An explanation is given of the three cognitive style dimensions and the instruments that are useful in determining students' learning style. Special emphasis is on application to instruction in biology. (SA)

Points out characteristics of young adolescents, including mood swings, concern with self, and reliance on peers as a reference group. (Author/RH)

Points out positive aspects of mainstreaming for both hadicapped and nonhandicapped children. Indicates specific teaching approaches appropriate for children with special needs such as language/speech disability, and mental, hearing, visual and physical impairments. Provides 10 guidelines for teaching in the mainstreamed classroom. (Author/RH)

Different personalities will behave quite differently in similar circumstances and, however strong structural pressures may be, results may not be at all similar for two different personalities. (Author)

Some schools do a poor job of preparing youth for responsible adulthood. The root problems seem to be failure to perceive adequately the urgency of the socialization problem and the tendency to oversimplify the measures needed to correct the situation. (Author/MLF)

Studies based on an individual-difference model of student learning are reviewed. The "fitting" of conceptual models of student learning to atypical individual-similarity data structures is discussed, and an experimental categorization for such structures is outlined. Use of a locus model is also examined. It is argued that conceptual models of…

This article presents a model to evaluate the imagination and creativity of strategic planners. Characteristics recommended for strategic planners include the cognitive styles of extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceptive; marginal personality orientation, which allows for an open-minded viewpoint with integrative skills; internal locus of…

Presents edited text of an interview with Else Granheim, the first woman president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Topics discussed include personal and professional attributes that are helpful in a career in IFLA, the role of women in the association, developments in IFLA, and the role of Third…

Creatively gifted individuals propose ideas that initially seem odd, but they "invest" in these ideas, bring them to fruition, and convince other people of their worth. Creatively gifted individuals display a combination of six resources that function interactively: intelligence, knowledge, styles of thinking, personality, motivation, and…

Discusses qualities needed by library school graduates to fill positions in industrial special libraries and the skills industrial library managers expect to be included in the curricula of library schools. Topics addressed include professional knowledge and skills, interpersonal skills and personal characteristics, personal and professional…

Responds to the initial article in this issue that proposes a set of 22 sequentially structured statements on the nature and origin of human abilities, gifts, and talents. Offers an alternative psychometric, quantitative perspective that sees gifts as broad, general analytic capabilities, and talents as specific, content-bound capabilities. (CR)

A counselor with a dyslexic-like disability shares three conclusions concerning this type of disability. First, difficulties with reading, math, writing, heard language, and nonverbal language are not the disability but the symptom of the disability. Second, these disabilities are dynamic in nature and therefore the symptoms fluctuate somewhere…

This paper provides a critical analysis of African American adolescents who achieve academically and explores the coping strategies these individuals employ to achieve academic success. It is hypothesized that African American adolescents achieve because they possess intrinsic values such as persistence and patience, or perhaps they are socialized…

It is argued that careful attention to the role of the researcher's experience in qualitative research is desirable for several reasons. A rationale for such examination is established, and the research and scholarly activity pursued by the author for the last 11 years are described to present a kind of career case study for analysis of the…

The current age has been characterized as an Age of Materialism in which personal goals are material aims and pleasures. The need for getting back to a spiritual culture is considered foundational. It is the duty of educators to provide for the spiritual or affective domain of a learner's development. To neglect this aspect of a person's being is…