Presents a model for strategic, therapeutic interventions to help children stop repetitive behavioral sequences that offer protection from painful losses, but block the grief process. (Author/RH)

Examines four problems with current rhetorical definitions of movements: the assumption that movements are linear phenomena; over-emphasis on cause and effect analysis; stress on intentional analysis; and rigid definitions. Suggests a more open study which lets the critic define the movement by the study done and argue for its usefulness and…

Research related to psycholinguistics, language, and creativity is reviewed and found to be inadequate in defining reading. A definition of giftedness is suggested to cover a person who makes the most sense out of the world at any given moment in time within any given culture. (CL)

Identifies universal themes from different definitions of industrial arts that have evolved to assess the amount of progress or stagnation that has taken place in the past 10 to 15 years. (CT)

Five articles focus on approaches to training gifted students in leadership skills.

Cautions that there is too much wishful thinking and fanciful rhetoric in citizenship education in the United States today and too little room for objectives that are feasible and acceptable to students. Suggests that citizenship education should include a study of the following principles--rational ignorance, rational voting, representative…

Discusses two issues concerning home economics education: (1) the lack of congruence between the way home economics educators define themselves and the way in which they actually perform, and (2) the level of students attracted to home economics and the sequence of their professional education. (CT)

Outlines the history of the terms "derivation,""affix," and "prefix," and of the corresponding grammatical notions, from their origins in the ancient Latin and Hebrew grammars to present day usage. Discusses concepts developed by classic and medieval philosophers on grammatical terminology and theory. (MES)

Examples of pattern cues that are available to profoundly hearing-impaired children are presented through an optical analog, and the usefulness of these cues is shown with regard to vowel and consonant identification, word stress-pattern perception, and distinction among sentences that differ in number of syllables, pattern, intensity, or rate.…

Suggests a new definition of relevance as it relates to information retrieval and compares the use of the term in theoretical models by Swets and by Maron and Kuhns. (FM)

An examination of current definitions of creativity, the characteristics of creative individuals, and an overview of J. Piaget's theory of development are presented. (PHR)

Federal programs improving services to migrant children are reviewed. Noted are the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS), a computerized system for keeping track of children's concept achievements from one locale to another, and the Oral Language Skills List, a record of language transmitted through the MSRTS. (CL)

Responses of 44 states to a survey on definitions of the preschool handicapped population are provided. Findings indicated that only seven states had a definition for preschool handicapped, 43 percent had no current guidelines or intent to comply with requirements of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), and 32…

The problem of undefined content in career/consumer/economic education is not new. A way to sort out the relationships is to identify important concepts in each area. (Author/MLF)

The team administration model used in the Rio Linda School District is explained, including a definition of the concept, organizational structures, general operations, and problem solving strategies. (SJL)