This chapter presents the need for the journey of self-authorship and an overview of key concepts and terms explored in this volume.

Institutional and programmatic effectiveness in promoting self-authorship requires an understanding of how to assess self-authorship. (Contains 2 tables.)

Reflections on being childlike. (IRT)

The importance of property in man's life is discussed. (DB)

Educators need to seriously reflect upon the concept of children's rights. Though the idea of children's rights has been debated numerous times, the idea remains vague and shapeless; however, Maslow's theory of self-actualization can provide the children's rights idea with a needed theoretical framework. (Author)

Presents previously unpublished paper written by Abraham Maslow, written in November 1966, in which Maslow confronts the issue why so few people are truly self-actualizing. Discusses the Jonah Complex, the willful evasion of personal capacity for growth and accomplishment in life. (Author/ABL)

Although many adults take up or return to instrumental and vocal tuition every year, we know very little about how they experience it. As part of ongoing case study research, eight older learners with modest keyboard skills explored what their musical skills meant to them during conversation-based repertory grid interviews. The data were…

The topic of an optimal or utopian life has received much attention across the humanities and the arts but not in psychology. The German concept of Sehnsucht captures individual and collective thoughts and feelings about one's optimal or utopian life. Sehnsucht (life longings; LLs) is defined as an intense desire for alternative states and…

In this paper, we consider how the life story develops through the creation of self-event connections in narrating experiences. We first outline the ways in which such connections have been implied by existing work on the life story, and then consider the varieties of such connections that we see in our own work. That work suggests that self-event…

This article is a sequel to previous "Journal of Correctional Education" articles providing teaching strategy suggestions for correctional educators. The self actualized correctional educator employs teaching strategies which do not rely on the correctional institution for implementation. Thus, he/she is freed from bureaucratic and custody issues,…

This chapter explores how incorporating the possible selves construct within a supportive and challenging mentoring relationship can assist in personal and professional growth. (Contains 1 figure.)

The individual perceives himself and the world around him in terms of poles, or polarity. The authors define polarity and the different type of pole discriminations that people make. (MS)

Identifies common threads in lives of those who escape ghetto. (Editor)

Investigates the value orientations of optimists and pessimists and the value structures of each group with university students in Ankara, Turkey (N=285). Results indicate differences in value orientations of optimists and pessimists. Examination of value structures revealed that optimists were more likely to give priority to self-expansion,…