Principles of student-centered high school English teaching are developed in which student-centered theory is applied to the content of high school English. According to these principles, self-relaxation releases self-motivation for self-enhancement through significant learning which influences behavior. The teacher is left free to play a…

The relationship between the pupil control orientation of schools and the personal development of students were investigated. Data were collected from teachers and students in 40 high schools. Results indicated that the more custodial the pupil control orientation of the school, the less inner directed, time competent, and self-actualized the…

A home economics teacher of educable mentally retarded (EMR) students describes their basic characteristics and suggests ways of responding to their needs within the regular classroom. (JT)

Considers a teacher's role and responsibility within the context of learning as a process of reconstruction and experimentation. (RL)

The problem of teaching behavioral science from the preschool years through secondary school is examined. The objective of a scope and sequence" chart is to help a child develop a causal orientation toward behavior as opposed to the arbitrary, judgmental, stereotype approach. (Author/JB)

Looks at some of the social, psychological and emotional experiences of youths which make them vulnerable to recruitment into cults like the Unification Church. Stages of adolescent normative development which predominate are identity struggle, idealism, curiosity, and disillusionment. (JAC)

Focuses on the contribution that values clarification can make to adolescent religious education. Summarizes the tenets of humanistic psychology that provided the matrix for values clarification and describes the substance of values clarification as expressed in its terminology, theory, process and strategies. (JAC)

The Statements about Schools Inventory, designed to assess how well a school is satisfying the needs of its students, has gathered evidence that alternative schools come closer to satisfying student needs than do conventional schools. (Author/WD)

Lacking stable values and a real role to fulfill, youth in our society feel disconnected. To encourage a sense of belonging and importance, our schools and colleges should offer students a more humanistic education and closer personal involvement with their teachers. (SJL)

Model of group counseling was thought to provide therapeutic atmosphere in which disruptive students have opportunity to gain responsibility for effective and active involvement in their educational experience and psychological development. Results indicate process helped disruptive students acquire thinking and behavior patterns to interact more…

Pulls apart the artificial separation between that which is scientific and the personal, thus providing meaningful context for the science classroom. Often discourse about girls and science has focused on how we can fix girls so that they can fit into the science classroom. Instead, the goals of science education must be reconstructed to include…

This booklet focuses on the following aspects of moral education: (1) teaching students how to live intelligently and responsibly; (2) holding high expectations of students; (3) organizing schools so that students increasingly practice living with an awareness of moral values; (4) energizing and encouraging students; and (5) providing good role…

These health curriculum guidelines were designed for teachers of secondary students. Four major topic areas are covered: 1) anatomy, physiology, tissues, systems, heredity, physical activity, and nutriition; 2) family structures, functions, and responsibilities; 3) values, stress, and drug abuse; and 4) the environment, disease control, cancer,…

The first part of this manuscript relates the initial efforts of a teacher who attempted to apply the value clarification approach in an eighth grade social studies class. The approach is based on Louis Rath's seven-part approach to values clarification which encourages children to choose and to prize one's beliefs and behaviors, and to act on…

As one in a series of eight articles written by different professionals concerned with Alaska Native land claims, this article focuses on passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and emphasizes the influence of political and economic interests on the legislative process. Designed to stimulate careful political/historical reading and…