A former gifted pupil shares ideas based on her own experiences in dealing with motivation, coping with failure, making learning tasks meaningful, providing opportunities for self-expression, fostering expression in the arts, developing social skills, using grouping strategies, and finding a mentor. (CL)

Examined the effects of assertiveness training on the self-expression skills of 65 Korean college students. Results showed the treatment group scored significantly higher on the College Self Expression Scale than placebo or control groups, and males scored significantly higher than females. (JAC)

Argues that in both collective and individualistic societies, the most crucial experience for a writer is discovering what it means to write for oneself. (MM)

This study examines the relationship between self-disclosure and three facets of diminished mental health in a black female college student sample. Anxiety was significantly related to self-disclosure in the direction opposite to that predicted by the theory of self-disclosure. Implications are discussed. (Author)

The use of the "surrogate self" in counseling is a simple Gestalt-like role-playing technique (Perls 1969) that can be especially effective when the client has begun to see the counselor as a trusted, caring, and understanding person. The role-playing is described. (Author/EJT)

Children are inspired to write creatively if they are free to sensorially absorb and naturally react to the world around them. (JH)

Dramatic play provides children an excellent way to express their feelings and perceptions of the world that surrounds them. It is also an alternative way for researchers and teachers to capture, understand, and interpret children's voices because of the difficulties that children have in expressing ideas through oral and written language. While…

Traumatic life events are stressful and when coupled with decreased emotional expression they can have deleterious effects on a person's psychological and physical health. The empirical literature on programmed assignments, specifically Programmed Writing (PW) as a therapeutic intervention, was examined for its potential as a means to facilitate…

Discusses ways of using literature to teach language arts creatively. (MM)

Teachers often become dominated by the demands of subject disciplines and fail to provide opportunities for pupils to learn by talking, reading, writing about experiences they meet, for in this way they will come to terms with subject disciplines. (Author)

The importance of talkativeness or the relative frequency of contributing to task interaction was examined as a factor which determines person perception. Quantity but not quality of task contributions was significantly related to the attribution of creativity and influence over others. (Author/JB)

Discusses aspects of the English teacher's task in helping students deal with the problem of continuity within change" through experiences with literature; a keynote address given at annual conference of National Association for the Teaching of English (7th, University of Exeter, England, April 10-13, 1970). (Author/RD)