Presents the procedures, results, and conclusion of a study designed to determine if (1) a teacher using perceptual field learning theory can exert effective influences on slow learners toward a significant self adjustment and (2) the slow learners can learn as much biology as students taught by conventional methods. Subjects were 52 slow learners…

In Alex Haley's "Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965), Haley recounts the life of an historical personage of enduring controversy. Whether one reveres or reviles Malcolm, "X", Little, his is a fascinating story of lifelong learning. Rather than conforming to one theory, Malcolm's learning is well explained by certain theorists at certain times in…

Ten teaching strategies to develop elementary students' affective skills are presented as a change from teaching values in a prescriptive manner. (ND)

The purpose of this handbook is to help make teaching and learning more effective, interesting, and exciting. The book is one in a series which provides practical, classroom tested strategies, approaches, and student activities for the elementary classroom. "Developing Individual Values in the Classroom" contains definitions, value discovery…

While educational critics and reformers are asking schools to become the agents of cultural and social change, there are some teaching methods which can be used now, within the existing system, to help students help themselves to grow and learn. This book presents a wide variety of multimedia methods designed to make the best use of currently…

Explains how journal writing, taught with some direction, can guide students' writing and provide them with a sense of self-discovery. (HOD)

Timothy E. McCracken and W. Allen Ashby, English composition professors at Union College, are interviewed as to their methods, attitudes, and philosophies of teaching. They suggest that a student needs a sense of himself as a prerequisite for writing. (LBH)

This paper discusses bell hooks' book of 15 short essays, "Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom," which gathers hooks's central beliefs about the political purposes of higher education. The paper describes hooks' own lack of models for the kind of classroom she wished to create as a young teacher and her initial…

Discusses the need for improving the quality of relationships between people, and for concentrating on "more human values": observation, memory, curiosity, imagination, sympathy. Examples of teachers aiding children to communicate are compared. (ST)

Description of a course, A New Approach to High School Psychology,'' at Doherty Memorial High School, Worcester, Massachusetts

The child-centered approach utilized at the Center for Humanistic Education, University of Massachusetts' School of Education, is described; illustrated. (RD)

Four models of teaching methods are presented: social interaction, information processing, affective instruction, and behavior modification. The need for adapting these models to individual students is explored. (JD)

This holistic approach to speechreading instruction proposes: enhancement of the child's self-motivation, strategy-based instruction, an interactive processing approach that focuses on meaning and psycholinguistic guessing, bisensory instruction, and a hierarchical continuum beginning with easy, successful activities that gradually increase in…