Practical courses such as typing, shorthand, mathematics, and vocational education should be included in every curriculum. So should the humanities. It is through studies of the humanities that our young citizens derive some understanding of man's past, including his moral and intellectual development. (Author/IRT)

Humanism and humanistic concerns--love, hope, and positive self-image--go hand in hand with basic literacy and back-to-basics. (Author)

The theory of human relationships as set forth in Thomas Harris' book "I'm OK - You're OK" can be applied in schools, says this author. He tells how teachers can help humanize education through the Child, Adult, Parent positions. (Editor)

Argues that the secondary principal's most important duty is helping his teachers to respond to student needs, and presents six guidelines for principals to follow in helping teachers. (JG)

Discusses the importance of community study in teacher education and suggests approaches to follow in cultivating teachers' sensitivity to the community. (JG)

Music and other arts promote celebration of cultural diversity and pursuit of our human, unifying factors. The arts offer the multicultural curriculum direct experience with the essence of culture at the feeling level; an active, highly motivating mixture of work and play; and an interaction with key issues of cultural difference and intercultural…

Describes how one school implemented a program to humanize schools. (Author/JM)

A social studies and science program, called Decision Making Man, for gifted students has been developed at Dunham Junior High School in St. Charles, Illinois. Its objective is to help students expand their awareness of the social implications of the applied natural sciences. (Author/RK)

The school must consider questions of self, identity, and awareness. Such a school would demand that administrator-educators consider themselves as individuals not only immersed in change but also active agents whose purpose is to move the society toward more justice, greater openmindedness, actualization, and efficacy. (Author)

In contrast to recent reports that view the role of public education as transmitting an accumulated body of knowledge, theorists arguing that education should also develop students' creative and emotional side are cited. The conclusion is that teachers need to learn to use the affective domain to promote students' cognitive achievement. (MJL)

Reviews the history of humanistic education in the United States and proposes that teachers can achieve the ideals of humanism by being genuinely interested in their students. The humanistic teacher is characterized by fairness, vitality, and concern for student welfare. (WD)

Humanistic management calls for a continual search for opportunities to achieve a synergistic relation between the needs of the organization and the unique capabilities and potentials of the individual employee. (Author)

Humanistic processes emphasize people, whereas bureaucracies emphasize impersonal roles. Although the two processes are poles apart, they can coexist in the same organization. The authors describe how humanistic processes can be implemented in educational settings. (MD)

Isolates three educational theories that undergird much of teaching and administrative practice and describes their application to administration and how they lead to rather distinct administrative styles. (Author/MLF)

Values education is a controversial topic in many schools today. A study designed to determine the effect of values-oriented courses on student attitudes revealed that students' values showed no significant change as a consequence of the course, and that adolescents' values largely reflect those of their parents. (TE)