The seven papers in this book were prepared as the bases of discussions at a BEPD-sponsored conference which dealt with the ways in which teachers can make a difference in education. The conference was a followup to one held a year earlier on the topic, "Do Teachers Make a Difference." The implications which can be drawn suggest the need to make…

The unified model for a teacher education program was developed from five preliminary models prepared by a group of teacher educators in West Virginia and reflects current knowledge and research related to the development of undergraduate programs. The program contains four major areas of learning experiences: 1) social foundations of contemporary…

To prevent the move to make schools more humane from developing into another educational fad, the author proposes an approach to curriculum design and evaluation that explicity relates the human condition to the necessary goals of teaching. To do this, he has prepared a grid in which the six elements of the human condition from developmental…

This report reviews relevant educational literature and current practices to discover the relationship between personal change and self confrontation. Five areas of study include a) outcomes, b) help for whom, c) the helpful situation, d) the helpful treatment, and e) the helpful helper. The first section briefly describes the outcomes of self…

An author reflects on memory, language, the real, children's literature, myths, icons, and the interplay between structure and freedom. (IRT)

Recent literature presents parenthood as a crisis and/or growth experience. This paper refocuses this issue from an orientation toward outcome to one on process. It examines transitions into fatherhood in terms of six tasks which must be completed or mastered if this process is to be gratifying and rewarding. (Author)

Examines the concept of maturity and then three aspects of the individual personality especially applicable to those who are religiously mature. (RK)

This essay outlines some distinctive features of a perspective on the family which represents its course of development in historical context--a perspective which is focused on the process of status change, and thus on the task of explicating such change. (Author)

A curriculum is a perspective: it gives view to human knowledge, values, and skills. It imposes discipline because it presumes to create a plan or a structure for seeking and recognizing and valuing experience. (Author/IRT)

There are three explicit psychotherapeutic propositions of reality therapy that, when combined, create a positive growth-and-development orientation to human behavior: (1) individuals are capable of constructive and creative change; (2) people can become more responsible, creative, and productive; and (3) people are capable of helping each other…

This article presents a bibliography on education for older adults. (JEL)

A conceptual framework is presented which allows a group to define some common objective in a simulation/puzzle gaming context. (DAG)

A principal who took time out to teach one class found the insights he gained to be immeasurable. (IRT)

Studies investigated the development of children's ability to differentiate what they see from what they know in the context of conceptual perspective taking. Two developmental levels accounted for children's performance when they were asked about a naive observer's knowledge of the identity of objects. Perspective awareness training improved…

Compared maturation rate and endocrine functioning according to career typicalness in 28 employed women. Results provided only limited evidence that women in nontraditional careers matured later than women in traditional careers. Found subjects in traditional categories married and had children at earlier age than did subjects in nontraditional…