An Affective Sexual Awareness Program for Counselors

Most counseling students and counselor educators lack adequate preparation for working with clients who have sexual problems. The authors developed a program to facilitate increased awareness of one's own sexuality as a basis for aiding others in that area. The program emphasizes small group participation in order to provide security to explore sexuality and its effects on interpersonal relationships. The program uses brief videotape vignettes of affective-sexual behaviors of individuals and pairs (heterosexual and same-sexed pairs), followed by group discussion. Interpersonal interaction exercises are used to aid participants in relating to their own sexuality. Overall response to the six presentations reported here has been favorable.     

Critical Issues in Counselor Education: Mentors,Models, and Money

Three issues that affect research in counselor education and supervision are discussed. Mentoring practitioners, methodological diversity, and funding issues are critically examined.     

An Expert System Approach to Curriculum Development in Engineering Education

RÉSUMÉ

This paper focuses on demonstrating the feasibility of applying expert system methodology as a new approach for assisting the development of engineering degree curricula particularly in developing countries. A number of subdomains in which a rule-based system can be applied have been identified in the field of curriculum development. The subdomain developed and presented in this paper concerns methods of identifying curriculum content, and the major subgoal of developing a profile of ‘staff experience’ in this context is investigated in depth. Knowledge in this subdomain has been encapsulated in an expert system which has been refined to the satisfaction of a curriculum expert and tested by potential end-users of the system.

RÉSUMÉ On s'est concentré dans cet article sur une démonstration de la possibilité d'appliquer ks méthodes d'Intelligence Artificelle, au développement des programmes d' études pour la formation des ingénieurs au niveau de licence (surtout dans les pays en voie de developpement). On a identifié, dans le domaine du developpement des programmes d' études, plusieurs sous-domaines auxquels s'appliquerait un systeme d'Intelligence Artificielle à base de régies. Le sous-domaine qu'on presente ici concerne les methodes qu'on se sen pour déterminer le contenu des programmes d' études; en meme temps, un autre but majeur de nos recherches a été d'examiner à fond le profit d'experience du personnel enseignant en ce qui s'agit du développement des programmes d' études. On a encapsulé le savoir dans ce sous-domaine au moyen d'un système d'Intelligence Artificielle qui a ete mis au point à la satisfaction d'un expert en matières de programmes d' études et, qui a été, de plus, vérifié par des représentants de ceux qui, en toute probabilité, se serviront d'un tel système.