Where is an appropriate point of departure for instructional planning in the social studies? I advocate an approach based on the transaction between a student and his significant world. The Transactional Unit is that segment of the interactive phase of teaching which focusses on the transaction between the student and the display. In this context,…

This annotated bibliography is about studies of educational environment. Environment is defined as being those social, intellectual, and physical conditions and happenings that effect the growth and development of humans. The educational environment is a powerful determinent of human behavior, and the intention here is to report research studies…

Recent theoretical developments have suggested that understanding the thoughts contained in prose material and storing the information contained in prose material are the same thing. A test which was purported to measure the information stored during the reading of prose passages was found to correlate .98 with subjective estimates of the percent…

Compiled in this creative newsletter, among other items, are philosophies, viewpoints, activities, teaching approaches, and resources on humanistic psychology, a philosophy which emphasizes the individual's uniqueness. The lead article briefly defines and provides a rationale for humanistic psychology. Announced in the second article is an…

A study was made of the use of audio-video taping technique with elementary school students in a counseling-type situation to facilitate the children's growth in the following areas: self-reliance, sense of personal worth, sense of personal freedom, feeling of belonging, social skills, and school relations. Subjects were divided into an…

A newly appointed woman dean discusses the value of a management development program involving a process of self-analysis and self-determination of leadership style and effectiveness (the University of Illinois "Executive Leadership Seminar"). (JT)

The author describes a reading program based on James Dinnan's theory of how people learn. This unique program teaches both highly inefficient readers and those with milder developmental needs to deal effectively with practical and literary prose and with poetry. (Author)

An organizational development experiment that included every level of a 600-person accounting firm heightened human interrelationships and personal growth. (For availability see EA 507 168) (Author/MLF)

This study examines object construction and the ages at which children developing under various environmental conditions achieve five of the landmarks in the Uzgiris-Hunt (1974) scale of object permanence. (Author)

The nature of personal rights and how such rights apply to an individual's right to learn are analyzed in the light of the obligations of the education system to that individual. (JD)

Despite the fact that fewer students today are earning liberal arts degrees, Clairbourne E. Griffin of the University of Akron sees a bright future for the liberal arts, because of the value to the individual of a liberal education. (Author/SJL)

The merit of minimum competency testing in a competency-based physical education course is examined by a physical education consultant. (JD)

A comparison of process-oriented and task-oriented groups is presented. Areas considered include achievement, extent of emphasis on content, and perception of the effectiveness of workshop experiences by persons involved in these two approaches. (JMF)

An existential approach to teaching looks for meaning in the social and individual realities of being human. Personal reality involves the possibility of self-consciousness, of choosing, and of unpredictability integrated with the individual's motivation to produce a successful approach to action. (JMF)

A research questionnaire was distributed to assess how extensively aging is taught within the schools. It was more common in secondary schools. Respondents felt that it was a nontraditional topic, and that previous attempts to teach it were unsuccessful. The same percentage of respondents felt that the interest existed as did not. (LPG)