Both artist and teacher share many common qualities, and also differ in many ways. The important thing is not so much that art educators declare professional identity with either profession, but that we realize and strive for excellence in all areas of art education. (Author)

Focuses on the indicators of effectiveness in a case study of an alternative school. The clarification of staff roles in conjunction with the development of innovative roles is stressed as an important success factor. Includes a discussion of role theory. (APM)

The author defines and describes tactile defensiveness, provides information to assist the special educator in recognizing and coping with the syndrome, and addresses the unique behavioral problems and academic performances characteristic of learning disabled students. (SB)

The paper reviews contributions of J. Piaget and others to the understanding of perception's importance in the cognitive development of mentally retarded children. The effects of poor discrimination learning on IQ scores are noted. (CL)

Thirty-four boys and girls between the ages of four and nine were interviewed on their conceptions of positive justice and parental authority and were then reinterviewed one and two years later. Results suggested that stagelike development in children's social reasoning proceeds gradually, with important continuities in children's social cognition…

Draws from perceptual and cognitive psychology to present a theoretical basis for the principles of interpretation developed by Freeman Tilden. Emphasized is cognitive map theory which holds that information units people receive, code and store are structured into cognitive models intended to represent the environment. (Author/WB)

Explores how principals use some of the discretionary resources at their command to come to an accommodation with problems of resource inadequacy, challenges to authority, and conflicting role expectations. Uses the framework provided by the theory of street-level bureaucracy. (Author/IRT)

Adults' conceptions of children's abilities were examined as a function of three factors: the nature of the subject group, the particular ability in question, and the particular questions asked about the ability. Subjects were 60 adults equally divided among four groups: female parents, female nonparents, male parents, and male nonparents. (MP)

Presented are the results of three different studies with introductory psychology classes investigating the relationship between the subjects' perception of transversed distance and the angularity of the route traveled. (BT)

Discusses research on preschool children's perceptions of adult disciplinary methods and on possible discontinuities between the methods of parents and child caregivers. (Author/SS)

The role expectation, role performance, and leader behavior of principals in 31 Birmingham, Alabama, elementary schools were studied. Comparisons were made between teachers' and principals' perceptions and between perceptions of teachers in self-contained, team teaching, and departmentalized schools. (Author/SJL)

The author proposes that the entire history of Western, serious, classical music can be seen as a coherent, single development with a single evolving characteristic--that of aurally perceptible clarity and order. (Author/SJL)

Reports on a study examining the relationship between specific types of downward communication and job performance within an organization. Supports the theory that factors within the job, the organization, and the employee should all be influencing agents in determining managerial style. (JMF)

The article reviews the empirical evidence implicating conductive hearing impairments as causal agents in learning disability, language dysfunction, and central auditory problems. It is concluded that there are few, if any, valid data linking conductive hearing impairment to any of these problems. (Author/DLS)