While there are many varieties of learning activities geared to individual levels of ability, one of the best keys to inspire students to achieve more than they have in the past is to care about them. (Author)

Offers an untraditional approach to the freshman year in college based on various notions including the formulated concept of Functional Potential (FP). (DS)

The large school must organize itself to recognize individual human needs or face continual disruption. The author concludes that the specifics depend upon a constellation of factors inherent in any given situation. (Editor)

A discussion of the main historical roots and the key features of the contemporary crisis of the erosion of legitimation and the loss of meaning. Author traces the course of capitalism from a puritan to a hedonistic ethos and discusses postmodern alternatives of social philosophy. (Author/JB)

A humanistic sociology would ask which institutions and social arrangements, supported by which values and norms, promote the capacity and ability of groups and individuals to make free and responsibile choices in light of their needs, to grow, to explore new possibilities, and to do more than simply survive. (Author/JB)

Study results indicate that the single group is significantly more family oriented than the married group in perceiving self and ideal woman. No significant differences were found between the two groups in perceiving man's ideal woman. Both married and single women indicated belief that most men would desire an ideal woman with a strong…

Paper presented at the third meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, April 15-17, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan. Reactor's statement to Florence Steiner's Individualized Instruction", FL 501 691. (DS)

The author contends that to be human is to have deep needs for contact, to become aware of these needs and to seek to have them satisfied in self and in others in appropriate ways. Counseling is a process in which contact can be established and these needs satisfied. (Author/CG)

When not understood as normal consequences of growth and aging, sexual fluctuations can be the source of personal and marital distress. Discussed are sexual behavior norms as they change from infancy to old age. (Author/CJ)

An instructional program in guidance can help prevent accumulation of pressures and frustrations, and contribute toward reduction of guidance needs of children. Regular classroom teachers trained in techniques of group interaction can be more effective in implementing an instructional program in guidance than school counselors. (Author)