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Foshay, Wellesley R. – 1974
According to Wellesley A. Foshay, in order to achieve a humane curriculum subject matter and each experience must be responsive to the human condition in the context of all pedagogical intentions of the teacher. Six classes of experience--intellectual, emotional, social, physical, aesthetic, and spiritual--make up the human existence. Teachers may…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Patterson, David – 1996
This book focuses on the Wannsee Conference (Berlin, Germany, 1943) where Germany's "learned men" gathered to work out a "final solution" for the Jewish "problem." It addresses the issue of what had gone wrong with the education system when the men attending this conference (who had received its highest degrees) could…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Principles, Educational Responsibility, European History
Purkey, William W.; Novak, John M. – 1988
"Invitational Education" is a metaphor for an emerging model of the educative process consisting of four value-based assumptions about the nature of people and their potential: (1) people are able, valuable, and responsible and should be treated accordingly; (2) education should be a collaborative, cooperative activity; (3) people…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foundations of Education
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