This paper presents an overview of the history of teaching in ancient societies. Discussion centers on the role of the teacher and the purposes of education in non-Western civilizations: India, China, Egypt, Persia, and Israel. The close links between formal education and social structure are noted as well as the influence of religious beliefs on…

This publication contains resources and activities that can be used to help elementary and secondary students and adults develop a positive self-concept. There are two major parts. Part I is intended for the teacher. Self-concept development is discussed, and how self-concept is related to teaching and learning is examined. Guidelines for…

This book is an account of one teacher's attempt to use English literature as a vehicle of self-discovery for both his adolescent students and himself. The first chapter, "Stumbling into New Techniques," relates some of the techniques used to encourage student writing and to stimulate an appreciation and understanding of poetry--to help…

Television has been used too much as a classroom aid--practitioners have been content to pervert the new media with old, harmful uses when the new media could be used to change education. If a medium can have as great an impact upon the communicant and the communicator as does the content conveyed, then the modern media are not just tools divorced…

An adult career education model emphasizes life designing and the junctions of a "complete" adult educator. The major goal is to insure student comprehension of what they are doing in their schools and what they will seek to do upon departure from their schools. (Author/LH)

This paper attempts to illustrate the usefulness of simulated test taking (STT) in personality and abnormal psychology courses. (Author)

Article explores the idea of viewing the teacher as his own technique and modifying the training process to include more emphasis on human relations. (Author)

An account of a workshop for Upward Bound students based on the study of human behavior, and aimed toward providing avenues for self-realization and self-understanding. A model for further units is suggested and references are provided for a described creativity unit. (Author/JB)

Describes an individualized Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) physics program which follows the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) format. The program has a variable-credit option, to provide flexibility to meet students' needs and interest. (GA)

Language teachers are asked to consider carefully what is meant by communicative language teaching. The communicative act is analyzed, emphasizing how individuals involved in communication are sharing their human experiences and how they grow personally as they interact with others through language. (22 references) (CFM)

Includes a description of a two-year utilization period of the "case study method" of teaching self actualization. (CH)

This issue on suggestive learning contains the following articles: (1) "A Time of Growth," by Kay U. Herr; (2) "Sophrology and Suggestology/Suggestopedia: The Same System with a Different Name?" by W. Jane Bancroft; (3) SALT-Quo Vades or Caveat Emptor," by O. L. Caskey; (4) "A Comparison of Suggestopaedia and…

Presently a contradiction exists between form and function in teacher education. Although creativity and self-awareness are voiced as goals for teachers and their students, teachers are all too often educated by means of lectures, a form which holds quiet attentiveness rather than intellectual aggression a chief value. In their own classes,…

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)