goals benefiting an evolving family of nations, educators should work to integrate schooling into a worldwide system that addresses twenty-first century social, economic, scientific, and religious issues and responds to the individual cultural, social, and developmental needs of all participating nations. (MLH)