A values exercise suitable for secondary school students is divided into three sections. The first section, an introduction to students, explains the concepts of and interrelationships between basic human needs, culture, values orientation, and global perspectives. The intent of the exercise, to help students appreciate how a set of value…

This teacher's manual presents affective education as a program to promote student self-actualization and human relations skills. Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Erik Erikson's life stages of psychosocial development form the conceptual base for this program. The goals and objectives of this manual are concerned with problem-solving…

This book for teacher educators and teachers emphasizes the challenges of teacher learning as the essential feature of education. It features a collection of narratives that incorporates the personal, emotional, and intellectual commonplaces of teacher learning. It focuses on the continuous process of becoming, as one teacher educator and his…

Parents of a 21-year-old son with Down's Syndrome address aspects of the cooperative partnership of school, home, and community, focusing on the dangers of labeling, the importance of communication, the need to express appreciation of the individual as he/she is, the value of full participation, and the importance of developing authentic…

The arts and the cultivation of informed awareness should play a more central role in classroom life than they do, and student teachers should be empowered to make this, to some degree, possible. Student teachers have to be able to spend time thinking through what a rational explanation actually means, even as they have to understand what…

The author examines the implications of too much specialization in the present school system. The division of courses into separate units with little relationship to each other is discussed in the light of the impact upon the student. The process results in assimilation of disconnected concepts and facts, and produces students who perceive their…

Written in 1973, the document describes the application of Jean Piaget's pedagogical principles to an elementary and secondary social studies curriculum: Social Encounter and Research Curriculum for Humanization (SEARCH). In Part I, it is stressed that SEARCH is the first innovative curricular program that strives to teach the major concepts of…

This paper presents in descriptive and practical terms a rationale for working towards openness in the classroom. Open education is defined as a humanistic approach designed to offer support to the children in their move towards self-realization. More than classroom structure, open education is a way of thinking about children, learning, self and…

Examines two approaches to teaching moral decision making: values clarification and Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental approach. Suggests both rest on insufficient theory of choice. Greater dialogue is needed between those who develop theories of morality and choosing and those who develop techniques for preparing people to make sound moral…

Discusses how some behavioristic techniques can increase humanism in schools. Describes activities to enhance students' active participation in the self-actualization process, including using behavioral objectives, evaluation, and grading. Defines classroom application of behavioral principles and suggests they encourage a humanistic environment.…

The article describes a multidisciplinary humanities program (HIP) for gifted and talented ninth graders in Houston County, Georgia. HIP is comprised of project- and activity-oriented units that lend themselves to the humanistic and thematic approach. (DLS)

The report summarizes a study to determine societal perceptions of the role of the public schools in providing moral/ethical education (M/E). Group discussions were tape recorded of both junior high school teachers and parents of junior high school students in Philadelphia, Memphis, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. Results indicated that both groups…

The theoretical section of this paper briefly suggests why a period of drastic social change demands a curriculum which is more relevant to the concerns of students and presents an information processing model of man as the basis on which to develop such a curriculum. A rationale for teaching particular processes (rather than specific content) is…

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the theories of B.F. Skinner and Carl R. Rogers. In sections 2 and 3, the author discusses the Skinnerian and Rogerian theories by selecting and explicating key elements and delineating the general, comprehensive, theoretical position of each. Sections 4 and 5 present each man's…

Explores the meanings and connections between two different identities: women (visible) and lesbian (invisible). Utilizes a series of interviews to examine the complex relationships that exist between individual identity meanings and those that are socially constructed and maintained within an educational system. Includes many verbatim comments…