The first edition of this indispensable book set the standard for high-quality intervention and prevention programs in early childhood practice. Since its publication, many new forces have impacted the landscape of early childhood education, presenting both great opportunities and great risks for today's emotionally fragile young children. Once…

Discusses how individuals keep a canon of poetry within their subconscious and how it functions to ward off the encroaching loneliness or despair Robert Frost referred to as "Desert Places." (HTH)

Results indicate there are a number of patterns of interaction roommates can work out and which they report to be satisfying and some involve little interaction. Other findings are cited. (Author/EK)

Presents tips from a high school classroom teacher on helping students work out personal problems which are hindering their school performance. One way of helping students is to encourage them to write down problems in a journal and discuss the problems with them personally. (DB)

Humanistic education is a systematic, conscious attempt to put into practice the best we know about the nature of human beings and how they learn. Humanistic education maintains that what students experience about themselves and their world is far too important for education to overlook. (Author/IRT)

Results of this study reveal that personal and social needs are as strongly felt as are career or academic needs when self-reported by undergraduate college students. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that "need for approval" is a significant motivational variable in college student volunteers and is significantly related to volunteer success among female volunteers. Implications for planning rehabilitation volunteer recruitment programs are discussed. (Author)

This brief article stresses that the search for omnibus social and emotional needs that cut across all gifted children is misguided and that differences in needs are likely a function of the relationship between the individual child's talents and social interactions within the communities of the child's world. (DB)

Teachers often have difficulty responding to emotionally upset children in ways that help the students solve their problems. Examples of commonly used "put-downs and put-offs" and suggested techniques that teachers can use to lend emotional support are offered. (DF)

To understand urban Native American students more fully, teachers must grasp the contrast between rural/reservation living and urban life (generally more hostile) for these students and their families. Teachers should determine students' home language and their degree of facility in school English. Teachers should also recognize Native American…

Discusses the importance of children feeling secure in child care centers. Describes ways in which the people, setting, routine, and ritual of child care centers affect a child's sense of security. (RJC)

Role-plays and other dramatic activities fulfill tweens' urge to try out different life roles, to explore the world beyond their own reality, and to learn new areas of competence. Wilhelm's research into reading and motivation has shown that students value learning that they can see as immediately meaningful. He argues that drama strategies bring…

Special education teachers were surveyed to determine the social and emotional goals they had for their students with identified disabilities who were educated in the general education classroom for at least 80% of the school day. Seventy special educators reported on the assessment techniques they used to identify students' social and emotional…

Discusses the change in educators' attitudes and the educational system as a whole which must occur and which has been partially implemented by the 1973 decree. (DD)