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Miller, John P.; And Others – 1982
Discussions by 56 educators from a Canadian school district on their job satisfactions and dissatisfactions, aspirations, and life transitions in tape recorded interviews provided the primary data for this study of adult development among teachers and administrators. Secondary data were obtained from a questionnaire survey of an additional 383…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adult Development, Adults
Baines, Jim – 1980
Various aspects of aging in industrially developed and traditional societies are discussed in this monograph and bulletin. The objective of the monograph is to foster consciousness of the link between local and global concerns and of the need for a more humane world order. Discussion focuses on the marginality of older adults in industrialized…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Developed Nations
Peer reviewedCardinell, Charles F. – Action in Teacher Education, 1980
Stress and burnout are normal occurences that are common and predictable in all professions, including teaching. Strategies should be devised and implemented to reduce at least the intensity of the phenomena so that job satisfaction can increase while commitment to work remains high. (JD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fatigue (Biology)
Peer reviewedMaybach, Carol Wiechman – Education and Urban Society, 1996
Provides a critical perspective on service learning, and raises issues about focusing on the growth of students, which often ignores the service recipients and fails to ask how service is affecting the communities in which it is being performed. A new service-learning paradigm is offered to overcome some perceived inconsistencies in the existing…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Community Satisfaction, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textMasters, Billie Nave – 1991
The clan principle, the informal determination of human groups by totem characteristics, commonly accepted standards for self-definition, valued knowledge, and regulation of behavior, is a reality for American Indian and Native Alaskan cultures and for the mainstream urban, suburban, and industrial society as well. The tendency to group…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Etiology
Moffitt, Mary Anne – 1987
A Jungian psychoanalytic approach, using the unconscious animus/anima archetype, can explain the appeal of the romance novel to women readers through an understanding of how the romance formula fulfills the psychological needs of contemporary women as the struggle for identity in a patriarchal society. The heroine of the romance is attracted to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Characterization, Females, Feminism
Peer reviewedBurton, John W. – Social Science Record, 1988
Analyzes how the need to maintain the societal system results in the practice of power politics and the repression of human needs. Examines how democracy is an institutionalized means of resistance to demands for human needs. States that the Western political philosophy's interest-oriented system is a major source of global violence. (GEA)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Communism, Democracy, Foreign Policy
Peer reviewedWalker, Kay – Journal of Navajo Education, 1996
Maslow's theory of a hierarchy of needs is used to analyze Navajo youths' struggles for identity, fulfillment, and self-esteem. Answers to the challenges of substance abuse, violence, and gang membership are offered based upon George Bearden's eight-step plan, which stresses the importance of understanding human needs to perceive and transform…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Juvenile Gangs
McDermott, J. Cynthia – Hands On, 1995
Teaching conformity through coercion limits students' willingness to take risks and make decisions regarding their learning. In contrast, a Foxfire classroom environment that meets psychological needs empowers students to make choices about their learning, eliminates fear of failure, allows students to establish their own standards of achievement,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Compliance (Psychology), Educational Change, Educational Practices
Boyd, Bill – 1993
Research suggests that successful staff development must attend to teachers' affective and humanistic needs. This paper presents strategies for staff development that are based in an affective and humanistic context. The following principles of adult learning are particularly relevant to teacher-staff development: Adults perceive themselves as…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Affective Behavior, Collegiality, Elementary School Teachers
Bagozzi, Richard P.; Van Loo, M. Frances – 1978
The paper describes a research project to determine fertility-related family decision making processes. Fertility-related decisions are interpreted as all ultimate choices made by spouses concerning the number and spacing of children they will have. Specifically, the research investigated how factors such as the desire for more or less egalitarian…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Birth Rate, Contraception, Cooperation
Plath, Hans-Eberhard – 2001
In Germany and elsewhere, the literature on current and future work requirements rarely discusses the effects of globalization, internationalization, computerization, and other factors from the point of view of workers. Some have suggested that a blurring of limits will be one of the main changes in work in the future. This blurring will involve…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, At Risk Persons, Competence
