A gay law professor believes that gay people will be fully equal only when society stops conditioning their inclusion on assimilation to straight norms. Against advice of counsel, the professor discusses his right, and that of others, to express authentic selfhood.

Based on Kolb's cycle of problem solving, a case study of self-development as a basis for individual employee training in the Housing Corporation, London, is described. (SK)

Without adequate reading comprehension, writing proficiency, math competency, and critical thinking skills, students pursuing higher education are vulnerable to failure. An environmental Science course built around academic wholism is the focus of a summer program designed to bridge the gap between high school and college. Students self-reflect…

Seikatsu tsuzurikata is a grassroots movement in Japan that has many parallels to the whole language movement, but it developed completely independently, beginning in the late 1920s. Our research into this movement was conducted in 1984 and described in Kitagawa and Kitagawa (1987). We are now updating our earlier research. Seikatsu tsuzurikata is…

Education is very necessary for man in order to articulate himself and achieve fullness. But the formal system, which is elitist, discriminatory and instalmental, cannot alone provide all education one needs for self-fulfillment. The terminologies, such as, continuing education, recurrent education, education permanente and life-long education,…

As the nation emerged from the Great Depression and as the world hurtled toward a Second World War, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) re-examined the purpose of American Education. AASA joined with the National Education Association to convene an Education Policies Commission that set forth "four great groups of…

Women and men are still segregated into different occupations. There has been a marked underrepresentation of women in science and technology fields for many years, despite some increases in the number of women earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in science. The notion of possible selves can be applied broadly to the problem of why the…

A model is described for changing the emphasis of training in an organization from a teaching process to one of encouraging learning. A case study gives an example of a learning circle in operation. (Author/SK)

Summarizes an activity designed to remind counselors of language patterns that enable clients to re-create their conception of reality and claim their inherent personal power. The multiple choice activity presents examples of ways counselors can help clients choose language that expresses personal control. (JAC)

A recreational program designed to teach constructive use of leisure time is described. (JD)

Describes self-organizing activities and the natural emergence of new systems as a model for a new type of learning environment. Explores the facilitation of self-organizing activities in a separate learning space with an organization and outlines theoretical elements for making the space successful. (Contains 26 references.) (JOW)

This chapter describes the educational possible selves of low-income mothers as they make the transition from welfare to work.

The core purpose of this paper is to describe a new educational paradigm as well as possible directions and tasks for education reform in the 21st century. The present-day education system has failed to nurture the kind of creative people who can play leading roles in development or to produce citizens of a good character and democratic…

English 101 is described as an experiment in self-discovery, and various classroom activities, exercises, experiments, projects, and assignments are suggested along with an appropriate reading list. (CM)

Portrays the character of Edna from Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening" as a reflection of current society's motivation in seeking fleeting (kinetic) pleasure instead of lasting (katastematic) pleasure. Presents Epicurean philosophy as a means of teaching katastematic pleasure in modern education. (10 citations) (EMH)