A Non-fiction short story .

Humanistic psychologists now embrace many of the same principles which served as the basis for Piaget's theory. These same theories were described earlier by John Locke and Immanuel Kant, and were the basis of the new "Humanism" movement in Germany in the 18th century. If one considers humanistic psychology as a kind of culmination of…

The many problems presented by the nature of man and in studying man are the focus of this paper which attempts to place these problems in perspective in terms of the past and future. The enigma facing man, that man must study man, is related in an introduction. Freud's, Adler's, and Jung's developments in the study of the nature of man are…

"Ecology and Human Values" is an interdisciplinary course designed for senior year high school students in social studies and/or science. Its main thrust is the investigation of human values as they relate to the environment, although rooted in the natural sciences as a means of understanding the complexities inherent in the environment. Use is…

This is the second in a two volume set (see also SE 013 455) which displays what the people at the Earth Science Teacher Preparation Project (ESTPP) value about learning, learners, themselves, and their role in helping learners. It records, mainly in their own words, how some people in colleges and secondary schools feel about education and how…

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Nine of the Quality Education Program (regarding student understanding of human accomplishment) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

Discusses assumptions underlying human need for privacy. Provides case studies and teaching strategies related to privacy, constitutional principles, legal cases, and decision making. Strategies include role playing, class discussion, writing, and art projects. (KC)

Handicapped people do not want to be hired because they are handicapped, nor denied a job because of their handicapping condition. They want an equal chance to demonstrate their abilities and to live up to their potential. (JD)

Three major barriers blocking the delivery of cultural appreciation and participation opportunities to the disabled are lack of trained personnel, architectural barriers, and negative attitudes toward the handicapped. (JD)

The author, an adult educator, evaluates the Tanzanian literacy campaign in terms of the personal and qualitative effects of literacy on eight representative new literates through the participants' own perceptions, using the anthropocentric approach based on the dialog method. (MF)

While it is important to understand and accept one's own ethnic and cultural background, it is more important to aspire to personal excellence and achievement. (JD)

The question of "rights" is crucial to any group of institutionalized people as they feel they have lost their freedom. This group was developed to meet the needs of some angry, aggressive, acting out residents in the facility. It is clear that this discussion tapped some deep-rooted feelings and fears. (Author)

Moral education does not consist of the transmission of fixed values but in confronting students with genuine and difficult ethical conflicts to be resolved by judgments based on wide concepts of moral justice as applied to all members of society. (JD)

Buckminster Fuller looks at the world before 5,000,000 B.C., in 1900, in 1975 and in 2000 A.D. (RW)

"Transformational Professional Learning" is a periodically published e-newsletter designed to influence what educational leaders think, say, and do to improve teaching and learning by promoting deep understanding of important issues, the transformation of beliefs and assumptions, and a stream of powerful goal-focused actions. There are two…