This paper discusses the necessity for scientific and technical personnel to maintain personal files and the limitations of centralized information services in meeting the diverse and changing information access requirements of these personnel. A prototype service is described that uses a computer to aid individuals organize, maintain and find…

This paper and a set of correlated video tapes were prepared to be used especially by school personnel interested in the Multiunit school which provides a facilitative environment for three functions: (1) modifying current practices and developing an effective system of individually guided education within each building; (2) participating in…

The communication skills center at Carnegie Mellon University helps individual students master the technical writing skills necessary for specific disciplines and professions. Through collaboration with the instructors in the various disciplines, the program operates both as a consulting service outside the center (devising and evaluating the…

Methods developed for investigating group processes and contents among four Senior Citizens' discussion groups are described. The process dimensions are boundary behaviors, subgrouping, normative behaviors, organizing, establishing personal significance, group and leader interchanges, self disclosures, conflict, support, and emotional atmosphere.…

Liberal arts education and occupational education can and must complement each other. Different and separately administered general and vocational offerings will only delay the development of the total education enterprise necessary in a rapidly changing society. It is important to contemplate the skills and knowledge that…

This tenth and last article in the series briefly reviews the objectives of the series and introduces a framework for further understanding and implementing the ideas that are useful to individual retirees. (Author/MLF)

To meet the needs of the handicapped, vocational training programs for handicapped people should provide individuals with technical, personal, social, and communication competencies. As competition for Federal funds becomes more acute, questions will increasingly focus on program effectiveness. Data on young deaf adults, even with professional or…

The author discusses the problematic term "community psychology" in relation to the many experiences he has had, personally, in the profession. When community psychologists concern themselves with social issues, they quite often adopt the "oversocialized conception of man," which allows for no change and rests firmly on the status quo. Another…

The learning activity package (LAP) is a flexible, contract-learning approach based on concepts or skills organized around performance objectives, multi-dimensional learning materials, and evaluation. Characterized as self-contained, student-oriented, and self-directed, these packages are used for remediation, review, summarization, introduction,…

An overall perspective is made of the disadvantaged child in relation to his education. Various personal and social characteristics of such a child are enumerated as well as what characteristics the teacher should have. The author names three primary needs of the disadvantaged child: cultural readiness, language readiness (both expressive and…

To determine if opinion change might be dependent in part on the interpersonal needs of the participants of seven seminar sections, need level was measured by FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation) in three areas: inclusion, control, and affection. Three nonresidential groups met weekly for 15 weeks; four residential groups met…

Excerpts from the addresses of 14 symposium contributors are presented. Relevant to the theme "Reading and the Individual," the necessity for encouraging creativity in learning and in teaching was stressed in three articles, and the threat to the individual's freedoms posed by today's society was discussed in one article. Creativity in writing and…

This document includes the complete text of 23 papers presented at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Junior Colleges. The papers pertain to (1) improved utilization of college professionals, (2) providing attention to individual needs (3) innovations in business instruction, (4) early childhood education, (5) new approaches in…

The Competency Based Teacher Preparation Program at the University of Houston and its complementary management system have evolved from a set of logically derived assumptions about the nature of teaching. The program characteristics call for a program that is founded in the reality of the teaching act, treats all of the persons involved therein as…

The IALAC (I Am Loveable and Capable) story presents one day in the life of 14 year old Randy, who puts on his IALAC sign each morning and sets out to face the world. As "put-downs" occur at home and at school, little pieces of his sign are torn away; by the end of the day very little of the sign remains. This allegory is a tool for humanistic…