Following a brief discussion of the "occupational diseases" of teaching are some questions which teachers can ask themselves to help define for themselves how they might use the teaching process to enrich themselves as people. (KC)

Adolescents need to develop a positive sense of belonging, of competence and of self-worth. Clothing is a silent but powerful language. Adolescents use clothing to help them cope with changes. Clothing functions in a positive way in the transition period from childhood to adulthood. (Author/BEF)

Discusses modern health education as concerned with fostering human potential. Suggests health educators are going beyond a disease-orientation to one of fostering health. Defines health education as including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor components with primary goals of achieving increased vitality and integration among physical, mental,…

The role played by the Black family in the self-concept development and achievement orientation of Black children is discussed. Also examined is the role teachers can play in maintaining and reinforcing these values in adolescents. (MC)

Self-realization requires both protection and challenge from the environment. The developmental conditions of home and school are not meeting the needs of different children with their highly diverse and unique potentialities, especially in the provision of a proper balance between protection and challenge. (Author/SJL)

The expressive arts, literature, film and song, are mediums for dramatic exposure of human experience with loss. This paper identifies concerns with loss, in students of any age, viewing the arts as a mode of learning in the classroom which elicits feelings and illustrates materials and techniques for expression. (Author)

Considers the way people create knowledge, the way personal knowledge grows, and the types of educative environments that are supportive to students' efforts to improve their knowledge. (GT)

The author reviews life in the 1970s and 1980s from the viewpoint of a home economist living in the future--1995. Focuses are on family and community, role of community. lifelong learning centers, the role of computers, and information retrieval. (CT)

Describes symptoms of teacher burnout, notes specific problems faced by reading teachers, and suggests ways reading teachers can treat professional burnout and enhance their personal lives. (GT)

Examines individual differences in psychological development among prospective teachers as these affect the adaptive, "person-centered" quality of their communication with students. Discusses implications of the results in terms of the impact of differences in teachers' communicative development upon development of students. (JMF)

Recounts how three publications influenced the career of a reading specialist. (JT)

Mothers were asked to predict their children's responses to standardized intelligence test items. Negative correlation was expected between inaccurate maternal knowledge of children's ability and degree of children's psychological development. False maternal predictions correlated - .80 with correct children's responses. Nearly all of the…

The history of the Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner) movement is outlined and an introduction to the philosophy and methods underlying it is given. (JD)

Reviews the demands placed on counselor-trainees. Counselor-trainees must continue to work on problems related to their own identity crises. These problems include psychosocial development, vocational development and other changing relationships. A few programs providing services are listed. (Author/BEF)

Community colleges, it is stated, are defined by outcomes as well as process: lifelong education for individual and community development. Community colleges have helped meet specific needs in their communities and many have cooperative arrangements with other organizations, agencies, and institutions in their communities. (MLW)