Presents an Emotionality-Rationality-Activity model that integrates recent classifications of counseling and psychotherapy. The model also serves as a theoretical basis from which methods, goals, and processes during counseling, psychotherapy, and training can be derived and integrated. (Author)

Reviews the requirements of Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs) for handicapped students. Proposes an ideal counselor role that includes developing, implementing, and evaluating IEPs in the affective domain. Counselors receive suggestions for their involvement in defining annual goals, objectives, devising appropriate educational…

Moral education takes thorough preparation. Prepackaged programs are no substitute for well-qualified teachers. (Author)

Describes a simulation card game involved with the dumping of hazardous wastes that was designed to explore the trade-off between industrial competition and social concern. Steps of play are described for the game, which is called GARBAGE, and debriefing techniques are suggested, including an affective phase and a cognitive phase. (LRW)

A curriculum for teaching Ultimate, a cardiovascular frisbee disc sport alternative to traditional ball sports, is presented, covering cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills at three different levels. (CB)

Addresses how values have been treated in American schools, arguing that educators' reluctance to treat values directly (as "object matter") arises from Enlightenment notions of perfectability. Distinguishes among definitions of "value,""aversion," and "attitude." Instead of actively working to build conscience, schools concentrate on teaching…

Proposes a cognitive-based model for instructional design that addresses the acquisition and employment of knowledge, the interaction of content knowledge and cognitive strategies for higher order thinking skills, and the affective domain. Educational learning theory is discussed, including working memory, long-term memory, and cognitive skills.…

Discusses the use of fairy tales in a prison adult basic education writing workshop based on work of Campbell and others. Examines use of mythology with beginning writers to enhance writing skills and provide a forum for the exploration of personal lives and values. (SK)

This article proposes a model that continuously calibrates happiness and considers its application with people who have mental retardation. The model suggests that the affective system is continuously recalibrated as a result of either positive or negative affect in a particular domain. Thus, as objective circumstances vary, the person still…

Teacher preparation programs, in part due to national accreditation mandates, are beginning to examine assessment and instruction of teacher trainees' professional behavior and dispositions more carefully than in the past. The faculty at University of South Florida St. Petersburg developed the Professional Behavior Assessment tool (PBA) for rating…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between organisational support for career development (OSCD) and employees' career satisfaction. Based on an extended model of social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and an integrative model of proactive behaviours, the study proposed that career management behaviours would mediate…

The NCATE Standards define dispositions (affect) as follows: "The values, commitments, and professional ethics that influence behaviors toward students, families, colleagues, and communities and affect student learning, motivation, and development as well as the educator's own professional growth." (p. 53, emphasis added), and even the…

Author found it imperative to examine cognitive objectives in order to determine which may be relevant to fostering a deeper and more lasting enjoyment of the music in a listening lesson. Suggestions for a productive listening program were offered. (Author/RK)

Suggests that the oral language program can be specifically designed to create an affective focus and provides several strategies for effecting such a goal. (TO)

The general procedures used to develop educational objectives for the National Assessment of Educational Progress are outlined, as are the procedures used to develop writing objectives. Four objectives related to writing skills are stated: "write to communicate adequately in a social situation"; "write to communicate adequately in a…