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Adamian, Annie S.; Jayakumar, Uma M. – Educational Forum, 2018
Guided by a critical race praxis for educational research lens, the authors worked individually alongside their students in a K-12 or higher education classroom, embracing spaces of tension derived from the push and pull between oppression and liberation. The authors explain how these tensions troubled the ways in which humanizing practices are…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Justice, Conflict, Institutional Characteristics
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Bjorklun, Eugene C. – Educational Forum, 1988
The author reviews various court decisions that have had an impact on the inclusion or exclusion of secular humanism in the public school curriculum. Particular attention is paid to one decision stating that secular humanism is a religious belief system for the purposes of the first amendment. (CH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Curriculum, Humanism, Public Education
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Gumbert, Edgar B. – Educational Forum, 1982
The author presents a critique of twentieth-century behaviorism and humanism as educational theories. He argues that the techniques of both lead to unwarranted intervention in individual lives and ceaseless human engineering. (SK)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Educational Psychology, Educational Theories, Humanism
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Brubacher, John S. – Educational Forum, 1986
The author argues that it is good that the university is secular, that it is open to the pursuit of knowledge in its broadest aspects. He states that whereas formerly humans were seen in relation to the world which defined them, now the world is seen in relation to humans, deriving its meaning from them. (CT)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Higher Education
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Dumas, Wayne – Educational Forum, 1973
Teachers who are frantically dissecting their curriculum materials into strings of behavioral objectives a yard long or who are under pressure to do so will find sensible advice in this article. (Editor)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Criteria, Humanism
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Reavis, Charles A. – Educational Forum, 1973
The contrast between the view of a distinguished theologian and the new humanistic psychology may shed new light on our educational predicaments. (Editor/CB)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Christianity, Clergy, Education
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Jarrett, James L. – Educational Forum, 1972
There is a particular affinity between the humanistic side of the curriculum and the conception of the whole child. (Author)
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Humanism, Humanities, Individual Characteristics
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Duncan, James K. – Educational Forum, 1981
The author argues that scientific study of curriculum and instruction must find a responsible way to (l) deal with the role of human purpose in education, (2) deal with the criticisms leveled by responsible humanists, and (3) utilize the perspectives and insights provided by philosophers. (CT)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
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Harrison, Alton, Jr. – Educational Forum, 1974
Article discussed an instructors' educational reforms and his attempts to develop student individuality. (RK)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Experiments, Humanism, Learning Processes
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Burton, Dwight L. – Educational Forum, 1973
Author tackles the basic problem of justifying instruction in a level of language usage that is regarded as elitist. (Editor/CB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, English Curriculum, English Education, English Instruction
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Smith, Philip – Educational Forum, 1977
Considers the problems of the liberal arts curriculum, concerned with the distinctive potential in human nature, and reviews career education, concerned with the practical possibilities of human action, as a possible solution. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Career Education, Concept Formation, Educational Objectives, Educational Problems
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Myers, Donald A. – Educational Forum, 1972
Author attempts to describe and clarify some of the components of the humanistic school. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment
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Giroux, Henry A. – Educational Forum, 1979
Examines the shortcomings of the two major schools, behavioral and humanistic, that presently dominate the educational establishment's thinking about developing course objectives. Proposes a new pedagogical approach which allows educators to develop course objectives that illuminate the relationship between classroom methodology and content, and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Conflict, Course Objectives, Critical Thinking