This document indicates the practices and goals needed in educational programs in order to create more humanistic teachers. To illustrate the content and methods of more humanistic teacher education, four areas are discussed: a) the development of knowledge and skill in characteristically human ways of knowledge acquisition and means of…

The classroom teacher often does not receive necessary positive reinforcement, which tends to lead to low self-esteem. Tips for helping the teacher become more self-aware and more self-confident are offered. (DF)

A validity study is conducted of the Self-Consciousness Scale components with male undergraduates. The components, Private and Public Self Consciousness and Social Anxiety did not correlate with any other measures used to establish their validity and thus seem to be independent of other measures tested. (Author/DEP)

This report examines factors that influence potential high-school principal candidates' attraction to a high-school principalship. The research focuses on the perspective of potential candidates' evaluation of specific job and organizational attributes. Using job-choice theory as a conceptual framework, the article discusses which attributes have…

A survey of 160 randomly selected teachers in the primary and junior divisions of four school jurisdictions in eastern Ontario showed a significant difference between teachers defined as inner-directed and those identified as outer-directed in terms of their acceptance of ideas and principles outlined in the Ontario guidelines. (Author/WD)

Investigates self-destructive behavior in terms of interpersonal strategies of manipulation. Males and females anticipating sudden violent death (SVD) showed higher needs for control while SVD males demonstrated impaired competency in the expression of affectional needs. Inability to express affection may lead to perceptions of the self as…

Three adolescent male patients with major congenital anomalies are described as to their self concept and body images. The results of the study reveal the need for an emphasis on therapy for these children to be able to develop into sound adults able to cope with stress. (Author/DEP)

The Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) program is a health education curriculum for adolescents. Each THTM module frames an adolescent health task emphasizing development of self-assessment, communication, decision making, health advocacy, and self-management. The major goals of this module are to promote feelings of self-acceptance in…

Undergraduate students who wished to enter sensitivity groups filled in Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory and also indicated their degree of loneliness. Ss low in loneliness obtained higher scores on the personality scale, with eight of the 12 subscales significantly different from Ss high in loneliness. (Author)

The definition of self-concept used here is "the person's view of himself," which is bound to the person's transactions with significant others in his environment. The two sources of data about the self-concept are the subject and the observer, each with his own biases. In inventories and checklists, Ss are limited to the statement given them. In…

Suggests that for each of the role-related identities of an individual, there are physical dimensions and characteristics that help to define and are subsumed by that identity. Argues that it is important to conceptualize place-identity as a specific component of each individual's self-identity. (Author/MA)

The author postulates that much worker dissatisfaction is due to lack of job responsiveness to ego and self-actualization needs. He suggests that one remedy is provision of more challenging work by industry. (HLM)

Author speaks of the necessity for skilled guidance on the part of teacher and parents but that creative activities do not take place in an atmosphere of insecurity or fear or anxiety. (Author/MB)