This project attempted to design an experimental model for a teacher education program in the College of Education of the University of Alabama. The model attempted to identify students' concerns and problems and to test a novel approach for personalizing their programs through the inclusion of microteaching. Three distinct stages were included.…

The author shows that developments within curriculum have distinct analogues within various branches of the humanities and describes how an acquaintance with events in some of these branches may be most useful in a critical appraisal of the curriculum field itself. (Author/RM)

Describes the efforts of the administrative team at Minot (North Dakota) High School to improve school climate and solve discipline problems through humanizing education. (DS)

There is a revivification of national literature in Canada. Writers from Canada's varied cultures are producing works. One such work is "Obasan," which concerns the ostracism of Japanese Canadians after World War II. This vivid novel reveals the fate of those "outsiders" as a social commentary on injustice. (VM)

Business educators must make students aware of the pitfalls in the current move toward office specialization in the word processing movement. The adoption of technological methodology can cause a human trade-off in which people become mere agents of machines. Business educators must begin to emphasize the needs of individuals. (SC)

Some tips for humanizing school offices. (JF)

Author described his late father's contributions to education and especially his father's impact on the thousands of students he helped train to become teachers. (Author/RK)

Describes in detail communication games used with student teachers to make them more able and sensitive in classroom settings. (JA)

The model which follows was developed for use in monitoring and reviewing compensatory education programs in the Santa Clara School District. (Author)

Suggests that the merging of systems analysis and differentiated staffing offers a potentially powerful force toward more effective organization for instruction in schools and school districts. (Author/DN)

This paper discusses aspects of modern society which facilitate personal growth and psychological health, and psychological disorders which come about primarily because of unexamined rejection of societal norms. (Author)

It is argued that educational planners, who have largely concentrated upon statistical techniques, can learn a great deal from the futurologists in terms of the development of a philosophical and historical perspective on planning. (Editor)

Pollution of natural resources such as information is the result of inefficient use of those resources and misplacement of those resources after use. Information workers must make judgements or assign priorities to information to ensure its use to serve the cause of a humane rationality. (1 reference) (Author)

The process, not the instrument, is the key to developing successful contracts with students, claim the authors, who feel that contracting offers a unique opportunity to personalize and humanize instruction. (Editor)