It is argued in this paper that the interdisciplinary course provides a setting for viewing the ordered relationships that exist among disciplines. The necessity of this approach is pointed out as it reflects the need for a highly disarticulated curriculum to address and find solutions to the complex problems facing the world community. A…

Fourteen papers from an international workshop on research into personal development relative to educational and vocational choice are presented in this report. Representative titles of the papers are as follow: (1) problems and designs in research on educational and vocational careers; (2) opportunities, pressures and constraints: research into…

Both as a method of measurement and as a theoretical hypothesis, syntactic maturity (SM) has profoundly affected thinking about verbal growth and ways to enhance that growth. On the positive side, SM is easy to use, requiring no elaborate training in grammar or statistics, and it is quantifiable providing an objective numerical index of…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE PALO ALTO GUIDANCE PROGRAM WERE PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM WERE BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT GUIDANCE SHOULD FOSTER INDIVIDUALIZATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL CHILDREN BY PROVIDING CONDITIONS WHICH WOULD ENSURE THIS INDIVIDUALIZATION. THESE TWO THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS, REINFORCEMENT THEORY AND…

This study attempted to discover the characteristics of the developmental process whereby children follow a sequential pattern in their understanding of social relationships. A questionnaire was administered describing several simple dyadic situations in terms of one person helping or hurting another. The respondents were to indicate whether the…

Two hypotheses were examined in this research project: (1) children with high level perceptual skills in the initial assessment will retain their advantage but will grow less in skills than children with low level skills development at the outset; and (2) after a period of skills development, children with high level skills development will show…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the psychosocial factors affecting the educational and occupational development of women undergraduates. Emphasis was placed on discovering manifestations and determinants of the development of autonomy. Divided into 2 parts, the report first surveys 2 decades of research literature concerning the…

The increasing momentum of research on women's roles, education, and career accomplishments and an appreciation of the rapidity of social change suggest the exploration of male attitudes concerning women's roles, life planning approach appropriate for the 1980's, possible life patterns, and counselor training for advising girls and women. Little…

In an attempt to test the extent to which attitude change occurs as a function of social role, data was collected on two occasions occuring five years apart (1969 and 1974). Subjects were 72 persons aged 17-19 years old in their last year at high school. They completed the author's modification to the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale in 1969…

This brief personal planning program takes the form of a self-survey where the student answers questions to which there are no right or wrong answers. The first part is called Where am I Now?; the second is Where do I Want to Be?; the third is How do I Get to Where I Want to Be? The first part requires fairly objective responses, while the other…

The worktext was developed, as part of Project SPAN (Start Planning Ahead Now), for the use of junior high school students. Its purpose is to help them assess their personal attributes and qualities and understand how they relate to future employability and how they can help in the selection of vocational goals. Emphasis is placed on the…

This mini-guide helps students understand moral concepts and values so that they can better evaluate their own behavior. It also helps them to recognize what may happen when they act in a certain way. The guide begins with an exercise in which the student matches words that describe good values and their opposites. The next exercise calls for the…

Children's dependence upon the teacher in all aspects of the writing process in the elementary classroom must be replaced by the development of self-critical tools in the young writer. To help this development, the teacher should look at the nature of the writing process, with its three steps of precomposing, composing, and postcomposing, and then…

After positing the need for the bedrock of schooling (reading, writing, and computing numbers and quantities), the author examines the content and presentation of the rest of the curriculum. Two quiding principles are used in this examination: (1) surprisingly few particular pieces of knowledge and skill must be mastered by everybody in the same…

This issue of Impact presents a potpourri of articles that deal with concerns affecting one's life and how one lives it. The articles have a similar concern and focus--ideas and/or things the reader can do to enhance the quality of life, or changes in personal environments to help make the world a better place. The following articles fill this…