The process presented interrelates a positive, systematic plan for evaluation of nursing faculty with an individualized program of personal and professional development. This process makes use of self-, peer, student, and administrative input. (Editor/CT)

The author presents a critique of twentieth-century behaviorism and humanism as educational theories. He argues that the techniques of both lead to unwarranted intervention in individual lives and ceaseless human engineering. (SK)

Testimony shows that in schools divided into equal teams under programs properly administered the pupil promptly finds something outside himself to be loyal to and to work for--all prizes and trophies go to the House. Older members coach younger so younger look to older for leadership--a neglected mechanism for perpetuating civilization.…

Adult education, and in particular the study of English, can have a therapeutic effect on prisoners, both by broadening narrowed horizons and by providing a context in which students can recognize and discuss their own problems. (Author/SK)

A model for group training of foster parents focuses on self-directed learning and mutual support to overcome feelings of powerlessness and isolation. (Author/RH)

In motor skill performance and retention, the complexity of knowledge of results should interact appropriately with the child's processing rate, since children process information in short-term memory more slowly than adults, and their control processes (rehearsal, naming, grouping, and recording) become more efficient only with increased age. (JD)

A checklist is presented for evaluating talent, giftedness, and creativity growth in students of all ages. Primarily intended as an aid to the individual, the checklist covers such areas as characteristics, achievement and intelligence test scores, grades, personal history, and experiential activities. (CL)

Discusses the impossibility of organizational change and how that impacts the role of human performance technology. Five components of technology are described, including systems thinking; personal learning and mastery; mental models; building shared vision; and team learning. (LRW)

Reviews theoretical and empirical developments in Erik Erikson's construct of generativity-stagnation. Presents a five-category model describing styles of resolving the issue using combinations of level of involvement or active concern for the growth of self and others; and level of inclusivity or scope of caregiving concern. Discusses model in…

A career counselor elaborates Maslow's eight ways of self-actualization using examples of client cases. She describes the career counselor's role as facilitator of self-actualization. (SK)

Describes a project in Missoula, Montana, where participants create shows based on personal experiences and issues for educational purposes. Notes that although the project has an educational specialist and drama coordinator, the project belongs to the adolescents, who create policy. States that drama sessions include improvisation, role playing,…

Recounts the process by which a college teacher became a teacher, specifically a teacher of writing. The experience of being taught by exceptional teachers created the desire to be such a teacher himself. (SLD)

Focuses on exploring and understanding the epistemological significance of eros and the place of the erotic in contemporary religious education. Shows, through concrete examples, how a fully human epistemology makes possible an authentic religious education that promotes both personal and communal transformation. (CAJ)

Describes the learning curve experienced by a new campus programming advisor from her perspective and from those of a colleague and supervisor. (EV)

Brings together 25 years of experience of keeping journals, thinking about landscape, and attending Quaker meetings. Suggests that good writing happens not despite our "busyness," but rather because we have found ways to attend to our outward lives by attending to our inward lives. Considers how the journal becomes a doorway to the…