This study examined how women who work in the professions and who have been mothers for 1 to 4 years construct and coordinate their roles as professionals and as mothers, in terms of both the symbolic meanings of these roles and the practical organization of their daily activity related to these roles. Fifteen women participated in extensive…

Reports a study undertaken to analyze the ways in which the primary school experience is portrayed in stories for American children between the ages of three and seven, focusing on the roles of minority group members in the stories. (Author/JM)

A sociological analysis of the concept of "role" is applied to adult students. The disparity between adult students and teachers' subjective expectations of them is examined. A framework for analyzing student role from social, personal, occupational, and institutional perspectives is presented. (Availability: Falmer Press, Falmer House, Barcombe,…

Undergraduate physical education teachers, asked to rate the importance of twelve characteristics for physical education teachers and coaches, felt both jobs called for similar abilities. Gender and past experience were closely related with the job preferences expressed by these students. (Author/PP)

Ideas and experiences to improve the art of influence with state agencies are provided. College presidents and institutional research officers were interviewed. The role of state agencies' future issues that may affect campus and state agency relationships are examined. (MLW)

An historical perspective on the role of the college president is presented, including a review of the literature that reveals familiar themes: presidential autocracy; the president as facilitator, caretaker, or leader; and the president as mediator and crisis manager. Increased responsibility is noted, and selected readings are listed. (MLW)

The Role Delineation Project for Health Education has established minimum competencies for health educators. Responsibilities are in the areas of: (1) communicating health education needs, concerns, and resources; (2) determining, planning, and implementing appropriate foci in health education; (3) evaluating health education; and (4) coordinating…

Recommendations are offered which barallel the three discussion sections of the article: professional practice issues, professional guild issues, and professional survival issues. Although presented in broad terms, these recommendations address either individuals, organizations or the field. (Author/GK)

Explored number of programs initiated to involve older adults in meaningful volunteer tasks, responsibilities, and roles on university campuses. Data demonstrate the feasibility of these programs and positive outcomes include improvement of intergenerational communication, reduction of ageism, provision of services to educational institutions, and…

Describes continuity theory, as emphasizing the interaction between individual characteristics and the social structure. Presents three propositions concerning social role restrictivness and maintenance in older adults. Considers psychological, sociological, physiological, and educational influences on elder's social behavior. (JAC)

Attempts to identify the nature and origin of the new demands made on child guidance services since the late 1960s, looks at the responses of the services to those demands, discusses psychologists' changing perceptions of their roles, and offers some tentative indications of possible future lines of development. (Author/CM)

A life-span human development model of learning in early childhood is presented. Learning is viewed as a human enterprise which spans the entire lifetime and involves interaction among people. The bounds of interaction are derived from philosophy and from the biological and social behavioral sciences. (JN)

Presents a discussion of issues which may be unique in therapy with divorcing clergy, focusing on the overlap between the minister's marital and occupational roles, and the extent to which such overlap influences the divorce and adjustment process. Special concerns of the divorced clergy are described. (Author)

Results of a study on the school psychologists' role indicated that principals endorsed their psychometric function while teachers were unsure of the most desirable functions of school psychologists. Implications of these findings, which support previous research, are discussed briefly. (MH)

Following a preface on the uses of art education history, the author employs historical analysis to identify the current state of art education research as a discipline. Factors working to maintain the schism between art education research and practice are also discussed, particularly stereotyped self-images influencing art educators. (SJL)