An analysis of the content, process, and purposes of common evaluation practices has revealed ten specific dehumanizing effects on participating students and educators. More humanistic, alternative evaluation practices have been suggested for each. (Author/BJG)

In order that English teachers may be important to themselves, important as teachers, and, through their behaviors, important to their community and to society, they must accept the challenge of being humanists. Ten characteristics describe humanists: (1) they revere life in all forms; (2) they have profound respect for the human mind and its…

According to this book of "psychological talks to parents and teachers," the American education system is a major social tragedy because it fails to recognize the potential of the individual. Individual differences are often ignored in the "assembly-line" approach to education and labeling children according to test scores is a way of dehumanizing…

Nine reports published in this volume study the uneasy coexistence of modern man and the complex society he has wrought. Man's apparent disorganized behavior is attributed to his inability to adapt readily to the charged pace of technological change. To combat the advancement of machine over man, he must, therefore, insist that moral and…

Some of the tactics elderly people use to sustain an honorable self-image, some ways in which society deprives aging people of dignity, and some suggestions for augmenting the dignity accorded old people in American society are discussed here. (Author)

The concept of dignity is developed from an ethological perspective. Special attention is given to innate, phylogentically programed behavior, the role of releasers, the importance of rituals, and the fact that "management problems" in institutions are often cries for dignity. (Author)

Without careful definition of "spiritual," hospice care will be little different in quality from that offered in acute and chronic care centers. Also discussed is the challenge to hospice care staff to defy trends in recent health care allowing staff rather than patients to determine what dignity means. (Author)

Having presented the opening article on behavior therapy, the authors now respond to 10 other writers' comments on their work by attempting to synthesize their critics' ideas with their own. (BP)

Student responses to a questionnaire indicate a popular hypothesis of human nature, derived from the works of Ardrey, Morris and others, which leads people to expect the worst from their fellows. To avoid negative consequences of this stereotype, these perceptions should be corrected in the introductory anthropology classroom. (Author/GC)

Even though Catholic and Protestant clergymen, in about the same proportions, tend to see the terminal patient as competent to make decisions concerning euthanasia, the two groups, strongly agree that neither the individual patient nor the state should be allowed sole responsibility for the decision. (Author)

A general theory of value is outlined to show that moral agency is necessary to human dignity and that liberty, equality, and fraternity are necessary to moral agency. These ideals can be implemented in schools and human dignity can be at the core of the professional ethics of teaching. (MT)

Discussion of Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Nursing Homes.'' (SP)

Unesco is deeply involved in the service of humanity; beyond differences of opinion regarding the causes of, and solutions to, environmental problems, the principal question is that of bringing into harmony man's diverse activities and aspirations. Essentially, this harmony may be defined as the reconciliation and integration of nature with…

A review of selected materials on Third Force Psychology,'' Taoism and Buddhism, three movements which the author feels are influencing youth in a more humanistic'' direction. (SP)