Graduate nurse educators could profit by adopting the teaching perspective of athletic coaches, which would result in focusing on students' learning histories to identify both strengths and weaknesses. The author compares aspects of coaching athletes with teaching nurses, recommending the coaches' methods of individual evaluation and feedback. (MF)

Clients (N=103) completed the Human Service Scale and were evaluated by counselors by using the Client Outcome Measure. Analyses led to the conclusion that client and counselor perspectives tend to converge at the theoretical level. A critique of this article is presented by English. (Author)

Training in perspective-taking skills (the ability to imagine how objects look relative to one another from another person's point of view) resulted in considerable transfer of learning to other tasks and continued subject superiority over controls seven months later, indicating an inter-stage change in cognition. (MJB)

Recommends that teachers be more empathetic with their students, treating them as they would wish to be treated themselves. Compares classroom teaching with teacher education classes. (NKA)

Explores longstanding inconsistencies in Piaget's account of development of spatial representation and perspective-taking. Examines Piaget's early writings and the findings of the original "three mountains" experiment. Concludes that Piaget's alternative theory is compatible with contemporary thinking and is important as a contributory…

Partially replicates Elkind and Bowen's (1979) investigation of adolescent egocentrism. Studies the relations between imaginary audience and operational thought by testing children and adolescents on a Piagetian-based written test of operational thought and the Imaginary Audience Scale. (Author/AS)

Ways in which teachers can help children in kindergarten and the primary grades develop some of the cognitive and affective capabilities necessary for a global perspective are discussed. Specifically examined are course content which fosters global knowledge and which shows how children can be taught to assume the perspective of others. (RM)

Reports that beliefs about truth and anxiety over the Cold War period shaped the art of political cartoonists of the 1950s. (FL)

This study directly compared the effects of a picture selection response with a rotational one. Eighty preschool children were compared on the response modes. Half the children indicated perspective inferences by selecting from a set of photographs while the others rotated a replica. Children were tested on three nonegocentric perspectives.…

This study examined the role that perspective taking played in preservice teachers' perceptions and analysis of a video teaching case. Participants were 84 preservice teachers from various course levels (introductory courses, methods courses, and student teaching courses). The preservice teachers were asked to take the perspective of either the…

Challenging the assumption that the study of race focuses only on "people of color," many scholars are investigating the historical and social construction of "Whiteness." This book critically interrogates whiteness across contexts; contends that "marking" Whiteness--illuminating veiled cultural assumptions of…

This paper discusses issues of feminist implementation in teaching college composition, focusing on the difference between creating an equitable classroom environment versus imposing a specific point of view. It begins by discussing the difference between feminist pedagogy and feminist activism. The paper then suggests that a successful feminist…

Understanding and addressing the social structures that give rise to student violence require educators, parents, and society at large to adopt a critical, feminist perspective focusing on injustice and incorporating perspectives of marginalized students. Because practices of social groups play a critical role in self-identity, the violent actions…