M.C. Wittrock,a Giant of Educational Psychology

This is the introduction to a set of articles honoring the life and contributions of Merlin C. Wittrock. Wittrock's classic article, “Learning as a Generative Process,” originally published in the pages of Educational Psychologist in 1974, is reprinted, followed by comments from colleagues, friends, former students, and others on Professor Wittrock's lasting legacy.     

P. C. Wren'sBeau Geste

Ronald Stuart Thomas was born in Caerdydd (Cardiff) in 1913 but was brought up in Caergybi (Holyhead), where he attended the local secondary school. He graduated from the University of Wales at Bangor and then proceeded to St. Michael's Theological College, Llandâf, to train as an ordinand. He was ordained priest in the Anglican Church in Wales in 1937 and retired in 1978 to a cottage on the Lln peninsula, where he still lives. His first books of verse were published privately, but in 1955 a collection called Song at the Year's Turningwas published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London. Since then he has published some eighteen books of poetry in English and also a couple of prose works in Welsh, with another of the latter due out in 1990. The editors of Children's Literature in Educationinvited Mr. Thomas to contribute to our series in which eminent writers recall a favorite book of childhood. We were delighted when he chose to write about P.C. Wren's Beau Geste. P.C. Wren was born in Devon in 1885. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the French and Indian armies and subsequently in the French Foreign Legion. He drew on this experience in several best-sellers, of which the most popular was the subject of this article, Beau Geste.Wren died in 1941.     

周恩来与首届人民政协

中国人民政治协商会议是我国统一战线长期发展的必然产物。周恩来十分重视发挥人民政协组织的民主协商作用。从1948年8月到1949年3月,在周恩来精心安排下,各地民主人士分多批安全抵达解放区并先后汇集到解放后的北平,使筹备和召开新政协成为现实。此后.周恩来负责主持新政协筹备会议。他为首届人民政协的筹备和召开呕心沥血,建立了不朽的业绩。     

浅谈中国共产党人的政治本色

谦虚谨慎，戒骄戒躁，自国更生，艰苦奋斗，是中国共产党的政治本色。中国共产党历来重视这一政治本色的传承，毛泽东、毛泽东、江泽民等党的领导同志都是传承这一政治本色的理论大师和实践典范。在深入学习宣传贯彻《中共中央关于加强和改进党的作风建设的决定》的今天，完整准确地理解和展示党的这一政治本色，对于加强和改进党的作风建设具有十分重要的意义。     

THE COUNTY Y. M. C. A.

Motherhood is a complex experience that can be transformative, offering women opportunities for personal enrichment and spiritual development. Because the largest incidence of births occurs to women in the Millennial or late Generation X generations, this complex, potentially transformative experience occurs at a critical time in young adult women's identity development, making it both the content and context of their quest to live a meaningful and integrated life. A richly re-imagined religious education can fashion a context in which young adult women might perceive their experiences of motherhood as an invitation to spiritual growth.