The development of the model program was accomplished by: (1) establishing linkages with other agencies and educational institutions in the community; (2) reviewing the pertinent research literature; (3) carrying out a needs assessment in order to determine the educational needs and interests of elderly residents as well as the problems facing…

This research plan focuses on selected determinants of sexual behavior and contraceptive use for a stratified quota sample of adolescent boys and girls. Attention is concentrated on the socialization processes through which these youth develop attitudes toward heterosexual behavior and the ways in which these attitudes as well as situational…

This paper addresses the need for the modification of educational objectives and instructional methodology with a view toward responding to an uncertain future. Career guidance must find ways to assist individuals in the process of self-development and self-actualization. An effective career guidance program calls upon the school counselor to…

Although the majority of our children acquire functional literacy in all the basic skills; become functional, law-abiding, and constructive adults; and become employable, a large number do not. Children are reared in environments that teach three life views--that the objective of life is to work hard, sacrifice the joys of the moment, and indulge…

Describes the Group Life Seminar Program at Kansas State University. The program is an attempt to humanize education by focusing on each individual's uniqueness, personal growth, skill development and professional growth. It is primarily directed to three student subgroups: freshmen, veterans and transfer students. (Author/HMV)

Outlines the basic elements of an experimental program in educational leadership, the Cary Leadership Fellows Program of the Bank Street College of Education, and gives some of the assessments the Fellows made of their training. (CS)

Six stages of development for black people struggling in the Western world are offered; not as tight psychological stages, but as philosophical points of departure based on the vision of the black artist. The applicability and potential therapeutic value of these stages in group counseling and other educational contexts is discussed. (EH)

A brief career planning experience was examined in relation to the vocational maturity of inmates. (Author)

Research supported by Public Health Service Special Fellowship 15,590.

Chapter 3 in Life Skills in School and Society.

Condensed from "The Teachers College Record, Volume 70 (December 1968), 227-31

Based on a paper read to the 1967 meeting of the American Orthopsychiatry Association.

This booklet contains descriptions of 34 sex equity projects in Oregon. Project descriptions contain such information as a contact person and the project's audience, procedures, outcomes, and funding sources. The projects are organized under three headings--displaced homemaker projects, support services/special needs projects, and women in…