This study examined the impact of affective education on elementary school underachievers who were referred by their teachers for behavior problems or randomly selected for treatment. The experimental subjects showed a greater increase in reading skills, and were more warmhearted, emotionally stable, venturesome, and vigorous after the group…

Affective education attempts to educate the emotions. Many available works describing affective techniques offer little guidance to teachers who wish to design their own learning experiences or to administrators and researchers who want to understand and analyze what's going on in affective education. This taxonomy not only describes some…

While recognizing the popularity of the Bloom and Krathwohl taxonomies, this paper focuses on their shortcomings and proposes new affective taxonomies. The Bloom/Krathwohl approach to curriculum design is built around intellectual ends and ignores self-development and social intelligence. This has become particularly pronounced with the advent of…

The primary objective of this guide is to provide a value oriented, broad framework, incorporating behavioral objectives prescribed by Alberta's Department of Education, for educators planning a sequential base for Senior high social studies programs. The premises are that a new social studies curriculum is needed in order to give students…

Developed from a project called "Curriculum Experiences for Relevant Education", this activity guide provides specific strategies for infusing career education into the regular school curriculum. Suggested activities for grades K-8 in math, science, social studies, language arts, affective domain, physical education, music, and art are…

This six-chapter monograph discusses the need for and the components of a holistic approach to education; that is, an education which teaches the student to function on the aesthetic and affective levels, as well as to master the behavioral objectives of traditional content area instruction. Chapter I presents a rationale for this holistic…

In 1976 a demonstration project at the Connecticut Wilderness School integrated a Confluent Education curriculum in Outward Bound type courses, to facilitate affective learning for a more meaningful and relevant experience. A review of Outward Bound literature identified the need for affective learning as a significant program constituent. Five…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for preschool and kindergarten students. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists. Major objectives of this program are to help children assume responsibility and build self-confidence. After a brief…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for the first grade. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to aid teachers in instilling responsibility and self-confidence in children. The guide presents topics and directions for 180 sequential…

The behavioral objectives, aims, and premises of this curriculum are similar to SO 002 500. This framework provides a sequential course outline for grades 7, 8, and 9, attempting to motivate students to investigate value issues with the aid of concepts and processes presented in an inter-disciplinary manner. The outline is based on the theme…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for grade 5. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to help teachers instill responsibility and self-confidence in children. The activity guide presents topics and directions for 180 sequential Human…

Project D.A.R.E. (Development through Adventure, Responsibility and Education), an adventure-based outdoor program, uses a feedback/evaluation model, combining a learning component with a two-part participant observational model. The first phase focuses on evaluation of the child and progress made while he is in the program (stages one to four);…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for the third grade. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to help teachers instill responsibility and self-confidence in children. Following a brief overview of the HDP and explanation of the Magic…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for grade four. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to help teachers instill responsibility and self-confidence in children. The activity guide presents topics and directions for 180 sequential…

The guide offers information about the Human Development Program, reviews literature on affective education, and suggests techniques for teachers to use when implementing Human Development Program (HDP) experiences. HDP is an affective educational program which combines theory and practical strategies for helping teachers improve the educational…