Describes how the discipline and sacrifice involved in playing competitive basketball can promote a continuing, self-rewarding challenge and test for the players and others involved. (JD)

Describes Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Knut Hamsun as self-educated men who never ceased to warn of the evils of formal education. Quoting from their works, considers their feelings toward education as revealed in Rousseau's "Emile," with its description of ideal education, and in the ill effects of education on Hamsun's characters. (AYC)

Suggestions are given for developing an effective creative dance program in an elementary class. (JD)

One man recounts what he learned from returning to the elementary classroom after an absence of 24 years, during which he was an elementary principal, a director of elementary curriculum, a consultant, and a doctoral student. (IRT)

A review of the literature on feedback delivered in small groups reveals there are many gaps in knowledge of the most effective ways for individuals to give and receive information about themselves and each other. The present study was designed to examine further this phenomenon. (Author)

Author argues that students should attend the best college they can get into, looking for one with a history of moral as well as intellectual contributions and the resources to help students discover their own identities. (BP)

All fields of health, physical education, and recreation contribute to well being of people, and all these fields should be incorporated into a goal of educating people to be totally healthy. (JMF)

Problems faced by counselor education programs is that of reconciling the split between the traditional academic emphasis on teaching and research and practical experience and personal growth. Contends counselors' failure to recognize the value of theories in counseling may pose some problems for our profession as a whole. (Author)

The importance of the arts as a means for the subject to directly experience acquired knowledge and to express emotions in tangible form is discussed. (RW)

The adaptation of training programs to employees with different value systems can produce better results--and clarify why program evaluations often vary widely. (For availability, see EA 507 433.) (Author)

Contending that one cannot enjoy continued growth as a professional unless one is at the same time enjoying personal growth, the author discusses the following positive adjustments that he believes could make a person more comfortable personally and professionally: Adjustments to our perception, adjustments to our self-concept, and adjustments to…

Findings of this study indicate that the regular practice of Transcendental Meditation is effective in developing positive personality characteristics and in reducing negative characteristics. (RW)

A management consultant shares his observations and those of behavioral scientists in this discussion of the qualities of effective leadership in organizations. Points out that leadership requires use of intellectual power, creativity, diligence, and human understanding. (TA)

The publications of Bonaro Overstreet and Harry Overstreet stressed the need for continuous lifespan learning and portrayed adult education as a mutual interrelationship between learner and educator. The Overstreets served as intermediaries between scholars and the public. (SK)

Describes psychological approaches to study of cognition and emotion, identifies issues that may provide direction to understanding the organization and integration of cognition and emotion in development. Maintains that an integrative model for the study of "cogmotion" is needed, suggesting that cogmotion research will contribute to the exchange…