Results suggest that infants' errors in searching for a visible object reflect lapses of attention rather than systematic misunderstandings of objects or space and so are not incompatible with an information-processing account of early search. (Author/RH)

Educating for personal knowing requires an approach to learning that is based in direct sensory experience. Creative art activity nurtures the development of vital sensory experience at every stage of the life cycle. Through imagination, sensory experience is transformed into self-knowledge and conceptual thought; together they illuminate the…

A critical pedagogy provides a framework which allows teachers and students to think critically about the realities of their world. If educators take seriously the notion of critical literacy, they must challenge the assumptions of the dominant educational rationality which serves the status quo. (GC)

The author examines the nature and purpose of education, and the relationship between education and crime and education and criminals. He poses two questions: Is there something about our way of educating that is conducive to criminality? and How can education be a means of helping restore the criminal to a useful and productive place in society?…

Reports on two treatment studies of special education students markedly helpless with regard to arithmetic: one comparing attribution retraining treatment to control treatment matched to it in schedule of successes and failures; the other comparing effects of three success-failure schedules on attributions and persistence. (Author/NRB)

Assessed the prevalence of severe childhood depression, and variables associated with the theoretical construct. Collected peer nominations, self-ratings, and teacher observations for 3,020 children and interviewed 508 of their mothers. Depression rate based on peer nominations was 5.2 percent. Eighteen of 38 hypothesized variables correlated with…

Discusses the growth rate of marriage and family therapy education, and the increase in the use of marital and family therapy rather than traditional approaches by practitioners and consumers of mental health services. Theoretical and clinical training in these areas are discussed. (CT)

Investigated effects of clients' initial self-presentations on counselors' impressions. Clients expressing personal attributions were viewed as more motivated and attractive than clients making situational attributions. When the reason for seeking help was intrinsic, subjects perceived clients to be more motivated and as having a better prognosis…

Analyzes 31 studies of size-performance relationships in organizational structures. Results show that organizational size and productivity are positively related to each other in contrast to review findings to date. Includes extensive references. (MD)

Traces emergence and development of research in library science; argues that prevailing ideology posits desirability of adoption of a positivist epistemology for research in the field; and proposes drawing of work in critical theory and hermeneutics, to rethink the epistemological foundations of research in library and information science. (38…

Assesses William Rainey Harper's role in the junior college movement, covering his founding of junior colleges, his plan for educational excellence, and the impact of his ideas on curriculum reform. Sees Harper's major legacy in the distinction he clarified between the curricular organization of community colleges and liberal arts colleges. (AYC)

Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of adolescent males from public schools, juvenile courts, and correctional facilities confirmed the school failure theory, the susceptibility theory, and the differential treatment theory--theories positing a causal relationship between learning disability and juvenile delinquency. Remedial instruction…

Applied Schmidt-Hunter interactive validity generalization procedure to validity data for cognitive abilities tests for law enforcement occupations. Results indicated apparently lower validities and lesser generalizability for job criteria possibly due to low validity of the criterion and potential role of noncognitive factors. (Author/ABB)

Notes the continuing shortcomings of reading research, in spite of the best efforts of many able persons. Theorizes on the reasons for these failures. (FL)

Describes the "Strategies for Writing" course for freshmen at Carnegie-Mellon University, which possesses the twin goals of stimulating students' enthusiasm and giving them quality instruction. Notes that this course has proved more effective than traditional composition or literature based writing courses, and discusses the reasons why.…