This study sought to determine which components of a previously successful training procedure are necessary in modifying children's impulsivity. Impulsive second and third graders of both sexes (n=48) were subjects. Results indicate self-reinforcement is a necessary aspect of training in the modification of impulsivity. (Author)

Examined the writing forms used as a means of self-expression by 148 high school students. Results indicated the majority of the participants utilized at least one writing mode. Females and those who were juniors in high school reported more frequent use of these than did males and seniors. (Author/BL)

Describes the author's self-fulfilling experiences in a storytelling workshop, and how she strives to give students the same discovery through stories. (HTH)

This article shows how kindergarten children who are required to write stories are better speakers, earlier readers, and more careful communicators. The children write or draw their stories to the best of their ability, and the teacher adds conventional spelling. (DF)

A discussion of what "political" means--performing, acting, and participating in public arenas; a presentation of self; a showing and telling; an ongoing demonstration; and a continuous effort to disprove authority--and of how political activity belongs in a political science classroom. (ND)

This paper considers the origins of kindness in relation to the martial art known as Aikido. It also attempts to discover the underlying constitutional elements of Aikido's pedagogy of self learning, learning about others, and instructional practices that promote interpersonal relatedness. A teacher and four students of the Aikido Dojo were…

The data indicated: (a) clients perceived greater self-exploration than counselors or raters; (b) confrontive counselors perceived greater self-exploration than speculative counselors; and (c) neither raters' nor clients' estimates of self-exploration differed across speculative or confrontive counselors. (Author)

A careful balance between the free expression of ideas and the development of skills needed for clear and effective communication is obviously essential to a complete, well-integrated language arts program. (Author)

A member of the National Theatre of the Deaf urges utilization of creative arts in the education of deaf persons. (GW)

Describes a movement behavior program. Through touching, tumbling, jumping, and other basic movements -- all in interaction with other children and supportive adults -- the participants demonstrated a significant decrease in anxiety and an increased capacity to reveal their feelings during and immediately after the experimental program. (Author/JF)

Clinical and experimental data are cited to show that not expressing anger can also have maladaptive consequences: poisoning" of relationships, psychosomatic disorders, and impairment of cognitive functions. The article by Berkowitz is critically analyzed. (Author/EK)

This study shows a demonstrable relationship between children's personality traits and the characteristics of their creations and use of materials. (NH)

Edited version of a paper presented in the Education and Creativity Symposium at the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (Adelaide, South Australia, August 1969). (Editor/SW)