This document is the Process Education for Teachers Package, which was designed to give teachers an understanding of the learning process. The package contains an introductory booklet, a research paper, and 13 modules. The introductory booklet presents a history of the formation of the materials and the rationale for the emphasis on the "process…

Educational goals and objectives for the public education system of Alaska are presented in this Title III (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) report. The goals are (1) to provide an environment wherein each person, regardless of any conditions affecting him, is afforded the opportunity to reach his maximum potential as an individual and as a…

This bibliography provides a comprehensive listing of the reference literature in early childhood (ages 2-9) psychology and education dealing with the affective domain. Categories such as achievement motivation; aggression; anger and frustration; character and moral development; creativity; games; and social behavior are included. One of the 27…

Ways of helping coaches to counsel unemployed adults in the solving of their personal problems are explored in this manual. Originally printed as two separate volumes, this reprinting of the study has bound the two together. Volume I involves a general discussion of life's problems and of the need to solve them. This volume contains four parts.…

This paper discusses the effects on college students of a weekly personal growth group and a marathon growth group, both of which are forms of experiential learning focusing on expanded awareness of self and environment, authenticity, and more effective interpersonal communication. The experiential-Gestalt growth group is a relatively unstructured…

Described is an empirical and rational inquiry into the formation of a small set of special or geometrical concepts of young children. The approach taken by the author is to attempt to specify intellectual growth in one particular area, a child's acquisition of diagonality, in such a way as to be representative. That is, to give a clean portrayal…

Proceding from the hypothesis of J. E. Kysar to the effect that college commuter students have poorer "mental health" than their age-mates residing in colleges geographically removed from their homes, the Bown Self-Report Inventory (SRI) scores of 1265 males and 899 females attending the University of Texas at Austin were compared. In…

The following resource guide is one in a series which presents extensive bibliographic material oriented around a specific concept, in this guide, the predictability and uniqueness of growing and developing. A section is devoted to selected materials related to the concept; grade levels for which each resource might be useful are indicated beside…

Where is an appropriate point of departure for instructional planning in the social studies? I advocate an approach based on the transaction between a student and his significant world. The Transactional Unit is that segment of the interactive phase of teaching which focusses on the transaction between the student and the display. In this context,…

This annotated bibliography is about studies of educational environment. Environment is defined as being those social, intellectual, and physical conditions and happenings that effect the growth and development of humans. The educational environment is a powerful determinent of human behavior, and the intention here is to report research studies…

Recent theoretical developments have suggested that understanding the thoughts contained in prose material and storing the information contained in prose material are the same thing. A test which was purported to measure the information stored during the reading of prose passages was found to correlate .98 with subjective estimates of the percent…

Compiled in this creative newsletter, among other items, are philosophies, viewpoints, activities, teaching approaches, and resources on humanistic psychology, a philosophy which emphasizes the individual's uniqueness. The lead article briefly defines and provides a rationale for humanistic psychology. Announced in the second article is an…

A study was made of the use of audio-video taping technique with elementary school students in a counseling-type situation to facilitate the children's growth in the following areas: self-reliance, sense of personal worth, sense of personal freedom, feeling of belonging, social skills, and school relations. Subjects were divided into an…

A newly appointed woman dean discusses the value of a management development program involving a process of self-analysis and self-determination of leadership style and effectiveness (the University of Illinois "Executive Leadership Seminar"). (JT)

The author describes a reading program based on James Dinnan's theory of how people learn. This unique program teaches both highly inefficient readers and those with milder developmental needs to deal effectively with practical and literary prose and with poetry. (Author)