This book helps to alleviate the problem of finding specific books for each child by taking into consideration the child's reading abilities, interests, and personal problems. The many factors which influence children's reactions to books are spelled out as well as the effect of physical makeup and format upon children's choices. The nature of the…

Medical and non-medical group mental health approaches are discussed. In the medical approach groups are set up for the treatment of the psychopathology of the members and group therapy or group psychotherapy methods are utilized. The clients are selected by the therapist who determines what kind of group would be most beneficial for the patient.…

Because junior college students so frequently need remedial reading training and grammar review and because few teachers in such institutions have special training in reading instruction, a reading center was set up at Flint Community Junior College in Michigan. The Center used 2,500 square feet and a variety of types of equipment and materials…

According to Wellesley A. Foshay, in order to achieve a humane curriculum subject matter and each experience must be responsive to the human condition in the context of all pedagogical intentions of the teacher. Six classes of experience--intellectual, emotional, social, physical, aesthetic, and spiritual--make up the human existence. Teachers may…

The book and its companion workbook offer a complete program in vocational guidance and are intended as guides to students in the process of developing meaningful activities as they plan for further education and a career. Intended for use by senior high school, college, and university students, they are also valuable for self-study or as an…

A major goal of education should be to prepare every young person leaving school to enter higher education or to enter useful and rewarding work. This is the goal of Project Trident, a comprehensive career education program being developed at Lincoln Community High School, Illinois. The project, in its planning year, is directed toward secondary…

The purpose of this curriculum guide is to help the kindergarten teacher in his endeavor to fulfill his teaching responsibilities. Space is provided for teachers' additions, deletions, notes and criticisms which will be useful when the guide is revised. The guide is sectioned according to subject matter (English, math, science, and social…

The purposes of this study were to: (1) produce self-control of academic behavior in a ninth-grade typing and an eleventh grade accounting class by providing continuous self-generated feedback through various devices; (2) to assess the relative merits of each device; and (3) to study those factors accounting for behavior change under…

The characterizations of women in three of Federico Fellini's films can be used to demonstrate the process of self-actualization real women experience during the fulfillment of the promises of the women's liberation movement. The films "La Dolce Vita" and "8 1/2" portray traditional stereotypes of women with traditional…

A major goal of the elementary and secondary schools is to help each person become an efficient and autonomous learner. Outlined in this report are skills abstracted from the literature on such topics as verbal learning, problem solving, study habits, and behavior modification. The learner-oriented skills are presented so that they may be…

Any physiological process which can be monitored in some way may provide biofeedback, which can range from galvanic skin resistance to electroencephalograph (EEG) alpha feedback. Biofeedback techniques have several implications and applications for research in both intrapersonal and interpersonal communication. Both EEG alpha and electromyograph…

This book is one of a series of four in which issues affecting the organization and work of the British Infant School are considered. The series, "Young Children Learning", is designed to express current educational theory in terms of the practical work of teachers and children in infant schools. The books include recent research into…

The purpose of the overview is to describe in narrative and graphic form, processes for incorporating career development activities in the educational program of local school districts which can be related to identifiable and measurable consumer objectives. Possible feasible and desirable outcomes are in the areas of decision-making skills,…

This study analyzed how authors of selected books present their main character with regard to his personal development problems, how he resolves them, and what happens to his personal development in the process. On the basis of which Newbery Medal Award books were best suited for a study of how the main character develops, "Up A Road…

Schools have been paying too much attention to intellect alone, ignoring the total development of the student as a whole. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the cognitive domain categorizes knowledge into knowledge of specifics, knowledge of ways and means of dealing with specifics, and knowledge of the universals and abstractions in a…