College athletic participants and nonparticipants (n=651) were compared to determine whether participating in intercollegiate athletics affected self-esteem. College attendance was shown to have positive effect but was only significant in the senior year for participants. College athletic participation appeared to be one of many college…

Relates a preschool teacher's personal experiences and feelings about professional growth and development. Discusses the concept of professionalism, experiences illustrating the process of becoming a professional, negative aspects of professionalism, and the realization of professionalism. (TJQ)

Surveys of 76 community leadership programs in 1990 and 130 in 1993, participant observation, and 25 interviews found community members involved in leadership after program participation because of feelings of responsibility. They suggested better participant selection and attention to program length and design and noted that willingness to become…

Subtle signs of change to which continuing higher education must respond include the global interconnected network; replacement of linear, top-down thinking with interrelatedness and connection; human potential for higher levels of complexity and integration; the search for meaning and significance; and development of community--working and…

The developmental change from global toward dimensional classifications, usually observed in vision, was investigated in haptics with stimuli varying according to their size and roughness. Results indicated that, although more overall similarity classifications were observed in children than in adults, this kind of classification was never…

Ursuline College's core curriculum approaches the cognitive and ethical development of women through three anchors: (1) introductory seminar, focused on moving from received to subjective knowing; (2) introduction to culture, moving from subjective to procedural knowing through a wide variety of perspectives; and (3) culminating seminar, focusing…

This statement of the National Institute of Mental Health Editors' Consortium discourages piecemeal publication of small amounts of data from the same study, requires study authors to inform editors about other manuscripts from the same study, and requires authors to submit copies of closely related manuscripts. (JDD)

In Portage County, Ohio, volunteer master gardeners trained in horticulture therapy worked with at-risk youth aged 11 through 14, developing their self-esteem, confidence, enthusiasm, and positive attitudes. Truancy decreased and grades improved, and increased funding was received to establish an additional youth development position. (SK)

Barriers to creating learning organizations include inability to change mental models, learned helplessness, truncated learning, individualism, culture of disrespect and fear, entrenched bureaucracy, part-time/temporary workforce, and diversity issues. Nevertheless, the learning organization is a sustainable vision for human resource development.…

Reviewing is an important component of adventure education that involves reflecting, describing, analyzing, and communicating what has been experienced. Reviewing adds value to the adventure experience for participants and provides information the leader can use to evaluate and revise the program. (KS)

Kmart Employment for Youth Program in St. Louis trained black high school students in employability skills and personal development. Interviews with 30 completers and 49 dropouts found some decrease in adolescent discouragement among participants; females were less discouraged than males. Help with transportation problems and in coping with job…

Outdoor pursuits can facilitate major psychological and philosophical change in participants, and can act as a catalyst for self-actualization. Participants are temporarily relieved from all but the basic needs in life, allowing efforts to be concentrated on intense, meaningful, personal experience. (KS)

Twenty-seven corporate managers completed the Priest Attarian Risk Taking Inventory before and after a day of rappelling. Subjects also completed a business version of the inventory a few weeks before and a few weeks after the experience. Subjects appeared to transfer some of their new risk-taking behaviors to their jobs. (KS)

The factor structure of the Kurtines Autonomy Scale, which focuses on autonomous rule compliance, was investigated with female adolescents (n=294). Factor analytic exploration was conducted by submitting the item correlation matrix to a principal components factor analysis. The results were related to counseling with suggestions for instrument…

The stages of a model for reviewing or "debriefing" an adventure experience are: experience, or relive what happened; express feelings about the experience; examine, or analyze the experience for learning; and explore something brought out in the previous stages. Describes suggested activities for each stage of the sequence. (KS)