Bibliographically speaking, material on the subject of counselor roles is not difficult to find. However, any close examination of the mass of documents and articles involved quickly reveals that most of these are either purely descriptive studies or critical essays. Document after document points out that counselors are not being adequately…

Designed as a group project for boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 17, the informal discussion unit on clothing deals with total appearance (Accessories, hair, make-up, grooming, posture, mannerisms, facial expression, and clothes) and its relationship to self-understanding and one's role in society. The unit is organized into four parts:…

The authors examine the historical context and current implications of four questions: (1) What is the relationship of land grant universities to agrarian discontent? (2) What was the Wisconsin Idea? (3) What is "public service"? and (4) What views of knowledge predominated in the early days? The land grant university was central as a cause/effect…

This research examines adolescents' perceptions of marriage and marital roles, as measured by a variation of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test. Differences in the meanings given by dating and engaged students suggest that courtship may serve as a process of socialization to married roles. Results also reveal that the perceptions of…

This study gathered information from reading specialists about the nature of their role. From more than 500 questionnaires sent to specialists in 59 school systems in New England, 441 usable questionnaires were returned. The questionnaire was divided into six groups of items: background and general information, responsibilities, communication with…

Forty-three female college students responded to a l5-statement questionnaire dealing with five areas of role conflict: (1) time management; (2) relations with spouse or boyfriend; (3) expectations for self; (4) expectations of others; and (5) guilt. The problem statements used in the questionnaire were derived from previous research that found…

The Counseling Appropriateness Check List (CACL) was administered to 314 Ss under two instruction sets in order to measure perceptions of the role of the counselor, as well as counselor's perceived role. The results suggest that discrepancies exist between the perception of counselor's role and views of the counselor's perceived role, and that…

Education, like other institutions of our society, is susceptible to "future shock", the inadequate preparation for a radically different future. Our nation is on the threshold of an age of scarcity, and the impact on education will be the accelerated demands for educators to justify their use of resources based on impersonal objective criteria.…

The hypothesis that individual differences in psychological differentiation are related to the perceptions of the independence of leadership behaviors was tested. After viewing a supervisor-subordinate interaction sequence on closed circuit television tape, subjects responded to questionnaires measuring their perception/judgments of the…

Though Freud often is portrayed by advocates of women's liberation as the villain in the 'biology is destiny' controversy, Freud was very much a person of his own times. Rather than inventing the 'biology is destiny' theme, he was perpetuating a tradition that dates from at least the time of the Greeks, and which was deeply engrained in 19th…

The purpose of this paper was to show how women medical students are socialized into their student role. The sample group was made up of 24 groups of six medical students, up to half of whom were women. The data were collected from responses to a questionnaire administered to the members of each group at the beginning of the semester and again at…

Prospective theater teachers not only can be trained to develop self-actualization in high school students, but they must develop self-actualization in themselves. Self-actualization, as the cornerstone of humanism, emphasizes the achievable goal of being (rather than becoming) creative, spontaneous, curious, concerned about others,…

In this document, the author: (1) describes a two-year study of cross-age teaching; (2) identifies six stages that children go through in learning to teach; (3) applies those stages to case studies of two tutors--one failure and one success; and (4) discusses the implications of the stages for the role of the supervisor in helping children to…

An exploratory sociological analysis was made of the role adaptations of public junior college teachers. Teachers from two Missouri unified public school system junior colleges were interviewed personally and by mail; information was also gathered from observation, informants, and relevant documents. Both colleges recruited their faculty largely…

Based on Kelly's theory of Personal Constructs, it was hypothesized that there is a positive relationship between the degree of congruence of spouses Personal Constructs (PCs) and their reported marital success. Twenty-four couples, married from six months to 31 years, volunteered as Ss. To assess PCs, each S was administered a 40-dimension scale…