One hundred twenty children, aged 4-1/2 to 11 years, were asked to draw pictures of their classrooms and were later interviewed. Results showed the drawings were indicative of the children's particular social understanding of the teacher in school. (SE)

This article documents an attempt to treat severe social incompetence of selected male college students through the use of behavioral rehearsal and social learning approaches, designed to curtail social anxiety. (MB)

The Follower Maturity Index (FMI) is an instrument derived from leadership theory and based on observations of verbal and nonverbal behavior of followers in task groups. Dimensions of follower maturity--achievement, responsibility, experience, activity, dependence, variety, interests, perspective, position, and awareness--are discussed. For…

Educators are entitled to exercise control over student expression to assure that participants learn whatever lessons the activity is designed to teach, that readers are not exposed to material inappropriate for their level of maturity, and that the views of the individual are not erroneously attributed to the school. (MLW)

Discusses the question of the influence of mass media and interpersonal communication on the growth of partisan independence among American preadults and concludes that preadults become increasingly independent as they get older. (DF)

Undeclared majors, like declared majors, are at various levels of maturity, and the development and implementation of advising strategies must incorporate these levels and the students' perspective. An integrated model of college student development applied to the undeclared major is presented. (Author/MLW)

Examines four somewhat arbitrary and overlapping themes from the literature in adult and teacher development: life span development, stage development, career development, and teacher development. (HOD)

Piaget's model of intellectual maturity was used to examine young people's perspectives on foreign policy. Results indicate that cognitive maturity is positively associated with the ability to make deliberative policy judgments. Young Americans exhibit relatively low levels of political impulsiveness and have a realistic view of foreign policy…

Modern education is examined in the light of John Dewey's theory that moral education is a process of involving singular human beings, living consciously in association with one another, in thinking purposively and intelligently about subject-matter provided by their common, intertwined lives. (JD)

The adolescent personality, adult maturity, competence, and quality of marital relations associated with paternal competence were assessed by a longitudinal study of highly educated fathers. Paternal competence was rated by the fathers and their wives. (MS)

The prevalence of mature students, those aged 25 and over, on a British campus and its implications for the college are discussed. Mature students tend to be conscious to a greater degree than younger ones of certain aspects of being a student. (LBH)

Fifty-four male undergraduates who has benn elected to Phi Beta Kappa were compared with 67 nonPhi Beta Kappas of approximately equal intellectual ability and with an unselected sample of undergraduates, using the California Phychological Inventory. These comparisons furnished the opportunity to interpret the personological correlates of superior…

Discusses the First School, a primary school with an age of either five to eight or five to nine in which student and teacher share in a learning partnership that centres on the child. (Author/RK)

How to identify the learning-disabled child in the classroom and what behaviors are signals is the subject of this article. Suggests steps a teacher should take with a suspected case. (RB)