To test propositions about relations between career development and identify formation, measures of ego identity status, exploratory activity, and occupational commitment were administered to 99 college students. Canonical analyses of data suggest that the exploration and commitment processes in the identity formation and career development…

A faculty member at Amherst discusses the challenges that have shaken his "self-edifice." He says there was strain "in the scrambling, adjusting, re-doing, remodeling of the mind, and in the constant collisions with past fatuity and obliviousness." Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is recommended. (MLW)

Randomly assigned 41 students to 2 twice-weekly groups, which met for 3 hours eight times; 2 marathons, which met continuously for 24 hours; and nontreatment control group. Treatment groups had significant positive changes on 14 of 15 measured personality variables between pre- and post-test, and positive change on all dependent measures between…

The effects of external rewards on measures of performance and subsequent interest in a learning task are examined in this literature review and synthesis. Implications for teacher education are discussed. (IAH)

Contends that Foucaultian analysis of universities as disciplinary blocks points to ways that students are disciplined by technologies of domination and of the self (practices adopted to be "good" students). Maintains that because power relations are only present between "acting subjects," possibilities for resistance against…

Reviews some of the more prevalent metaphors used to describe the nature and character of the self. Contends that counselors have theories about the self, whether implicit or explicit, and that these theories directly influence their practice. Poses various ethical questions associated with different metaphors of the self. (JPS)

Challenges to become what you want to be permeate higher education recruitment literature, inviting students to realize their dreams. Students do not interpret this invitation only in vocational terms. Other aspects of meaning for being and becoming are important for them: self-realization, and becoming who as well as what they want to be. A…

Three studies were conducted to determine if goal striving level was related to accurate self-knowledge. The purpose of the research was to determine if the tendency of high strivers to confront stressful stimuli extends to self-evaluation processes. Three experiments were designed to investigate whether high strivers differ from low strivers in…

Through the narratives of North American slaves a vivid picture of their lives, struggles, hopes, and aspirations emerges. The slave narrative arose as a response to, and a refutation of, claims that blacks could not write. Slave writings were often direct extensions of speech. Through a process of imitation and repetition, the black slave's…

The University of San Francisco Masters in Business Administration program called VITA (Values, Information and Techniques for Actualization) is described as a "line of continuity" running through the 30-unit curriculum, which is made up of several courses dealing with broad value systems and specific attitude and belief systems that…

This research captures some of the complexity of cultural adjustments such as race relations, cultural misunderstandings, and integration, through an examination of the thoughts and feelings of Maori University graduates in New Zealand. (Author/DE)

Advocates the creation of a synergistic mind system by educating people to use, understand, and appreciate both hemispheres of the brain. (IRT)

If curricular change to meet student needs were to produce a community focus on central problems of human development, it could serve to transform an institution into one better prepared to serve societal and institutional needs. (Author/KE)

Colleges are in a leadership position. How they conduct themselves can ignite educational advancements that benefit society. To date they have taught about the merits of open education. Now they are called on to put into practice the very innovations they have espoused. (Author)

Reasons for leaving the profession of medical technology were determined through a survey of 83 technologists' attitudes and demographic characteristics. Information was obtained on the age of respondents, year of certification, number of years experience as a medical technologist, and number of years as a member of the American Society for…