Discusses various ways in which context may be interpreted to enhance learning and performance; illustrates domains of learning using a hockey team as an example; and suggests implications for learning, performance, and instructional design. Highlights include an ecological systems model; and examples of individual development, team learning, and…

Explains executive coaching, which is traditionally focused on individual executives, and how it can help align individual development with an organization's strategic goals. Describes a counseling model of identifying an individual's goals, challenges, and development needs and then helping him or her gain insight on how to address these needs.…

The crisis of modernity increases the tension between individual and societal development. Brookfield's critical thinking model of adult education tries to reduce societal dimensions into personal growth. Jarvis' adult learning model reduces personal development to adaptation to societal demands. Adult education needs new models to reconcile the…

Views disability as opportunity for reframing physical and emotional difficulties. Explores strategies for facilitating personal healing and empowerment, including self-forgiveness and positive self-talk. (Authors/CM)

Agricultural education encompasses basic sciences and business management principles. Critical curriculum components are (1) technical agriculture (basic principles, functions, and technical specialties of agriculture); (2) experiential learning; and (3) human development. (SK)

The paper argues that education is essentially the same activity for all people with or without disabilities. The argument is founded on John Dewey's theory of education, with its emphasis on the process of making sense of experience, and Paulo Friere's view of education as liberating people to become more fully human. (JDD)

Home economics curriculum for middle schools should be based on development of self-forming individuals as family members, on the needs and characteristics of early adolescents, and on the practical problems faced by early adolescents in the process of growth and development. (SK)

Presents an interview with psychologist and author Mary Field Belenky. Explores her collaborative work with three other authors in compiling findings on women's cognitive, intellectual, and ethical development. Identifies shortfalls in the traditional ways of looking at women. Notes greater recent attention paid to the teaching of writing. (SG)

Sixty-one entrepreneurs were interviewed concerning their reasons for starting their own businesses, advantages of entrepreneurship, risk taking, definitions of success, personal assets and liabilities, ideas for the future, dealing with competition, advice to potential entrepreneurs, socializing, and their hobbies and sports. (JDD)

Reports two experiments in which plain blocks of various sizes were presented in various spatial orientations to children three-eight years old in an attempt to establish how they represent three-dimensional spatial relations pictorially. Results showed that young children represented depth in the array vertically in the picture plane. (RH)

Findings highlight the importance of development-related control efforts and beliefs for achieving a subjectively favorable balance of developmental gains and losses and for maintaining an optimistic perspective in middle and later adulthood. Results are discussed with reference to a theoretical model of development-related control activities. (RH)

Relates personal experiences of a sociologist of Asian origin in an effort to illustrate problems inherent in the process of becoming accepted as an academic sociologist. Identifies important themes of marginality, credibility, and impression management. Points out ways in which the Asian sociologists can go about achieving credibility. (KO)

Describes a personal evolution into early childhood advocacy. The case study reaffirms that becoming an early childhood advocate requires individuals to care and to translate that care into actions which will help others to care. (RJC)

Explored how six humanistically oriented graduate students reconciled self and social responsibility. Results suggest that personal growth, meaningful work experiences, and social change values may be related. Generated questions for further empirical research. (Author/ABL)

Finds that 39 teenagers participating in Project USE, an adventure education program, showed significant increases in 7 of 12 self-actualization factors and in self-perception of personal change. Discusses the goals and basic format of Outward Bound training conducted by Project USE. Contains 26 references. (SV)