This article discusses the importance of emotions in human life and how emotions can be brought under rational assessment and evaluated in relation to worthwhile educational goals. (JD)

Social skills are defined as those social behaviors, interpersonal and task-related, that produce positive consequences in the classroom. The case is made that social behaviors are currently taught informally, that some social behaviors are important prerequisites for academic success, and that these behaviors can and should be taught…

This article argues that public education has a charted course that needs more specific articulation by use of state constitutional education clauses and statutes. It attempts to define what benefit students are entitled to obtain. It concludes that only after this question is resolved can public education properly deliver the benefit. (Author/JEL)

This paper describes a high school curriculum and an alternative role for the school counselor. The counselor becomes responsible for developing curricula and programs that aim to positively affect personal development of students. Prepared for the APA Division 17 Symposium on Developmental Counseling Psychology, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

Discusses the difficulties, conflicts, and dilemmas of growing up in America today and the positive steps that educators can take to facilitate this maturation process. (Author/JG)

Evaluates contributions to Russian pedagogical thought of a pioneering essay on the history of childhood and the family in Russia ("Dva Vospitaniia" by Kliuchevskii, written in 1893). Characterizes the Betskoi schools which were based upon the philosophy described by Kliuchevskii as humanistic, but beset by pedagogical problems and…

Possible or probable conditions of leisure in the future are identified using the Delphi Technique. (MJB)

Cites ways in which elementary school science may foster the development of healthy self-esteem in children. (CP)

The article explores some of the relationships between the value of humane education and those of education concerning the environment and education for international understanding and respect of human rights. (Author)

Investigated the rationale for teaching psychology from the jr. high school level through college and compared the three principal contemporary approaches favored by psychologists. The author concluded that, of the three, only cognitive psychology provides a frame of reference in which knowledge can be seen as valuable in its own right. Available…

Notes that lateral thinking is represented by the person who is able to exhibit exploratory behavior, while vertical thinkers take the most reasonable view of a situation and then proceed logically and carefully to work it out. Much of education and teacher education in particular reflects vertical thinking. (Author/AM)

Presents a history of Dartington, a small arts college in England, from 1934 to the present. Topics include schools of music and art which influenced Dartington, college founders, educational objectives, staff, new academic structures, career awareness, degree requirements, success factors, and student attitudes. (Author/DB)

Defining "effective teaching" involves a general conception of education and teaching, a conception of a curricular domain and its priorities, attention to the possible conflict in values and priorities among relevant groups, recognition of "functional equivalence," a multidimensional approach to data collection, combination and reporting, and "a…

Responds to papers in this Quarterly by Colley and Smith. (JM)

The use of nurses or other health workers to assess residents' humanistic behavior is discussed. Since nurses and other paramedical staff members observe residents interacting with their patients, these professionals may be a valuable but underused resource in the evaluation of physicians' humanistic qualities. (MLW)