Describes by vignette and analysis four primary instructional tasks necessary to develop inquiry skills in children. Such tasks are shown to be fundamental to the inviting classroom and to experimental science. Claims that inviting inquiry requires a tolerance of error, supportive environments that nurture intellects, and participation that…

Compares counseling to the choreography of dance. Reviews other counseling structures, such as the scientific process, and then introduces the "choreography of counseling." Claims that counseling, as in a dance performance, involves an introduction, exploration, exposition, and resolution. Offers principles and techniques for success in each of…

Argues that schools need to intensify efforts to offer values instruction since current efforts portend failure. Examines the historical roots of values education, profiles the social context of values problems, critiques approaches to values, describes ways to unify the advocates of values education, and discusses the current public demand for…

Examines intentional invitations that challenge, confront, exhort, and persuade people to change their behaviors. Assumes that the sender controls the "intention" and that the receiver determines the degree of "inviting." Suggests that elements of the invitational model serve as a framework to create acceptable inducements in the helping process.…

Argues that, since the presence of invitational practices in the physical arena can be measured, such strategies should be introduced into middle school athletics. Examines coaches' potential to extend inviting concepts to student participants, the legacy of traditional athletics, and the agents of influence in middle school athletics. (RJM)

Reports findings, based on a two-year study, of a collaborative effort to develop a learning-centered curriculum which would result in an inviting learning-centered classroom community. Supports the tenet that effective programs feature knowledgeable teachers who have the expertise and inclination to encourage all children to succeed. (RJM)

Drawing on the autobiographies of school principals, proposes guidelines that can help educators combat the occupational hazard of excessive stress. Each guideline is illustrated by vignettes from educational leaders who have learned how to avoid some thinking fallacies that could erode self-esteem and leadership effectiveness. (RJM)

Examines the use of identification badges as an invitational approach to create schools without fear. High Schools were contacted which use identification badges for students, teachers, administration, staff, and visitors. Use of the badges was reported to be an effective and inviting measure within each of the three schools. (RJM)

Describes invitational education and its person-centered approach. Explores the framework of invitational education, its four elements (trust, respect, intentionality, optimism), the perceptual tradition and self-concept theory, and other elements of invitational education. Suggests that invitational education's democratic tenets should be applied…

Introduces invitational theory, collection of assumptions that seek to explain phenomena and provide means of intentionally summoning people to realize their relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. Describes foundations of invitational theory; assumptions regarding trust, respect, optimism, and intentionality;…

Reviews history of International Alliance for Invitational Education, beginning in 1968 when two professors at University of Florida began to offer summer workshops for teachers, principals, and school board members. Includes chronology chart of events in development of Alliance from 1971 through 1992 when Alliance published its first annual…

Notes that invitational theory presents the concept of invitations as related to five factors: people, places, policies, programs, and processes. Proposes addition of a sixth "P," politics. Assumption is made that, without addressing the political aspects of schools and school systems, success of the invitational model with the other five…

Examined whether significant relationship exists between inviting characteristics of teachers and effectiveness of these teachers as rated by their principals. Findings on 235 teachers revealed that certain attitudes that parallel concept of "inviting" teacher behaviors seem to correlate with effective teacher performance as measured by school…

Presents existence of universal invitations and their relationship to perceptual processes in expanded view of how invitational levels of functioning (Intentionally Disinviting, Unintentionally Disinviting, Unintentionally Inviting, and Intentionally Inviting) are determined. Suggests that particulars, individual's temporal and spatial…

Presents bibliography of published works and research papers compiled for individuals interested in invitational theory. Entries in the bibliography further elucidate major underlying concepts and assumptions of invitational theory and seek to expand and refine concepts and assumptions. Most entries describe applications of the model. Bibliography…