From a life-stage perspective, the purpose of this study was to examine the motivation of female students in midlife to enroll in an undergraduate or graduate program and the meaning they attach to higher education (HE) in general. An additional purpose was to reveal these women's subjective perceptions of the benefits they gained from HE at this…

The findings suggest that Personal Orientation Inventory scores are unlikely to be inflated by the conscious or unconscious attempts of subjects to make a good impression on the inventory when they have little knowledge of the self-actualizing model of man. (Author)

Making self-authorship a goal of an interdisciplinary multisemester general education program shows great promise for meeting desired undergraduate learning outcomes for citizen-learners. (Contains 1 table.)

Many school discipline problems would never occur, says this author, if an individual curriculum were developed for each student which would successfully teach respect, excellence, receptivity, efficiency in learning, critical thinking, accurate observation, and creativity--in short, self-actualization. (Editor)

This study shows that males who had lower levels of self-actualization preferred more structured living arrangements, however the female groups did not differ significantly in their dissatisfaction with living arrangements. (Author/PG)

Technical education can and should help the child develop the idea of himself as an adult. It can help him develop the maturity and competence required to perform useful work in our society and to obtain personal fulfillment experienced in the performance of such work. (DS)

The Ss who were told that the interpretation was derived for them from their psychological tests rated the interpretation as more descriptive of their personalities than Ss told that the interpretation was generally true of people. (Author)

This study investigates the concept of "success" and the various ways contemporary Russian students are endeavouring to achieve and value success. The findings are set in the context of changes in the understanding and achievement of success among students in Russia over the past 30 years. (Contains 1 note and 2 tables.)

Offers strategies in teacher education by giving as much attention to attitudinal characteristics of teachers as is currently given to subject matter and teaching methods. Suggests focusing on teacher of teachers; taking internal frame of reference; selecting supervising teachers carefully; using group processes frequently; conducting integrative…

Undergraduates were divided into four groups: 76 received training and completed the Natural Growth Goals Inventory and Organizational Learning Survey as pre- and posttests; 76 completed the NGGI only; 30 the OLS only; and 75 were trained and completed posttests. Both pretesting and training had a negative or boomerang effect on perceptions of the…

A summary of the growth and development of microcounseling with special reference to teacher training. (Author)

The article discusses a study that determined if selected primary and junior high Indian students' self-confidence was related to grade level and to the number of years enrolled in a particular Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. (KM)

Historical resume of the role of discipline in the educational process. (MF)

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…