Focuses on the social functions of children's play, an activity that human beings in general create in which the person sees him or herself reflected in what is generated, which is authentic and, for the most part, presupposes equality. (Author/JM)

An experiment in home improvement shows important gains for socially deprived students. (GB)

Author describes the procedure used for designing a place out-of-doors where opportunities for learning abound. (Author/CB)

Author stresses the great need for each teacher to use all of the available resources along with his own fresh look at the child in his situation in order to discover the meaning of the child's behavior from the child's own point of view. (Author/RK)

The concept of endeavor training is that personal achievement is attained through personal effort. Endeavor courses take from one to three years and vary according to the background of the participant. They involve arduous physical activities as well as participation in cultural, human, intellectual, and spiritual activities. (MS)

Study of regular changes in an interpersonal interaction over time, and how these changes can be related to the individual development sequences of the members of the interaction. (ST)

Author attempts to find basic relationships between five major components, which end up by shaping some basic organizational patterns for educational planning. (Author/RK)

A selection from Values in Transition: A Handbook", its thesis is that formal education...has an obligation to educate broadly along lines of the intellectual, emotional, and social components, notjust the intellectual one per se." (Author)

This paper presents the humanistic psychology of the pioneer American psychologist Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924), examining Hall's effort to develop a system of psychology that is at once rigorously scientific and, simultaneously, capable of verifying essential human values. (Author)

Six short stories and related questions that can be used as discussion starters to help children explore interpersonal relations. (RB)

A curriculum analysis instrument, Assessment of Humaneness, is presented for evaluating social studies programs by students and teachers. Also discussed is the author's position that the only appropriate social studies curriculum is one which stimulates the development of humaneness, of human capabilities. (DB)

A summary of the adolescents' perspective of government, individual rights, crime, and power through his middle years" of development. Concepts range from a utopian ideology to complete naivity and vague misconceptions. Characteristic attitudes reflecting nationalism are found among young citizens of Britain, Germany, U.S. (JB)

The study is an attempt to extend the construct validity of identity statuses (identity achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and identity diffusion) to a controlled interpersonal situation. (DB)