John Martin Rich argued (Journal of Moral Education; v9 n2 p81-87) that emotions should have a more central place in moral education than is normally given to them. It is contended here that the particular arguments employed by Rich cannot be sustained. (Author/RM)

The article reviews characteristics of early, middle, and late adolescence in terms of self-concept, peer relations, and emotional development and notes special problems (such as defense mechanisms, depression, and drug abuse) that professionals face in working with adolescents. (CL)

A teacher of children with multiple disabilities reviews an adaptation of the "Conflict Cycle" designed to help children understand their conflicts through concrete manipulation of cards involving visual, auditory, and tactile modalities. (CL)

The ENCOUNTER program features a nine-week guidance program to help gifted adolescents through group guidance activities and special affective domain units incorporated into the curriculum. A sample weekly plan on self exploration and identity is outlined. (CL)

The paper reviews recent history of study of human emotions in psychology and traces factors that have been responsible for a remarkable increase of interest in emotions, especially as regulators of human behaviors. Research on social referencing is reviewed, showing importance of social referencing with infants as young as 8.5 months. Clinical…

The author predicts that the affective movement in education will subside because the proponents of the movement have failed to develop curricula and other materials for potential practitioners outside the movement. (HD)

Phenomenological analysis is restricted to particular problems and directed toward obtaining spontaneous descriptions of subjective experience. (Author)

A review of Cognition and Affect (Little, Brown, 1970) John S. Antrobus, Editor. (CK)

Teachers who attempt to make their courses meaningful to their students will communicate better with them. (CK)

Ways in which video has been incorporated into a classroom for autistic high schoolers at the Center for Adaptive Programming are described. The design of a lesson on feelings is presented to illustrate the use of video. (CL)

A discussion of creativity focuses on its relationship with other processes within the individual. The social or personal nature of creativity is noted, as are its adaptive, elaborative, or developmental facets. Implications for teaching include the need for understanding the importance or reconciling the emotional forces of creativity with…

Affect Abilities Training (AAT) illustrates the kinds of concrete methods which can be used to further the affective development of persons with mental retardation. The objective of AAT is to develop those emotional behaviors upon which the individual (and society) place value while decreasing those responses which are counterproductive to…

The study related the role of the maternal figure to the affective behavior of the Mexican. Two hundred adolescents judged the concept of "Insult to the Mother" in relation to other similarly charged affective concepts, e.g., "death", "suicide", "drunkenness", etc. Results showed that "Insult to the…