Explains the historical background for four presuppositions which have governed penitentiary education in Canada. Calls for new approaches to the education of prison inmates and for related research. (Author/SB)

Describes the method and procedures used and results of research into 72 students' participation in a psychology course emphasizing self-modification. Findings showed that students were able to produce significant changes as a result of course participation and application of self-control procedures. (CK)

An examination of weaknessess in behaviorist and humanist models of education evaluation provides a basis for a structuralist model. This model is grounded in developmental stages, the structure of the child and the curriculum, and the idea of education as a bridge between these structures to assist the development of the child. (JMF)

Educational needs and problems for which teacher centers may offer possible solutions are pointed out. (JD)

Describes a program of outdoor adventure activities within which managers can develop their powers to cope with change and to solve problems. (SK)

Results lend support to the other research findings and point to the difficulties that many overweight individuals have during a weight-reduction endeavor because they also must deal with the numerous psychological and physiological problems involved in overcoming a history of being obese. (Author)

Selecting managers with high leadership quotients is only part of an organization's task. Grooming managers for effective interpersonal functioning involves knowing what traits and skills are to be enhanced, and then designing programs which cultivate a deep understanding of human nature and of the self. (LRA)

The Youth Society is a free self-education and cooperation organization independent of party politics. It is the most democratic Finnish popular movement. The program includes arts and sports as well as learning and social participation. The goal is the development of people into good individuals and alert citizens. (JOW)

This question-and-answer session was conducted at the New School for Social Research in the spring of 1962. Maslow comments on creativity, peak experiences, drug use, self-actualization, religion, and his psychology of Being. (SJL)

The principal who faces himself or herself and chooses, whatever the choice, will find comfort in the knowledge that he or she has taken charge, not of a situation or of the problems of other people, but of himself or herself. (Author/IRT)

Individual responsibility for one's own health will be the next major advancement in the health status of the American people. (JD)

Indicates that perceptions of oneself and one's body are primarily related to sexual behavior rather than sexual standards. The individual develops self- and body image in interaction. These images are the basis for behavioral decisions involving sexual as well as other kinds of action. (Author)

Educators bear the responsibility to continually nurture the natural and biological optimism inherent in their students. (LH)

The research reported tests three theoretical descriptions of the relative impact of childhood and later socialization experiences on adult behavior, using the specific context of female sexual socialization. The theories tested are derived from Freud, Brim, and Gagnon and Simon. (Author)

Examines some of the trends in the human potential movement as they came out in a conference. (IRT)