The document is part of a series that reports the findings and accomplishments of the Models for Career Education in Iowa project which was initiated to research, define, and describe an emerging concept of career education and to suggest possible approaches for implementation in primary and secondary education. One of the basic components in the…

The purpose of this paper is to suggest some ways in which present pressures on institutions and their facilities to be more productive can be more creatively met. The main theme of the paper is that many faculty are ready and able to change their styles of work and are prepared to engage in professional activities of substantially different…

Permanent further education means "that organized learning is extended to cover later stages in life, and that the attitude towards education changes considerably." Further education comprises further vocational training, retraining at other educational establishments, and adult education. It supplements the traditional courses of…

A model educational system is outlined that would modify the present inclination to stereotype learning priorities so that the intuitive, imaginative, and aesthetic impulses of the individual are recognized as valid elements in the learning process. (JD)

Offers data on Catholic schools' inability to win academic competitions. Examines reasons Catholic schools have not emphasized high-level training for gifted and talented students. Contends that ideas such as goal-orientation and self-actualization are appropriate for today's Catholic school. (DMM)

To determine perceptions of self-actualizing behavior as a purpose of higher education, students, professors, and administrators rated 12 self-actualizing behaviors on a 5-point scale from important to unimportant for the university to encourage. Analysis of responses showed the three groups essentially agreed that higher education should develop…

Author intended to illustrate how mathematics could be used as a humanistic enterprise to convey knowledge and attitudes towards the world. (Author/RK)

The acceptance of self-guidance as an educational goal requires a considerable reorientation of thinking with respect to the purpose of education, the content of the school curriculum, and the role of the teacher. (Author)

Describes the domination-submission relationship between professors and students at the graduate level. Stresses the prevalence of transferences, which are "exacerbated by reality factors which infantilize the student and magnify the omnipotence of the teachers. This dependence is not conductive to creativity, maturity, and intellectual…

Points to a need for actualizing the commonly stated goals of a liberal education, which should provide students with the freedom to explore their personal values, learn about themselves, and develop as individuals through studying the accomplishments of others. (WM)

The humanistic, moral, and essentially religious (re-ligare: to tie together) nature of education is examined to answer the questions: What are we educating for? And what kind of community are we trying to create through education? (MJB)

This article describes the practice of asking students in a foreign language class to write statements of their personal assessment and educational goals at the beginning of the semester. It has been found that a discussion of these statements can be of value to both teachers and students. (CFM)

In considering the aims or purposes of education in America today, this reflective discussion first reviews the aims of education since the founding of the United States, as well as those antecedent aims in the history of the Western education experience. An overview of changing trends in educational objectives illuminates the gradual development…

Based on a paper read to the 1967 meeting of the American Orthopsychiatry Association.