Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Nine of the Quality Education Program (regarding student understanding of human accomplishment) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

Discusses assumptions underlying human need for privacy. Provides case studies and teaching strategies related to privacy, constitutional principles, legal cases, and decision making. Strategies include role playing, class discussion, writing, and art projects. (KC)

Handicapped people do not want to be hired because they are handicapped, nor denied a job because of their handicapping condition. They want an equal chance to demonstrate their abilities and to live up to their potential. (JD)

Three major barriers blocking the delivery of cultural appreciation and participation opportunities to the disabled are lack of trained personnel, architectural barriers, and negative attitudes toward the handicapped. (JD)

The author, an adult educator, evaluates the Tanzanian literacy campaign in terms of the personal and qualitative effects of literacy on eight representative new literates through the participants' own perceptions, using the anthropocentric approach based on the dialog method. (MF)

While it is important to understand and accept one's own ethnic and cultural background, it is more important to aspire to personal excellence and achievement. (JD)

The question of "rights" is crucial to any group of institutionalized people as they feel they have lost their freedom. This group was developed to meet the needs of some angry, aggressive, acting out residents in the facility. It is clear that this discussion tapped some deep-rooted feelings and fears. (Author)

Moral education does not consist of the transmission of fixed values but in confronting students with genuine and difficult ethical conflicts to be resolved by judgments based on wide concepts of moral justice as applied to all members of society. (JD)

Buckminster Fuller looks at the world before 5,000,000 B.C., in 1900, in 1975 and in 2000 A.D. (RW)

"Transformational Professional Learning" is a periodically published e-newsletter designed to influence what educational leaders think, say, and do to improve teaching and learning by promoting deep understanding of important issues, the transformation of beliefs and assumptions, and a stream of powerful goal-focused actions. There are two…

The development of effective public policy regarding career counseling requires a close connection with counseling process issues. This paper focuses on three aspects of the counseling process which have major implications for policy: (1) problem definition; (2) the dignity of the person; and (3) the importance of imagination, creativity, and…

The Student Rights Strategy is a strategy for providing high school people with humanizing experience. (Author)

Presented at the twelfth assembly of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, Washington, D.C. (MS)

Compares classroom practices of 20 years ago to those of today and points out that though we know more now, our techniques have not changed much. Suggests that behavior problems may result from insensitive instruction. (RW)