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Cowperthwaite, Gordon – 1981
At Sinclair Community College (SCC) in Dayton, Ohio, a series of holistic education courses, called Education for Work/Life Actualization, was designed to offer students new skills for the development of self-esteem, empathy, creativity, intuition, centeredness, clarity of values, communication, nutrition, and preventative self-help health care.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Courses, Creative Development
Peer reviewedRuiz, Nadeen T.; Figueroa, Richard A. – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Describes a longitudinal research project to introduce holistic-constructivistic pedagogy into bilingual special education classrooms. The authors report the process of teacher change as teachers shifted from a medical model to a contextual-performance model for viewing abilities and disabilities, the changes in students' attitudes toward reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
