Looks at typical concerns, issues, and activities that confront adult education consultants such as establishing clarity on the roles and responsibilities of a consultant, establishing one's personal identity as a consultant, and the need for flexibility. (JOW)

Suggests that adult education consultants must develop professional relationships with colleagues, know about available resources, and have a supportive network. Outlines ways in which consultants can gain access to and maximize use of resources. (Author)

Details the role of technology in facilitating and nurturing the connections necessary to the establishment and maintenance of a consultant practice. (Author)

Discusses issues relevant to developing a consulting business while employed in a full-time academic position and examines how split work responsibilities can nurture professional passion and entrepreneurial spirit and, at the same time, connect to practice. (Author)

Describes the reality of a full-time consultant who works in both the nonprofit and commercial worlds. Suggests that the best of full-time consulting is the variety and the worst is the total lack of security. (JOW)

A consultant who works primarily with women focuses on the promotion of personal change through the use of group processes and collaborative learning reflects on her role as an adult education consultant. (JOW)

Organizational change depends on linking positive relationships to form learning communities that promote the change effort and seek to overcome the obstacles. The consultant serves as a catalyst in the process of linking the relationships through formal and informal strategies. The consultant involves the learners in the task of designing their…

Outlines the nature of the learning organization and describes how action technologies can be used to build learning organizations. Outlines the strategies and dilemmas of consultants who use this approach to build learning organizations. (Author)

Offers strategies in teacher education by giving as much attention to attitudinal characteristics of teachers as is currently given to subject matter and teaching methods. Suggests focusing on teacher of teachers; taking internal frame of reference; selecting supervising teachers carefully; using group processes frequently; conducting integrative…

Notes that preliminary results from ongoing research into school restructuring suggest that certain elements are necessary to facilitate empowerment. Discusses how counselors can use these findings to become effective participants, helping schools become more empowering. Sees set of essential attitudes, decision-making process, and set of…

Contends that ecological approach can turn the current educational and social problems into possibilities and place the first truly human being on the planet Earth by the year 2000 and that parents, educators, counselors, policymakers, business leaders, and others informed about an ecological approach and committed to the necessary social…

Examined child study process, model for collaboration among teachers, counselors, and other school professionals focused on individual children and their needs. Experienced elementary teachers reported increased professional expertise and personal satisfaction after participating in school-year-long child study seminar focusing on child from each…

Examined effectiveness of 14-week program to build self-esteem with at-risk ninth-grade students by comparing participants (n=35) to no-treatment controls (n=33). Concluded that program, based on concepts of rational emotive therapy, was effective in improving self-concept, self-management, and academic achievement. (Author/NB)

Offers statements about elementary students' own learning styles, learning environmental characteristics they desire, and qualities in adults they consider supportive of their learning. Statements are selections from over 700 comments from students in 7 schools who completed following sentences: "The adults at school that help me the most are the…

Reviewed 65 reports, dated 1986 through 1990, focusing on college student alcohol consumption patterns. Review shows that shortcomings in research design, analysis, and presentation of results make it difficult to draw conclusions regarding the present nature and problem of college student drinking. (Author/NB)