A paper presented at Opening General Session of annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 26, 1970); appears also in College English," vol. 32, no. 5 (February 1971), pp. 563-72, and in English Journal," vol. 60, no. 2 (February 1971), pp. 189-98. (Editor/SW)

A paper presented at Opening General Session of annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 26, 1970); appears also in College English," vol. 32, no. 5 (February 1971), pp. 563-72, and in Elementary English," vol. 48, no. 4 (April 1971), pp. 170-78. (Editor/SW)

A paper presented at Opening General Session of annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 26, 1970); appears also in English Journal," vol. 60, no. 2 (February 1971), pp. 189-98, and in Elementary English," vol. 48, no. 4 (April 1971), pp. 170-78. (Editor/SW)

The inaugural address of the president of the National Council of Teachers of English, delivered at annual convention of NCTE (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (SW)

The inaugural address of the President of the National Council of Teachers of English presented at annual convention of NCTE (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969); appears also in "Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 4 (April 1970), 467-74. (SW)

Modern disillusionment with rationalistic and mechanistic creeds increases the relevance of the thought of Giambattista Vico, an eighteenth century thinker. Vico's "New Science" dealt with the origins of human consciousness and society, and with the development of human nature, knowledge, and institutions in ways that anticipate modern…

A long-term, phased class project in which groups of students planned, created, and taped a multiple-episode soap opera/travelog is described as an example of the potential for using students' creativity more fully. Students created a central character, itinerary, and script using the unusual or exotic throughout. (MSE)

Proposes the iii system as a theory to clarify how creative drama works. Explains how participants in an arts experience go through an internal process (iii system) of image, imagery, and imagination. Notes that those who experience the richest, most varied drama activity seem to complete this process. (PD)

Aspects of daydreaming and associated mental activity were examined for sex differences in well-educated middle class Whites aged 17 to 92 years. Females reported daydreams of a problem solving nature, and lower levels of daydreams of a sexual, bizarre-improbable, heroic and achievement-oriented nature. Daydreaming contents decreased with age.…

Techniques that can be used to make the lecture method of teaching more effective include using pictures or objects to facilitate memory, using guided fantasies to stimulate students' imagination of processes, and the suggestopedia method for memorizing facts, principles, and vocabulary. (MSE)

Outdoor education facilitates the use of both cerebral hemispheres. The right side, which is often ignored in traditional education, is the location of intuitive, imaginative, and metaphoric thinking and can be used in conjunction with the left side, the base of logical and analytic thought. (CJ)

Suggests that the twin roles of self-exploration through writing and the development of public discourse may be viewed in terms of three stages of the composing process. (DD)