A study was made to determine if the laboratory training method can help teachers be more effective small group seminar leaders, and be more effective in their interaction with fellow educators. Two seminar instructors were selected from each of 17 secondary schools for the laboratory training; and a similar control group was selected for no…

Since the central concerns of existentialism are the same as the central concerns of education in a democratic society, namely the fullest and freest development of the individual, existential thought was examined for the help it could give educators in more fully realizing this aim. Specifically, the central existential concept of authenticity…

Assimilation through acculturation is a central aim of education within all societies. If the society is over-assimilated, and if education fails to preserve individual creative powers, it will perish. The school, the institutionalized educational process, is assigned two central tasks: (1) the assimilation by acculturation of the neophytes within…

The study experimentally investigated a self-image development package - Self-Programmed Counseling and Self-Programmed Control (SPC) - that was especially geared to meet the educational and personal needs of the Chicano student. The fall 1973 study used these considerations: (1) how the community college can increase the enrollment of Chicano…

During the 1960's a growing body of experimental evidence suggesting that early malnutrition could affect the development and the functioning of the brain was translated into a concern that nutritional deprivation might be producing permanent mental retardation among "disadvantaged" children. The purpose of this paper is to show, through a review…

Intended for administrative personnel, curriculum specialists, and career education project directors who are considering introduction of career education activities in their school districts, this catalog presents a suggested curriculum design and detailed instructional objectives for career education for Grades K-9. An introductory chapter…

This five-unit junior high school speech communication curriculum guide is designed to provide seventh, eighth and ninth graders with an introductory course in speech-communication. Presupposing that communication or speech is a regularly scheduled subject in the junior high school, the outlined course requires at least one semester of academic…

Divided into four phases, this project in career education includes the following aspects: planning of project policies and activities and securing resource materials; orientation of the school district staff to the project; integration of occupational information, exploration, and career education concepts into the curriculum, identification of…

Part One of these hearings before the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs of the United States Senate includes the testimony of scientists and doctors engaged in research regarding the relationship between maternal, fetal, and infant nutrition and optimum mental and physical development of the child. In testimony it was shown that the…

Freedom in the classroom should concern the schools as much as the development of cognition and skills. Freedom has traditionally been regarded as something that the child already possesses or which will develop by itself. However, freedom is not a naturally developing property of man, but a delicate and fragile quality of mind and behavior which…

The papers presented at the Symposium on Issues in Human Development in Philadelphia, November 1967, are collected in this document. Included are lengthy extracts from the discussion. Participants at the conference were from the biologic and social sciences. The goal of the conference was not so much to reveal answers to problems as to make sure…

Data are presented which show: (1) that differences between adult and child psyches have important implications for age-stratified interaction process; and (2) that adult-child interactional differences cannot be solely attributable to genetic or psychological differences but that they are in part due to social factors. The data are based on…

Several articles are concerned entirely with explicating some of the core Adlerian principles which center, ultimately, on the purposiveness of all human behavior. Among the theoretical topics included are: (1) a conflict solving strategy; (2) the characteristics of the family constellation; and (3) the implications of misbehavior viewed as having…

What is the status of our present knowledge concerning the influence of malnutrition on intellectual development, learning, and behavior in children? This paper focuses primarily on an identification of some of the major issues and questions which are of concern to investigators in the field. The major concern of this review is with…

This developmental course in career planning is conceived as a voluntary class open to secondary school students who feel that they are ready to benefit from it. Its function, rather than serving the manpower needs of business and industry, is to assist students to become more aware of themselves as contributing individuals and of the many ways in…