The "Greenbag" worksheets are an essential part of the "Greenbook System"--an integrated sequence of five programs designed for professional development for anyone interested in, or involved in, a career in higher education. In this system, each student develops an individualized "Greenbook" containing critical data…

The five enabling objectives and related learning experiences presented in this learning package help the student to examine his own abilities and attitudes for ways in which he can contribute to society through his work, help foster in him a realization of the value and importance of work performed at all levels, and encourage him to use his…

Both the content and process of graduate education promote adult development. Graduate programs, particularly nontraditional programs, can both address the growing adult and uphold relevant standards of intellectual excellence and professional expertise. Life phases, developmental stages, and learning styles are three domains that are described.…

Operation Breakthrough, in which graduate student interns teach life skills to adolescents with learning disabilities, provided an impetus for identifying a profile of learning and work habits necessary for production of an agile workforce. Agile learning for self-systems improvement calls for self-empowered learning, collaborative learning,…

Over the past 30 years, many changes have taken place in education in Scotland. Adult learning has increasingly figured in the broad canvas of education, teachers are increasingly being viewed as mangers of learning resources or facilitators of learning, and the emphasis has shifted from imbibing knowledge through books to active learning and…

Proposing an educational maxim that education is for self-fulfillment and societal adaptation, the paper argues that the educational methods or teaching strategies of "learning self-fulfillment" must be different. The curriculum must be rational and flexible, exposing a child to as many things as possible to facilitate self-fulfillment.…

This paper summarizes some of the considerations which have affected the Center's research directions during the first half year of operation. The focus on the individual and on how educational policy choices relate to the individual is justified by three characteristics of the years ahead. (1) The role of education in alleviating social problems…

This study examined how the promotion of choice in three schools affected the structure of early adolescent peer culture. The very structure of the roles and incentive systems in the schools, by failing to address the social context of individualism, fostered an ethos of possessive individualism. (RM)

In Australia, the two principal streams of emancipatory adult education have been focused on the liberal tradition of freedom from traditional social and religious constraints through learning and on having suppressed groups understand and overthrow the conditions of their oppression. Australians appear to be having difficulty coping with the…

Written with the practitioner in mind, this overview of the theory and practice of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology explains the dimensions and uses of natural and logical consequences--the twin bases of Adlerian/Individual Psychology. The text takes a practical approach to the topic, and covers a variety of settings (school, home, community,…

Defining "theorizing" as the activity preliminary to theory completion, this author explains three kinds of curriculum theorizing--structural, generic, and substantive--and sketches the implications of each for practice. (JM)

Briefly reviews the syndrome in which medical students begin to take on the symptoms of their patients. Discovers that, although studying psychological disorders decreased students' anxiety about their own mental health, it increased their concern regarding family members. These students also are more likely to seek psychological treatment. (MJP)

Founded (October of 1973) to activate direct parental participation in the education of Navajo children, the Navajo Area School Board Association (NASBA) describes its goals in this document as follows: to set meaningful and reliable standards for Navajo education and to cause the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and educational contractors to meet…

This book is written for the student who is considering a career as a teacher or in an education-related occupation. It suggests ways to explore the life of a teacher and to gather first-hand observations of public and private school employment. It examines the job possibilities available in the light of the dwindling demand for teachers. It also…

Seven fundamental developmental needs in the culture and in child development are seen as sustaining career education goals, with career education programs helping each student meet them: (1) mastering requirements for physical wellbeing; (2) understanding physical and emotional changes; (3) accepting the self; (4) accepting, understanding, and…