By omitting the private and positive dimensions of morality and focusing on a single dimension of moral experience, interpersonal value conflict, Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development Program presents a one-sided interpretation of ethics--one which in educational practice is likely to produce morally imbalanced students. (Author/LC)

Medical research during the last 20 years, especially that attempting to help patients with diseased or damaged brains, has produced new findings on hemispheric differences, memory, and language production. Four authorities comment briefly on the implications of this research for education. (Author/MLF)

The developmental process of postsecondary administrators was studied at Rutgers. The research procedure, research population, typical survey questions, data analyses, and findings are reported. Five variables (entry level, performance-contingent rewards, performance appraisal process, level of formal education, job complexity, and responsibility)…

"On the Level," a classroom video series developed for 14- to 17-year-olds, is being broadcast by many public television stations. The series was designed to promote personal and social growth among adolescents. Suggestions given for the effective use of the series by teachers include: (1) selecting appropriate questions and activities; and (2)…

Following a brief discussion of the "occupational diseases" of teaching are some questions which teachers can ask themselves to help define for themselves how they might use the teaching process to enrich themselves as people. (KC)

Adolescents need to develop a positive sense of belonging, of competence and of self-worth. Clothing is a silent but powerful language. Adolescents use clothing to help them cope with changes. Clothing functions in a positive way in the transition period from childhood to adulthood. (Author/BEF)

Discusses modern health education as concerned with fostering human potential. Suggests health educators are going beyond a disease-orientation to one of fostering health. Defines health education as including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor components with primary goals of achieving increased vitality and integration among physical, mental,…

The role played by the Black family in the self-concept development and achievement orientation of Black children is discussed. Also examined is the role teachers can play in maintaining and reinforcing these values in adolescents. (MC)

Self-realization requires both protection and challenge from the environment. The developmental conditions of home and school are not meeting the needs of different children with their highly diverse and unique potentialities, especially in the provision of a proper balance between protection and challenge. (Author/SJL)

The expressive arts, literature, film and song, are mediums for dramatic exposure of human experience with loss. This paper identifies concerns with loss, in students of any age, viewing the arts as a mode of learning in the classroom which elicits feelings and illustrates materials and techniques for expression. (Author)

Considers the way people create knowledge, the way personal knowledge grows, and the types of educative environments that are supportive to students' efforts to improve their knowledge. (GT)

The author reviews life in the 1970s and 1980s from the viewpoint of a home economist living in the future--1995. Focuses are on family and community, role of community. lifelong learning centers, the role of computers, and information retrieval. (CT)

Describes symptoms of teacher burnout, notes specific problems faced by reading teachers, and suggests ways reading teachers can treat professional burnout and enhance their personal lives. (GT)

Examines individual differences in psychological development among prospective teachers as these affect the adaptive, "person-centered" quality of their communication with students. Discusses implications of the results in terms of the impact of differences in teachers' communicative development upon development of students. (JMF)

Recounts how three publications influenced the career of a reading specialist. (JT)