It is possible to approach, but not to achieve, the goal of perfection. To the three traditional philosophical values of truth, goodness, and beauty it is appropriate to append the important values of wisdom, humanness, and grace. Among the resources available toward the perfection of behavior are ethics, morality, and mores. The first chapter of…

Some guidelines for individualized teaching strategies. (HB)

A look at the overall design of macro evaluation, or the strategies to measure results of individual or singular classroom activities and experiences. (Author/HB)

A discussion of the research findings on the differences between student self-selection of performance standards and externally imposed performance standards. (HB)

A discussion which proposes that ATI may be of interest as a descriptive science, but is unnecessary for adapting instruction to individuals. Suggestions that individuals should adapt instruction to their own needs and that the task of the instructional developer is to make this possible. (Author/HB)

The tension between personal independence and the demands of our social environment is something which all of us experience in varying degree though we react to it in very different ways. Author concerned himself with the nature of that tension and its implication for educational policy. (Author/RK)

Article focused on Creative Helping, designed to facilitate the development of distinctive personality, to reduce anomie and to release creative energy. (Author/RK)

Neither Freud's original theories nor modern revisions of psychoanalytic theory serve women well. Because assumptions about the inherent inferiority of women are embedded at the core of the structure of psychoanalytic theory, the theory cannot be adequately revised for women. A new theory is needed which would serve women's interests better.…

When Piaget ascribed the origin of knowledge to action, he distanced his theory from most other theories of the origins of mind. As a result, Piaget's conception of mental action has been quite controversial. Piaget's recent, functionalist revisions emphasize procedures and their role in the development of structures. In the new view, structures…

J. M. Barrie's popular story of Peter Pan depicts the never-neverland of an endless happy childhood. Analysis of the story and of J. M. Barrie's personal background, however, reveals that the tale is a conflicted solution to and separation from early childhood losses and disappointments. Themes of separation and reunion, redesertion and revenge…

To further comprehend the roles of curriculum, instruction, and objectives -- those conceptualizations of the educational experience -- it is necessary to begin a systematic search of inner, human experience. (JH)

Develops a synthesis of stage thinking in the light of cognitive-developmental theory as it appears in the literature of both psychology and philosophy. (Author)

Investigates the views that loneliness is related to the type of childhood friends and activities one has, and that lonely adults are more hostile in interpersonal situations. Results confirmed the hostility hypothesis and partially confirmed the friendship hypothesis. (Author/PC)

A Bloomington, Indiana, high school football team lost its first game in six years at the end of the 1973 season. A sports writer's study of the effects on some of the principals. (Editors)