The paper was written for someone who wishes to develop and introduce the Human Potential Seminar in a community college setting. The first phase of the paper deals with Prince George's Community College's first experience with Human Potential and how it trained its staff, got the seminar transferrable to four-year colleges and worked it into the…

Author states that "...potential /of lifelong education in the arts/ for helping to add to and define meaning in human life would be vastly expanded if it...were treated as a basic skill in constant need of refurbishing." (Author/RW)

This paper describes the philosophy and development of the Extracurricular Centres for Highly Gifted Children in Transvaal, South Africa. The centers' concepts of "gifted" and "highly gifted" are defined, and characteristics of gifted children are listed. The centers offer enrichment and acceleration classes in subjects outside…

This monograph offers a rationale for including affective programs in middle schools and outlines one such program. This "homeroom program" is based on the generally accepted idea that young adolescents need to develop emotionally and socially as well as intellectually. These students have a need to understand themselves and others and…

Universal Studies, a study program designed to help students develop emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually, is described. Development of the personality and character of the individual is emphasized, as are innovation, creativity, individualized instruction, independent learning, and realizing human potential. These goals are characterized…

The guidebook is designed to help school districts plan humanistic education programs. Humanistic education is defined as a commitment to education and practice in which the teaching/learning process emphasizes the individual's freedom, value, dignity, and integrity. Humanistic education aims to develop the learner's potentials, help students to…

Although designed to assist vocational, technical, and industrial arts educators in the understanding, development, and implementation of a comprehensive affective education program, this teacher's manual is adaptable to other areas and levels of education. Six chapters comprise the manual. The first four chapters introduce major strategies to…

Six papers on the current and future state of inservice teacher education are presented in this monograph. In the first paper, a futuristic approach to what will comprise an educated person in the years to come envisions holistic education with an emphasis upon service to humankind and realization of world peace. An examination of the fundamental…