Describes how this program creates the conditions which can allow for shifts in feeling--emotional style which in turn, can allow for the acquisition of new knowledge and behavior change. (Author/AM)

This paper describes a career development program designed to meet the needs of secondary school students. The course was designed to involve the individual in the process of influencing his future. The program seemed highly successful the first year but encountered numerous problems the second year. Implications are discussed. (NG)

A continuation of articles on "May 7" cadre schools includes discussion on (1) transforming your world outlook while doing manual labor, (2) maintaining close contact with the masses, and (3) studying Mao's philosophy and applying it to transform your world outlook. (ND)

The article describes a graduate level, inservice program for improving teacher competence, broadly defined in terms of personal growth, in which student decision-making, collegial teaching, and the generation of ideas from personal experience are used to develop competencies to plan and bring about educational change at the preschool-elementary…

Based on the idea that the most important foundation of education is character development, this book guides teachers and parents in building strong character traits while reading and discussing popular books. Children's books and young adult books draw students into discussions that can lead to action and to personal development. Thoughtful…

The Community Voices and Character Education (CVCE) Project presents a model for moral education that is based on four ideals: (1) the consensus among leaders worldwide on the necessary characteristics of a citizen in the new century; (2) the conception of human goodness from moral philosophy; (3) conclusions from social sciences about what helps…

This study explored children's changing conceptualizations of goal as they engaged in repeated sessions of strategy game set-up and play. Twenty-four children, aged 7 to 9, were divided into 2 groups. Each participant in the first group played a novel strategy game once a day for 5 days. Measures of game performance were collected from this group.…

The past 15 years have brought a re-evaluation of women's adult development in light feminist thinking. However, many outdated assumptions in psychological theory remain comfortably ensconced; to challenge these ideas, some misrepresentations of women's experience are examined. The focus is on Erik Erikson's explanation of the second stage of…

This study examined the development of infants in day care and explored how their development varied as a function of hours spent in day care. Thirty-one day care providers completed a competence rating scale for 3 of the infants in their class. Results indicated no significant correlation between the number of hours an infant spends in day care…

This paper explores the relationship between experiential learning theory and outdoor management training, and describes a British outdoor management program grounded in adult learning theory. An introduction explores competing paradigms in management education: the managerialist perspective, which focuses on development of skills and…

The importance of maintaining students' interest in art is underscored by the decline in both self-confidence and interest in art that children commonly begin to display during middle childhood. This study explored developmental differences in art motivation, investigating whether the expected decline could be explained by changes in beliefs…

During the past two decades, a convincing body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that unless children achieve minimal social competence by about the age of 6 years, they have a high probability of being at risk into adulthood in several ways. This digest presents a checklist of attributes of child social behavior that teachers are encouraged…

How do people whose identities appear so deeply connected to the land they love engage in environmentally harmful activities? This paper explores this question, presenting selected research on children's moral relationships with nature and examining the boundaries of the moral domain to more precisely delineate relations between moral constructs.…

Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH) programs treat adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and substance abuse problems using wilderness therapy and related therapeutic and educational curricula. Elements of OBH are designed to reveal and address problem behaviors, foster personal and social responsibility, and enhance clients' emotional growth.…

Legal and political theorists strive at expanding the scope of children's rights to cover further areas of their lives and choices. This paper suggests that this effort is misguided, and that the protection of children requires instituting adults' obligations, rather than broadening children's rights. Contrary to the common theoretical and…