Presents a short-term, classroom-based intervention emphasizing both the interactional and value-based nature of life-role planning. Offers school counselors a direction for helping teenagers with career choices and major life roles. (Author/ABB)

A study randomly assigning college freshmen to three roommate combinations (two high-maturity, one high- and one low-maturity, and two low-maturity students) showed that the maturity of one's roommate increased that student's awareness and insight of his/her values and experiences and ability to express them symbolically. (MSE)

Technological modifications to people's set of values in terms of work, education and family are reexamined and redefined in this paper. The paper recommends that the technological impact on families needs to be studied in a context of cultural change. It examines technology's impact on Taiwan Chinese families in the contexts of cultural…

Analogies help students to unlock long-term memory and to project the implications of courses of action. Gives examples of how analogies can be brought into the social studies curriculum in areas like value claims and decision making. (CS)

A family life education program for adolescents in Oaxaca, Mexico is described. Effects of the program, which used a values clarification approach, are discussed. (CJ)

Sexuality education presents biological facts in broad human terms, with emphasis on helping students to learn how, not what, to think about situations and issues involving sexual values and behavior standards. (Author/MLF)

The author suggests that the common core of career education and consumer education is the emphasis on practical, real-life skills, with a focus on self-understanding and self-oriented decision making. Presented are activities and projects which enhance awareness of the importance of these skills. (KC)

Values clarification is widely used in drug education programs. Criticisms are offered on the role of content in valuing, the position of ethical relativism, the danger of indoctrination, and the social pressure to conform. (Author)

Presents a three-day unit designed to help adolescents identify their life-time goals, analyze how people show commitment to goals, and determine their personal commitment to their own long-term goals. (LRA)

Introduces "Facing History," a recent innovative use of an historical event, the Holocaust, as a means of educating students and teachers to the meaning of such things as human dignity, morality, conflict, decision making, survival, and individual responsibility. (JD)

This ten classroom-hour instructional model for alcohol education focuses on cognitive information, affective instruction, and selected field activities to assist students in establishing physiological and psychological relationships in alcohol areas. This integration is organized to clarify values and instill responsible alcohol-related behaviors…

Reviews various meanings of values and the authors' preferred distinction between terminal and instrumental values. A case illustration describes the usefulness of the Rokeach Value Survey. Research on the value survey is reviewed. C. Gilbert Wrenn gives his personal reactions. (Author)

An analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of these instruments indicates that their judicious use can help toward the upgrading of counseling effectiveness. In an addendum, the values needs of counselors and current research are discussed. (Author/BEF)

A central problem area in bicultural education lies in the determination of the methods and techniques that will prove most effective in enabling the Spanish-speaking child to make optimum use of educational opportunities. (MM)

Suggests that outdoor pursuits and adventure activities promote Maslow's goal of self-actualization. Identifies the middle-order needs (belonging and self-esteem) trap as an inhibitive barrier to growth and maturation of the personality. Proposes six mechanisms to transcend the trap in the outdoor experience. (KS)