Describes a training program designed to train undergraduate paraprofessionals to plan, facilitate, and evaluate developmental workshops for college students. The program incorporated developmental theory and concepts. (JAC)

Describes a support group for participants in the College Scholars Program at the University of Tennessee (N=8). Students reacted with independence and autonomy in structuring the group, and indicated it was effective in stimulating growth and development. (JAC)

Presents a student development theory based on student involvement, which refers to the quantity and quality of the physical and psychological energy students invest in their college experience. Discusses implications for practice and research. (JAC)

Evaluates four leadership development programs for minorities to determine what characteristics are most effective. Reports that programs offering the greatest possibility of bringing members into the mainstream are comprehensive education programs with an apprenticeship component that equips participants with both experience and an academic…

Discusses the importance of art in the schools to students' cognitive and perceptual development. Suggests that art helps children evaluate visual images and provides a means of expression and an expanding awareness of the physical environment. (JAC)

Reviews literature related to practical efforts to cultivate desired moral development reasoning and behavior. Uses Kohlberg's concepts as a reference point to help identify issues, problems, and possibilities, and proposes several practical guidelines for moral development training in the schools. (JAC)

John Hellier, the head of Brislington School at Bristol, describes an adjustment unit for disturbed students and the ingredients necessary to make it a success. (RK)

Article examined some of the problems that teachers of literature face and argued for the classroom utility of Frye's critical theory, one that permits a definition of the subject, the development of central principles and a taxonomy of forms. (Editor/RK)

This article is taken from a pamphlet put out by a group of English teachers at Clissold Park Comprehensive, London, who wanted to raise some controversial questions about reading and language development with other teachers in their school. (Editor)

Young cartographers can chart the world. Mapping skills help children explore our small planet. (Editor)

This book presents a model of curriculum development for gifted students and offers four parallel approaches that focus on ascending intellectual demand as students develop expertise in learning. The parallel curriculum's four approaches include: (1) the core or basic curriculum; (2) the curriculum of connections, which expands on the core…

At California State University, Fresno, all incoming students take a full-semester, three-unit course that includes topics on academic preparation but also focuses on issues and topics commonly associated with experiential and adventure education. These areas include communication, listening, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Recognizing the…

Reflection requires time. In one class, students were asked to engage in a process of written reflection about the writing they had done immediately after they prepared their papers, as they sat in class preparing to hand in those papers. Reflective writing, which Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff call "process writing," appears throughout…

Psychology and computer science were clustered into a course in "Internet Psychology" with the goal of enabling students to use electronic networks responsibly and creatively and to understand the principles of psychology as they operate in the electronic context. Fourteen students from a variety of majors registered for the class.…

This issue brief presents the obstacles that a number of youth face in America due to factors such as, failing schools, dangerous neighborhoods, poverty, disproportionate incarceration, poor health and nutrition, lack of employment opportunity, language difficulty and marginalization of their heritage and culture. The heavily structured school day…