This proceedings contains transcripts, presentations, and workshop summaries from a 2-day conference on experiential learning in youth development, held by the Brathay Hall Trust in the English Lake District. Brathay is a British educational charity that offers a variety of youth development courses, ranging from outdoor adventure activities to…

Deals with some of the important relations between mother and environmental factors in their effects on an infant somatic and behavioral development. (Author/JM)

Discusses some possible answers to basic questions concerning career education, its implementation, and its cost. (Author/NJ)

Participation training is a process of open communication and personal interaction. This process provides an opportunity for all FFA members from green hands on up to gain experience in group decision-making. (Author/KP)

Presents the rationale for deliberate psychological education as a mode for individual, direct and developmental intervention in schools. Following the rationale, a detailed description is given of classroom learning experiences actually employed to achieve the overall objectives of psychological maturation of pupils. (LA)

Considered the blend of humanities and traditional curriculum as a necessary part of the school responsibility. (RK)

Author suggested the direction he believed education should take and considered the role of administrators and teachers in influencing students to be more independent, educated individuals. (Author/RK)

Suggested activities to increase children's awareness of themselves, their families, human emotions, conflicts, and cooperation. (ST)

Analyzes the effect recordkeeping has when it is designed to assess children's problem-solving and thinking processes over time. (Author/RK)

This is a position paper on the place of training in group process and participation in groups as part of teacher education. (Editor/RK)

A plea for adults to respect children's growth patterns and to realize that a child's feelings about himself will determine, in large part, his ability to cope with his world. (Author/ST)

Social action is built upon models of social choice. The conversion of simple ideas of choice into an extensive technology is a major achievement, but it is one that has reinforced some biases in the models of choice in individuals and groups. (Author)

Discussed are first, the assumptions in stratification literature about the social position of women; second, some problems of reconceptualization and, third, some contributions to the understanding of society which may result from studying women in the stratification system. (Author)