Household Labor-saving devices and contraception innovations have given women new freedom to choose to have a career, marriage, children or a combination of these. Counseling personnel must assume a futuristic orientation in their therapeutic strategies, for women will continue to seek fulfillment from an increasing variety of individual…

Teachers are urged to plan for activities that bring a class together in a social environment to develop group unity. The design of a successful activity is presented. (EB)

The article offers a cursory look at how women faculty members in public community colleges perceive their career opportunities, what their advancement possibilities and career aspirations are, and how they see the dual role of managing home and career. (Author/MW)

In this article several functions for the school psychologist were proposed, including assistance in the selection of students for vocational programs designed for the handicapped and disadvantaged, teacher consultation, and consultation in the development of career programs. (Author)

The paper examines the joint interactive process of top-level administrative leadership teams of colleges or universities, with emphasis on the team's collective thinking. It focuses on how individual team members, who report directly to the president, make sense of their own and each other's activities on the team (for example, by constructing…

The development of a reliable and valid instrument to measure levels of school administrator burnout is the objective of this research. The stages involved in the development and assessment of the Administrator Role Perception Inventory (ARPI) were item writing, field testing, participant selection, test administration, and data analysis. The…

While professional women may experience their "dual careers" at home and at work as a source of inner fragmentation, this fragmentation can be a vehicle for developing a greater sense of personhood. Recent data show that women who combine work, marriage, and motherhood are experiencing more general psychological well being than are other women.…

This paper describes how teachers of young children who are also mothers of young children perceived and dealt with problems in their dual role. Three specific questions were addressed: (1) How do teacher/mothers perceive the interaction between the two roles? (2) What positive and negative effects does each of the two roles have on the…

As self-help groups have grown in number, mental health professionals have found themselves increasingly involved in such groups. This study examined how mental health professionals viewed the appropriateness of a variety of roles sometimes assumed by mental health professionals when they work with self-help groups. Social workers, psychologists,…

Case study methodology using structured interviewing and cognitive mapping techniques has been used to reveal the contrasting role perspectives and evaluative judgment criteria of three university student teacher supervisors with different professional backgrounds. This study extends an earlier investigation by comparing these role perspectives…

Women involved in multiple life roles comprise a large segment of society, yet little is known about how stressful and satisfying they find this lifestyle, or about what characteristics are related to feeling stressed or satisfied. The purpose of this study was to examine role and life satisfaction and stress in women involved in multiple life…

The East Texas School Study Council (ETSSC) (a cooperative organization involving 82 member school districts, a regional educational service center, and East Texas State University) sponsored a study on the impact of Texas reform legislation (H.B. 246 and H.B. 72) on the instructional role of the approximately 400 principals in council member…

Through specific practices in methods classes, prospective teachers can be taught the benefits of professional activism. One such strategy is to provide students with complimentary copies of "Language Arts" and ask them to read two or three articles that especially interest them. Another strategy asks students to read, select, and submit one or…

The self-perceptions and attributions for success among 561 college administrators were studied. Questionnaires were completed by presidents (27 percent), deans (27 percent), directors and coordinators (33 percent), and nonadministrative faculty (13 percent). Self-perceptions were measured by adjectives that were subsequently categorized as…

Questionnaires were completed by 96 editorial cartoonists and by 67 of their newspaper editors in a study of the journalistic autonomy and decision making participation of the cartoonist. It was hypothesized that (1) editors and cartoonists would agree on the cartoonist's role, and (2) cartoonists and their editors would differ significantly in…