Showing papers on "Professional development published in 1970"

Urban Education: Its Challenge to the Research Community

Abstract: The program is designed to permit students to integrate their particular curricular areas of interest and specialization with a broader field of education, including urban education. Each specialization, with the exception of Multicultural Studies, is departmentally focused, and students must satisfy the admissions and curriculum requirements indicated for their particular specialization. Recognition of the specialization is acknowledged by official designation on the student’s transcript.

Teacher-Centered Management Style of Public School Principals and Job Satisfaction of Teachers.

Abstract: Chung, Ki-Suck Teacher-Centered Management Style of Public School Principals and Job Satisfaction of Teachers. 6 Mar 70 24p.; Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2-6, 1P70) EDFS Price ME-i0.25 HC-$1.30 *Job Satisfaction., *Leadersnip Styles, *Management, Organization, Participant Involvement, *Principals, Professional Fecognition, Public Schools, Social Systems, *Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Supervision A concept of teacher-centered management was proposed as a style of leadership behavior for school administrators to reduce the incompatibility between social/psychological needs of teachers and monocratic/bureaucratic management patterns in educational organizations. Data obtained from self-report questionnaires distributed to teachers in 21 public schools in southeastern Michigan demonstrated that a high teacher-centered management style of leadership behavior by public school principals--as perceived by teachers--and high job satisfaction of teachers are significantly related. Teacher-centered administrative management style is characterized by teachers as (1) much sharing in decision making, (2) less close teacher supervision, (3) high administrative support of teachers' professional growth, (4) strong personal relationships, and (5) accessiDie relationships. The concept is supported as a useful approach to improving interpersonal relationships in educational organizations. (Author)

Achievement in Dental School as Related to Personality and Aptitude Variables

Abstract: Attempts to predict performance in dental school from individual scales of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) have yielded equivocal results. A search for combinations and clusters of sca...

The Humanities in Preparing Educational Administrators.

Abstract: EDRS Price MF-$0.0 HC-$3.35 Bibliographies, *Educational Administration, Humanities, *Humanities Instruction, Liberal Arts, *Literature Reviews, Prediction, *Professional Training, Program Evaluation Three major rationales characterize the literature dealing with the use of humanities instruction in preparing educational administrators. These rationales focus on (1) the general liberalization of the administrator, (2) the values and purpose-defining skills of the administrator, and (3) the creative and analytical skills of the administrator. Although most of the literature advocates inclusion of the humanities in educational administrator training programs, few such programs exist. Among existing programs, four of which ar? described in detail, the emphasis appears to be on the values approach. Most of the implementation problems inherent in these humanities programs have been resolved, but finance and evaluation remain particularly troublesome. A 56-item bibliography of related literature is

Book Review: IV. Pastoral—Practical Studies: Professional Education for Ministry: A History of Clinical Pastoral EducationProfessional Education for Ministry: A History of Clinical Pastoral Education, by ThorntonEdward E., New York: Abingdon Press, 1970. 301 pp. $7.50.

Abstract: Occasionally, a book is written that manages to present the issues of a complex problem in a readable and succinct way. This is such a book. It deals with the issues involved in thinking about Christian participation in war. This is not, however, a systematic presentation ofone particular approach or answer to the problem, but an attempt to analyze the issues involved so as to enable any Christian to think more searchingly about the moral dilemmas posed by war. The particular context of Long's discussion, of course, is the debate about the war in Vietnam. As such, the questions posed to young men confronting the draft and the war are presented in ways that lead to a better understanding of their reluctance to participate in such a war.

Significant Unsolved Problems in Reading.

Abstract: ican life during the past decade. The public faith in schools has been shaken by the number of illiterate adults who fail to qualify for employment. As a result, special programs have been set up outside schools in industries, the job corps, over television, in churches and libraries. Many people interpret these programs as a direct criticism of schools for their failure to teach every child to read.

Multivariate analysis of attitudes and personality characteristics among 60 youthful offenders.

Abstract: Summary.-40 youthful offenders scaled 21 concepts with 12 bipolar adjectives of the semantic differential. The scaled concepts were clustered in semantic space by a multidimensional interrelational affective technique. Interpretation of the relationships of the conceprs was based on the distance function of the evaluation and potency dimensions. "Death," "black," "police," and "girl" were observed with the highest D3 function and were the most intensely stimulating affective concepts. A canonical correlational analysis was applied to the semantic factor scores of each concept and scores on the High School Personality Questionnaire. Measures of personality did not appear in the same system of relationships with any one of the 21 concepts. The realization that the punitive effects of incarceration are not, in most cases, a deterent to crime is evident in the legislation of recent years which emphasizes rehabilitation. Professional training for all levels of correctional personnel is being stressed by responsible state and federal officials. However, most of the information available on offenders tends to concentrate on their psychopathology which has the effect of isolating them as a clinical entity. There is a dearth of studies which are more positive and concern themselves with understanding the offender in terms of promoting his successful return to society (Porter, 1968). Generally the offender is unlike most populations of rehabilitation clients in that he is younger, stronger, physically healthier, and more aggressive, characteristics which are normally associated with successful rehabilitants (McGowan & Porter, 1967 ) . This study was an attempt to understand the world of the delinquent as he sees it. Otherwise, a base for meaningful communication does not exist. The two major objectives were (1) to determine if a representative sample of juvenile offenders could discriminate among 21 basic attitudes and group them into meaningful patterns and (2) to determine if any personality profile similarities were correlated with these attitudinal patterns. In most institutions for delinquent youth, retention of the individual is by civil court conviction, but the length of treatment and the termination of commitment is determined by the staff of the institution. When the delinquent's behavior has met certain ambiguous criteria that would predict probability of success "in the world," the youthful offender is released from the institution. Although voluminous data are collected on each offender and reports are lengthy, attempts to provide material for accurate decision-making about the youth, an objective measure of attitudinal change, are seldom undertaken. Rentz, White, and Fears (1968) presented some evidence that group rat

Some Personal and Situational Correlates of Reactions to Management Development Training: Reply

Abstract: The article reports the authors' opinions regarding a criticism of their article “Some Personal and Situational Correlates of Reactions to Management Development Training.” The authors' focus on co...

Stepping between different worlds: reflections before, during and after fieldwork

Abstract: Before beginning fieldwork, the anthropology student pictures herself in a totally different dimension: an 'indigenous' world in which she will be immersed for the whole fieldwork period: she does not know the native language, she has no idea of who she will meet or where she will spend most of her time. Then, the 'limbo' state ends and she finds herself suddenly active, even when she does nothing. To be doing fieldwork means to be constantly observed by other people as well as having to observe all around oneself. This paper explores issues I lived through and experienced before, during and after my fieldwork in southern Chile. It is a personal narrative of the contradictions that the fieldworker frequently has to face-especially when doing research in a region that has never been studied by anthropologists before. In it I discuss some of the most confusing episodes that occurred to me during my process of becoming familiar with the host culture. These events illustrate the difficulty of overcoming the 'innocence' typical of the inexperienced fieldworker and the impossibility of stepping outside one's own cultural expectations, despite months of serious professional training. Eventually the experience of fieldwork deeply transforms the fieldworker and her perceptions both of herself and the surrounding world. However, can we cope with the potentially dangerous underpinnings of adopting a different lifestyle for a long period of time? Fieldwork provides us with a chance (with all its emotional implications) to step from one world to another, and the feeling of belonging to both worlds-despite the enormous distance between them.

The Preparation and Professionalization of Economics Instructors in Two-Year Colleges

Abstract: With the rapid growth of two-year colleges and the probability that an increasing proportion of students will get their introductory economics in these institutions comes a natural concern over the quality of instruction found therein. Lewis reviews three surveys dealing with the preparation of junior college teachers of economics, offers explanations for the dearth of well-trained economists in the two-year colleges, and suggests ways of meeting the special needs of junior college teachers. He calls for both pre-service and in-service training programs designed to upgrade the teaching of economics in the two-year colleges.

Marital Status and Occupational Success Among Mental Health Professionals.

Abstract: Focusing on psychotherapists, this paper explores the way in which marital status and a strategic professional experience, receiving personal psychotherapy, interact to affect occupational success among psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in three metropolitan communities. Confining the analysis to male members of these two professions, data are presented to demonstrate that success is strongly related to marriage, but not marital stability. Success is also strongly related to whether or not practitioners have received personal psychotherapy and, more specifically, to the reasons for having therapy. Both the likelihood of having psychotherapy and the extent to which it was undertaken for purposes of professional training varied by marital status. Thus, although stably married practitioners were less likely to undergo personal therapy than practitioners who had experienced marital disruption or never married, if they do receive therapy, it was more likely to be for the purpose of professional training, with the result that the experience had a greater impact on their level of occupational success. The paper concludes that personal relations, professional experiences and occupational success form a network of relationships which integrate the occupational and nonoccupational roles of highly specialized practitioners.