This self-reflexive personal narrative charts the autoethnographic journey of an adult educator, exploring her own practices, values and beliefs about teaching. Drawing upon postmodern scholarship in reflexive literary methodologies, the author uses personal memoirs as a research text for engaging in a process of interpretation and…

This study provides a quantitative approach to analyzing college students' levels of self-actualization. Specifically, it addresses the distinction between students from non-rural and rural hometowns relative to their level of self-actualization. Students from five public state schools, in one Midwestern state, were surveyed. Self-actualization…

This paper argues that the modern curriculum of academic subject disciplines embodies a rationalist conception of pure, universal knowledge that does little to cultivate, humanise or form the self. A liberal education in the classical humanist tradition, by contrast, develops a personal culture or "paideia", an understanding of the self as a…

Purpose: Previous studies (e.g., G. Wulf, M. HoB, & W. Prinz, 1998; G. Wulf, B. Lauterbach, & T. Toole, 1999; for a review, see G. Wulf & W. Prinz, 2001) have reported that limb motor performance is enhanced when individuals adopt an external focus (focusing on the effect of the movement) versus an internal focus of attention (focusing on body…

This book is written for adults who are interested in learning to manage change constructively. It is designed to be useful as a self-help resource should the learner be working independently. However, it is especially intended to provide a good text for teachers or trainers who are leading credit courses or non-credit workshops on various topics…

This annotated bibliography of material published through 1969 is a compilation and update of shorter reading lists prepared by the Library of the U. S. Civil Service Commission during the previous five years. The publications are listed under the following categories: Identification and Development of Managerial Skills; Career Planning; Improving…

Based on Kolb's cycle of problem solving, a case study of self-development as a basis for individual employee training in the Housing Corporation, London, is described. (SK)

The self-actualization needs of the gifted student are not being met in today's schools. Available from: Department of Special Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608. (IM)

There is relatively little theory on how psychotherapy clients self-heal since most theories of therapy stress the magic of the therapist's interventions. Of the theories that exist, this paper briefly discusses Carl Rogers' theory of self-actualization; and the dialectical theories of Greenberg and his colleagues, Jenkins, and Rychlak. Gendlin's…

The study focused on exploration of a possible relationship between psychological health (as measured by level of self-actualization) and the actual style involved in decision making. Two separate decision styles used by study group members indicated more attention should be paid to the effects of decision making on the individuals involved.…

The author gives a narrative account of what Sartre says in La Transcendance de l'Ego,'' providing limited criticism along the way, thus examining the cornerstone of Sartre's theory. (Author/BY)

The functional interrelationships of action and solitude as applied to Nietzsche's ideal of the self-surpassing man are discussed. (DB)