Schools are changing: more and more are supporting growth that develops in students responsibility and control over their own lives. (HMD)

In order to study the broadening of the field of possibilities for individuals or for society as a whole, a phenomenological study needs to be made of the individual's psychology in his relations with his products or with those of the social system. (Author)

This paper reports two studies designed to examine the hypothesis that political participation reaches optimum levels among those groups where political trust is low and political efficacy is high. (Author/KM)

Article describes three interrelated factors that appear to be imperative if a match is to exist between curriculum design and research methodology. (Author/RK)

The effects of attention to symbolic presentation of contingent rewards, in the form of slide-presented images, on children's ability to wait for the delayed reward were investigated. Attention to the symbolic contingent rewards greatly increased the duration of the children's delay of gratification. (Author/KM)

The objectives of Chicano Studies as a philosophy of education, as a system of institutional units, and as a method of relating to the individual Chicano, to the Chicano community, and to the society are discussed. (NQ)

This paper presents the humanistic psychology of the pioneer American psychologist Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924), examining Hall's effort to develop a system of psychology that is at once rigorously scientific and, simultaneously, capable of verifying essential human values. (Author)

Excerpts from a statement before the American Board of Professional Psychologists, September 3, 1971.

Aspects which comprise an evolving feminist pedagogy are illustrated through statements made about feminist and curriculum theories. The feminist pedagogy will emerge as females break through boundaries of silence and conceptions of themselves as powerless within the classroom. (CJ)

Meta-analyses indicated that cooperation is more effective than interpersonal and individual efforts in promoting achievement and productivity, that cooperation in intergroup competition is superior to interpersonal and individual efforts in promoting achievement and productivity, and that interpersonal competition and individual efforts do not…

Two contrasting concepts of how humans can best manage affairs and express leadership are explored. Both concepts concur in the conviction that bureaucratic/hierarchical management forms are due to be replaced by a better form. The concepts differ in underlying assumptions about the nature of the human mind and of leadership. (CJ)

Findings indicate that the traditional variables from the literature of political recruitment tend to be more supportive of men rather than women and that the ecological setting is important in determining the recruitment pattern of men and women politicians. (Author)