Postulates that good citizens resemble self-actualized persons and that a goal of citizenship education should be to aid in the development of these traits. Offers nine examples of ways educators can promote good citizenship through humanistic education approaches. (CK)

In two 1969 articles, Maslow considers the dichotomy between humanistic and professional education, between education for personal growth and education for skill and competence. He expresses uneasiness at the trend toward Esalen-type teaching, which emphasizes students' feelings and interests at the expense of instructional content. (SJL)

If individuals have an objectified, firm understanding of themselves as subjects who exist within a basic self-constituting process for knowing and valuing, they will discover that their authenticity as human beings exists in fulfilling the requirements through which this self-constituting process effectively expresses itself. Self-appropriation…

This paper discusses some generic humanistic principles and conditions of learning which should undergird a field based educational and staff development process designed to enable teachers in a variety of situations, circumstances, and schools to improve themselves personally and professionally. (Author/JD)

The author contends that a comprehensive approach to differentiating instruction for the gifted must involve values, feelings, personal growth, and interpersonal relations so the gifted child is free to realize his optimum potential. The paper describes some of the major adjustment problems faced by the gifted as well as some approaches to…

This chapter reviews selected materials in psychology that are related to the nature of man and his development and that are relevant to a humanistic system of education. Humanistic is used to indicate a concern with the learner as a whole person rather than simply as a disembodied intellect or repository of cognitive processes. In reviewing the…

Changes are taking place in teaching techniques as a result of the success of the Outward Bound program. From elementary schools to colleges, instructors and administrators are introducing aspects of the Outward Bound approach, which encourages the individual to discover his or her inner resources, strengths, and limitations. (Author/LBH)

The project's objectives include helping obese students understand their problem in ways that are relevant, interesting, creative, yet academic, and wiping out the pathetic prophecies and painful experiences concerned with obesity in children and teenagers. Concise objectives of the program's educational component and definition of areas of…

This paper examines the subject of "contract teaching", particularly as it relates to the field of instruction for physical education majors. Essentially, contracting for grades includes, "...an agreement between a teacher and a student at the beginning of a course as to the grade the student expects to receive and the amount and quality of work…

Motivation is vital to all learning with the possible exception of incidental learning. Home study may adapt motivational learning theory to its goals by considering basic concepts with related examples. First, the more advance reasons an individual has to believe in the value of home study, the more likely will be the success of educational…

Developed as part of a project designed to provide a synthesis of the literature and practice relating to the career education of disadvantaged students, this review is intended to inform teachers about research and techniques for motivating disadvantaged students. Section I discusses the nature of motivation and describes the basic human needs…

A combination of photographs and commentary, the book illustrates the methods of a teacher of disturbed children. Background information is provided for some children; their comments and the responses of the teacher combine to demonstrate student-teacher interaction and to indicate ways of fostering self development. (RJ)

Aimed at adult education practitioners engaged in graduate study, this book draws on the field of developmental psychology to provide new insights into the critical connections between experience and learning in adult education and training. Chapter 1 introduces the role of psychological development in adult learning, investment of "self" in…

This response to an article regarding the tension between talent development and personal growth in gifted education argues that dissociation of these two aspects is conditional, not a constant state of affairs. Contingencies and processes responsible for the dissociation are identified and ways to integrated these two perspectives are discussed.…

This book is designed to illustrate learning for the whole person, including attending to spiritual, biological, intellectual, and emotional dimensions. It is expected that learners will discover the meaning of learning from the heart and teachers will learn how to develop their own such learning and then to explore ways that they can teach from…