Measures of creativity, openness to experience, and sensation seeking were intercorrelated among female (N=51) and male (N=49) college students. Male creativity correlated most strongly with openness to theoretical and aesthetic experiences and creative thoughts. For females, creativity, openness to inner experiences, and sensation seeking were…

Institutional research too often neglects essential self-study of the educational process. (Editor)

Proposes a heuristic that can be used specifically for expressive writing in which students define or discover their personal identity and express themselves. (FL)

Gallaudet University's newly appointed president who deferred to student demands for a deaf executive views that moment in history as unique and revolutionary, marking the students' emerging need to be recognized as able and powerful, while regretting the damage done to academic freedom and integrity. (MSE)

A model for incorporating feminism in nursing education has four elements: facilitator readiness to teach and learn, participant readiness to learn, feminist content, and feminist teaching methods. Combining feminist scholarship and nursing theory leads to experiential teaching, connected classroom environments, and personal growth. (SK)

Explores the influence of deity images upon the individuation of 27 women taking a university course, "Women and Mythology." Discusses the concept of individuation and three teaching strategies that appear to foster individuation. Presents case studies of three women in a higher education setting to illustrate the conceptualization of…

Provides a step-by-step guide for peer appraisal that has been used successfully in higher education. Although designed principally for self-development purposes, this process could also be used for institutional purposes such as promotion and grant applications if each stage is documented and justified. (LRW)

The student experience involves displacement of the self into an epistemological framework, beginning a trajectory that can either rise with increased confidence, or fall with diminished interest. The learner becomes a new, authentic self through the process of becoming a student. (SK)

Innovative educational practice reveals the secrets to enabling complex learning and self-authorship.

How do people know what gender they are? An action or physical characteristic becomes meaningful only when interpreted through its cultural framework. The difference between male and female communication styles has recently engaged national attention, and the frameworks that men and women use to understand the world have been observed by scholars.…

The correlations between the Personal Orientation Inventory and Inventory of Temporal Experiences are investigated. The interpretations of these findings are made in light of the theories which postulate a convergence between time, self actualization and creativity. (Author/DEP)

ISP (Individualized Self-Pacing) is a program in operation in the business division at Fullerton College, (California), which allows not only for individualized instruction and self-pacing progress but free entry at any time during the semester. (Author)

Numerous areas associated with brain dominance have been researched since Bogen and Sperry's work with split-brain patients in the 1960s, but only slight attention has been given to the connection between brain dominance and personality. No study appears in the literature seeking to understand optimal mental health as defined by Maslow's…

Discusses an essay assailing the new pluralistic consciousness as a danger to individuality and personal autonomy. (Editor)

Liberal arts colleges, with an emphasis on development of the whole person and on freedom of the mind and spirit, provide a significant link with the traditions of democracy. (Author/KE)