Educational programs should give priority to experiences on which other experiences depend, to experiences that promote critical thinking, and that enable students to choose experiences worth pursuing and resolve value conflicts. (Author/MLF)

Reviewed are subjective and objective means of determining how to teach children to think and act humanely. The methodology and findings of a study about empathy resulting from students' role-playing animals is reported. (DC)

This report on the status of SEARCH provides information about its beginnings, funding considerations, case studies of project success, evaluation methods, and application and testing of SEARCH in a number of school districts throughout the state of New York. Project SEARCH is geared to humanizing education by making students aware of the values…

The Task Force is an organization that examines and provides perspectives on values in education and the teaching of values in Arizona schools. This document provides the discussions, recommendations, and review of Task Force meetings held in 1990 and 1992 and consists of two reports. The first report, "Teaching Values in Arizona…

Lists some components of effective education and describes a program that contains these components, the SYNERGY Project in the San Francisco Bay Area. (JM)

This paper describes a project undertaken to legitimize the role of affective education in the development of the "whole" child. The two major objectives of Project Self are: (1) to gain acceptance of the study of one's self as a legitimate subject matter for students and teachers so that self-study curriculum and techniques will be accepted as…

This bibliographic essay discusses evaluation instruments that could be used to evaluate the K-12 social studies program in Alberta, Canada. The author points out the difficulty of evaluating the Alberta social studies program because its objectives are ill defined and it relies heavily on values and the inclusion of the affective domain. While…

Trained in affective methods, teachers in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) are helping students raise reading scores, improve comprehension, and feel good about learning. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this study was to survey alternative schools to determine what their English programs are like, what kinds of problems and successes have been encountered by their English teachers, and what suggestions they have for others who encounter similar problems. Questionnaires were sent to administrators and English teachers in a number of…

The purpose of the practicum was to improve specific supervisory skills of the administrators in the Newington (Connecticut) public schools. The practicum was also intended to increase the amount of time spent by administrators in various categories of supervisory activities. Treatment included administrative focusing efforts, a planned and…

Presented is the final report of the Affective Education Training Program, designed to help regular and special education teachers become aware of, interested in, and skilled at dealing with cognitive and affective concerns--such as the "classroom climate"; the merging of affective and cognitive learning; and human feelings, needs and behaviors.…

In fall 1989, the Nanaimo (British Columbia) School District No. 68 asked five people, selected from the school system and community, to evaluate the "Steps to Maturity" Program (STMP), a district-wide family life education and affective development program that has developed gradually since 1972. The evaluation team interviewed a large…

Having established that mastery learning works, researchers are beginning to investigate components of the system and theorists are integrating it with other recent trends. (Author)

Tattletooth was designed to help alleviate the physical, psychological and social problems associated with dental disease by teaching proper dental hygiene techniques and by stressing the importance of good dental health to the social and psychological well-being of the whole person. The program provided for the entire community with the provision…

This position paper states that it is the responsibility of Pennsylvania's Department of Education to make foreign language (FL) study part of the core curriculum and to develop well-articulated programs that make mastery of a foreign language possible for every student, in order to prepare him to meet the challenge of today's complex society. In…