Faculty advising is both important and neglected in student development. There are several alternatives with promise for the future. Student advisors are a beneficial and inexpensive adjunct to faculty advisors. A university counseling center plays a useful role in providing resources for training relevant to advising of students. (Author)

Describes the career education program implemented into the specialized secretarial courses at Queensborough Community College (New York); discusses how the career library is organized and how career-development activities are incorporated into classes and evaluated. (TA)

Describes the Fluid Power Technology Program at the Hennepin Technical Center in suburban Minneapolis (Minnesota), where students designed a prototype car which they believe will get 75 miles per gallon and cruise at 70 miles per hour. (HD)

The article contains an overview of the IDC-a learning laboratory initiated in September, 1973, at King College, Bristol, Tennessee. The article is focused upon the idea of developing such a Center, its goals, its services and conclusions. (Author)

The time has come! Prepare young consumers for the grown-up world of the marketplace. (Editor)

Notes for teachers on how to help students in recognizing life style options, sex stereotypes, career opportunities, socialization tendencies, legal rights, and flexibility in roles. (JT)

School psychologists should play a critical role in determining the policy implications of effective early childhood education and development programs. The tools of knowledge they use are: (1) human growth and development, learning, and program impact; (2) effects of programs on children; and (3) program implementation at the local level. (Author)

Discusses the classroom teacher's role in helping students to understand and develop realistic attitudes toward education and the world of work, and in providing educational experiences that will lead to positive work experiences. Emphasizes the need for basic research on career development. (MF)

Several pilot studies designed to stimulate moral thinking in classroom settings were discussed. Each offered a primary objective of the stimulation of mature moral thought and action. (Author/RK)

This research investigated the influence of a teacher education program on students' affective personality growth. Both affective and cognitive measures proved to be significant predictors of probable success in teaching home economics. (Editor/TA)

When science is learned through an activity-centered approach, it becomes a vehicle for learning skills that are necessary for everyday life. (Author)

In an attempt to delineate and distinguish some of the stresses for university students, the authors have separated them one from the other when in reality they are part of a totality, constantly interacting with each other. This normative developmental process is, however, an extremely painful one. (Author)

"Making it at school" may not necessarily mean "making it in life." The curriculum may be slow in catching up to basic new elements of higher literacy which will give to those engaged in the guidance and counselling field their greatest opportunity. (Author)

Despite the fact that reading, writing, and arithmetic are still thought to be mainstays of the primary school curriculum, more and more complaints are heard from all quarters that students are graduating from high school or post-secondary institutions without a firm grasp of these fundamentals of learning. (Author)

Discusses trends in German higher education over the last decade, focusing on the expansion and differentiation of postsecondary education, societal changes in the student population, and the relationship between education and social class in light of the "individualization thesis" of sociologist Ulrich Beck. (MDM)