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Georgiades, William – Educational Horizons, 1973
Author stated that man must learn to live with man in order to create a humane climate in which education can fulfill its role as a developer of minds. (RK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Humanization
Brainard, Edward; Fox, Robert S. – Thrust for Education Leadership, 1974
Article concerned itself with what constitutes a humane school, the characteristics of a school's learning activities, a description of necessary instructional conditions, and how a school organization can maintain efficiency and accountability in its learning program and still be centrally concerned with people. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Diagrams, Educational Environment
Howard, Eugene R. – Thrust for Education Leadership, 1974
Article presented six of the most important characteristics of an open climate for learning. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
Weinberg, Carl; Weinberg, Lois – Behavioral and Social Science Teacher, 1974
This article defines the aims and goals of a humanistic curriculum design. The philosophical foundation and assumptions are integrated into the problems and issues of a real school situation. The achievement of the new curriculum is described as a process of complete overhaul of the current public school structure. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives

Combs, Arthur W. – National Elementary Principal, 1973
This article illustrates ways in which the schools are dehumanizing and suggests ways in which education can be humanized. (DN)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Shaheen, Thomas A.; Pedrick, W. Roberts – 1974
School district climate improvement is a challenging responsibility, and the options for the task spread across a wide range. This paper describes some options and tells how to begin exercising them. A first step is gaining a new understanding of school district climate and its components. Part I describes climate in practical terms and offers a…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment
The Principal as the School's Climate Leader: A New Role for the Principalship. An Occasional Paper.
Fox, Robert S.; And Others – 1971
This paper focuses on the principal's role in developing an improved or humane school environment for learning. It explores the thesis that the principal can be an effective and dynamic climate leader for change, but that he works within a participative process that involves all those who are part of the school environment and some who are not.…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Change

Hartley, David – Oxford Review of Education, 1995
Identifies the components of the current social trend, "McDonaldization", as efficiency, calculability, predictability, and the substitution of nonhuman technology for human technology (or control). Contends that market forces and mass production have imposed "McDonaldization," on the British educational system. Considers…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. Commission on Educational Issues. – 1978
Balance academic and maturational needs of students and maintain both academic standards and the quality of an expanding school environment are the recommendations of six independent school heads. Their responses in this book of essays are to critics of secondary education who propose (1) that more education should take place outside the school in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Role, Adolescents, Educational Change
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1974
The North Carolina State Superintendent's Task Force on Secondary Education studied the status of North Carolina secondary education and made 65 recommendations. The recommendations are contained within the narrative that discusses the topics of specific progress toward relevancy, unmet educational needs, conditions for optimum learning supported…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Dobson, Judith E.; Dobson, Russell L. – 1975
This paper presents and discusses a model of a comprehensive educational system committed to humane education. The value of a school experience is determined by the quality of the living experience that occurs in the school. This experience generally does not include at present a systematic realization of humane potential on the elementary level.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitudes, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research