This article discusses social giftedness and its characteristics. Social giftedness is defined as the exceptional capacity to form mature, productive relationships and develop effective social interactions with peers and others. Special abilities include understanding, empathy, tolerance, and justice. A study using the Delphi technique to identify…

Presents a statement from the National Council for the Social Studies that focuses on citizenship education. Includes a list of characteristics of an effective citizen and an effective citizenship program. Encourages educators to prepare students to assume their roles as U.S. citizens. (CMK)

Discusses how older people respond to art, examining mental abilities developed in advanced age which would be helpful in developing art appreciation. Considers the cultural experience of older people and its implications for how they respond to art. Explores how older people's mental abilities and cultural experience can be considered in their…

Presents research findings that deal with teacher-librarians' leadership role in cooperative program planning and teaching and the personal characteristics that make that leadership more successful. Topics include the role of teachers and administrators, flexible scheduling, teacher-librarians as change agents, and professional development. (LRW)

Cites ten qualities of individuals embodying the values of a liberal education: the ability to listen and hear; read and understand; talk with anyone; write clearly and persuasively; solve varied problems; respect rigor as a way of seeking truth; practice humility, tolerance, and self-criticism; understand how to get things done; nurture and…

Suggests that integrating both principle ethics and virtue ethics into the professional standards of the counseling profession will provide a coherent structure for enhancing the ethical competence of psychologists and counselors. Virtue ethics, rooted in the narratives and aspirations of specific communities, can be particularly helpful to…

This article argues that the use of developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) as a label for infants and toddlers who are prelinguistic may prematurely label a young child. Diagnostic indicators are reviewed and suggestions for diagnostic therapy to pursue appropriate differential diagnoses in the infant-toddler population are proposed. (Contains…

This article discusses the benefits of a mentoring program to help gifted students, including helping students to mature, to explore future careers and successes, to apply classroom knowledge, and to gain role models. Strategies for selecting students for a mentoring program and for implementing a mentoring program are provided. (Contains…

There is much more to a learning disabled (LD) child's successful learning than part-to-whole or whole-to-part instruction. Among the many factors to be considered are his/her learning style, interests, abilities, aptitudes, health, and parental support. Instructional programs for learning disabled children should be based on the students'…

Collected in this textbook are approximately 30 brief articles and related materials concerning the traits, development, nurturing, and education of children from infancy through early childhood. While varied, material in each of the six sections generally centers on (1) characteristics, traits, and developmental issues in infancy, preschool and…

The advantages and disadvantages of being the spouse of a male college president are considered, along with the roles of the president and his spouse. Attention is directed to the ceremonial role of the president and his wife, on-campus entertaining, travel to speak to groups, the wife's problem of securing adequate help for her social role, the…

Conditions in India that contribute to child abuse and neglect are discussed. Sections focus on child rearing practices, discipline of children at home and in school, the nation's six million abandoned children, child sexual abuse, causes of abuse, poverty, lack of education, characteristics of abused children and their abusers, situational…

The contributions of personal qualities and role behavior to the leadership of college presidents are discussed. Managerial leadership might be viewed as a developmental process, whereby different personal qualities and role behaviors are important to leader identification, selection, and evaluation. When individuals are first identified as…

A Malaysian perspective on the secondary school curriculum and the adolescent is offered in this paper. The discussion initially reviews characteristics of adolescents, focusing on their psychological needs, and particularly, friendship, love and affection, interests, discipline and responsibility, environmental pressures, dislocation of the line…

The theories of James MacGregor Burns as expressed in his book, "Leadership" (1978), suggest that transformational leadership engages all persons to varying degrees throughout the levels and interstices of society. Burns believes that the transforming leader not only exploits a need or demand of a follower but also looks for his…