The author recounts problems he encountered in industrial vocational training in functional literacy programs. He stresses the acquisition of attitudes, habits, and principles more than specific technical facts or procedures, and recommends the use of visual aids and group discussion, and giving students ability to read and understand charts and…

Discussed are individual report presentations in seminars and programed instruction as two approaches to teaching in colleges. Enthusiasts of these two methods overlook inherent demerits. Influences of a teacher's personality and interest in subject on the students should be carefully considered. (PS)

Describes effort by counselor to make relationship between mothers and children more growth-promoting through shared group experiences in which new approaches to old behaviors were introduced. (CJ)

Describes attempt by South African placement office to bridge gap between business world requirements and student impracticality, through orientation course for seniors planning to enter business after graduation. (CJ)

Article describes a format for helping children think more about human behavior and about themselves in the process, through classroom discussion. (Author/MM)

Describes some of the common elements in activities of non-therapeutic groups (such as Synanon Recovery, etc.) and suggests kinds of persons most likely to be helped by them. (CJ)

An essay on the value of contention, arguing that the object of English classes should not be to classify things and ideas but to advance, possibly through an adversary approach, the differences in opinion, reaction, and value that too often lie buried in literary issues. (Author/JB)

Report focuses on some over-uses of sensitivity training by showing that the technique is differentially effective for separate groups of people. (Author)

Suggests that the syndicated columns published under the by-lines Dear Abby" and Ann Landers" contain useful textual material for intermediate and advanced English-as-a-second-language students. (VM)

The curriculum and teaching methods revisions necessary with the addition of a ninth school year to compulsory full-time schooling required innovation in history instruction. (JB)

Reprinted from English Teaching Forum, v7 n1 p19-21 Jan-Feb 1969. (DS)