Considers the way people create knowledge, the way personal knowledge grows, and the types of educative environments that are supportive to students' efforts to improve their knowledge. (GT)

The author reviews life in the 1970s and 1980s from the viewpoint of a home economist living in the future--1995. Focuses are on family and community, role of community. lifelong learning centers, the role of computers, and information retrieval. (CT)

Describes symptoms of teacher burnout, notes specific problems faced by reading teachers, and suggests ways reading teachers can treat professional burnout and enhance their personal lives. (GT)

Examines individual differences in psychological development among prospective teachers as these affect the adaptive, "person-centered" quality of their communication with students. Discusses implications of the results in terms of the impact of differences in teachers' communicative development upon development of students. (JMF)

Recounts how three publications influenced the career of a reading specialist. (JT)

Mothers were asked to predict their children's responses to standardized intelligence test items. Negative correlation was expected between inaccurate maternal knowledge of children's ability and degree of children's psychological development. False maternal predictions correlated - .80 with correct children's responses. Nearly all of the…

The history of the Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner) movement is outlined and an introduction to the philosophy and methods underlying it is given. (JD)

Reviews the demands placed on counselor-trainees. Counselor-trainees must continue to work on problems related to their own identity crises. These problems include psychosocial development, vocational development and other changing relationships. A few programs providing services are listed. (Author/BEF)

Community colleges, it is stated, are defined by outcomes as well as process: lifelong education for individual and community development. Community colleges have helped meet specific needs in their communities and many have cooperative arrangements with other organizations, agencies, and institutions in their communities. (MLW)

Allowing junior high school students more latitude in pursuing their own interests may serve to motivate them to learn. (JD)

Findings suggest that the first year of college teaches freshmen that college is not the arena where experiences, feelings and values are to be encountered and examined. The admirable goal of education of the person may instead become a fragmented and parochial experience in specialized training. (Author)

Discusses visions of self-control from the Western and Eastern traditions and suggests that neither vision represents a true reality. Precision nirvana as conceptualized here consists of applying ordinary awareness in self-management strategies, applying altered states in meditative strategies, and being able to know which mode of awareness is…

A review of the literature of the 1970s showed that individual determination in marriage continued to increase across the world, though less rapidly in the lesser industrialized nations. One concomitant of this freedom is delayed marriage and the right not to marry at all. (Author)

Law is not the command of a sovereign or the manifestation of supreme will; law is our creation. It is a means to the fullest development of individual capabilities. Dewey defines law as a process that is compatible with the philosophical outlook of a democratic society. (JN)

Explores the process by which young rural women translate adolescent aspirations for their own adult achievements and those of hypothetical "future" husbands into attainment patterns early in the life course. Stresses the influence of educational aspirations and attainment as prime factors of status attainment. (Author/JD)