This paper describes an alternative approach to undertaking and evaluating sexual health promotion, focusing on the notion of "sexual scenes" and "scenarios" and how these can provide a vantage point from which to examine sexual experience. The concept of sexual scenes provides a context within which to analyse many of the…

Role-playing games in natural resource management are currently being tested as research, training, and intervention tools all over the world. Various studies point out their potential to deal with complex issues and to contribute to training processes. The objective of this contribution is to analyze the limits and potentialities of this tool for…

This paper considers features of domestic and social life aboard sail training vessels, exploring the particular character of life at sea, and how these features contribute to the distinctive character of sail training experience as a context for learning. Methodologically, the study lies in the sociological tradition of ethnography, focusing on…

This paper describes storyboarding, a technique for team project planning which can be applied by students with and without disabilities in a wide variety of contexts. Introductory paragraphs describe the process and briefly review the history of storyboarding. Various roles of team members are delineated, such as sanctioner, project leader,…

This paper examines how levels of cognitive development affect participants'"adequateness" or ability to function in adventure groups. Twenty-three women who were newly elected or appointed officers of a university campus sorority participated in the study. Prior to the group experience, participants completed a paragraph-completion exercise to…

Problems in organizational groups are often defined around one pivotal and difficult group member. Based upon C. Stohl and S. Schell's concepts of farrago (a confusing group member who becomes the relational focus of the group), 28 undergraduate students and management personnel who frequently participate in group work were interviewed to validate…

An ecosystem approach to evaluation attempts to involve those responding to the evaluation in the process of redesigning the environment. To evaluate residence hall life at Indiana University in 1983 using an ecosystem approach, 799 systematically selected college residence hall inhabitants (58% female, 49% freshmen) completed a questionnaire…

A field study was conducted with a cross-section of the population in rural and urban Canadian regions to discover whether people were performing economic activities of significance to their well-being that differ from those society usually acknowledges as being economic in nature. In both rural and urban areas, the economy was viewed as being…

The author presents a short history of the Marriage Encounter movement. He discusses the underlying theory of the movement which involves a faith in God and developing dialogue between the husband and wife. Weekend encounter sessions are also described. (EJT)

The present report consists of two studies which were designed to determine (1) the differential effects of time spent in encounter groups on participants' responses to the POI, and (2) the degree to which changes are maintained. (Author)

An examination of Synanon's innovative experiment in collective child rearing and education which includes a detailed description of the Synanon School, including its history and development, organization, and census data on its resident children. Special emphasis is placed on Synanon as a new, emerging self-contained community, the extensive use…

In a pilot study conducted on a sample of predominantly white, middle-class students in a mid-Atlantic private university, the relationship between residential environment and attitudes toward marriage was explored. The study demonstrated an affinity between cohabitation before marriage or living in communal groups and belief in equalitarian sex…

The Center for Independent Living (CIL) is a comprehensive residential program serving the elderly blind in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by providing opportunities for its students to adapt and develop self-help skills in daily living and in more difficult physical and mental tasks. (Author)

A study examined the relationship between participation and performance in groups to determine whether increased communicative activity brought about through participation in groups resulted in the acquisition of specific types of organizational knowledge and increased motivation which positively affected performance. Subjects for the study were…

The study was conducted to assess residence hall student attitudes toward student-athletes at a predominantly white, eastern public institution. A total of 180 students living in traditional residence halls, suites, and apartments were sent the Situational Attitude Scale--Student-Athlete of whom 115 returned usable responses. Results showed that…