Inclusion behavior refers to associations between people in groups. It recognizes individuals by including them in group activity such as getting acquainted, relaxing, or just having fun. Activities are suggested for use in the classroom or training session as well as in social situations. (JAC)

This model for facilitating the development of prehelping skills is a viable model of service delivery. If prehelping skills of attending, observing, and listening are not taught systematically, the development of skills involved in responding, integrative understanding and facilitating action become increasingly difficult. (Author)

The arts provide the only possible salvation from the sterility, depersonalization, and television-induced passivity of contemporary society. But the arts can only play this role if the arts community, the government and, particularly, the schools make a concentrated effort to develop a truly participative people's arts program. (Author/SJL)

An anthropologist identifies educability as the distinguishing factor of the human species, and insists that a loving attitude toward students is the element most essential in effective educators. (LH)

Values missing in legal education are discussed, the nature and importance of the communication process as it relates to the practice of law is explored, and a humanistic communication skills curriculum for a law school curriculum is proposed. A scoring sheet for a mock law office competition is appended. (JMD)

Although the general attitude toward Magic Circle was positive, there was sufficient dissatisfaction by students with the Human Development Program to question the appropriateness of the program for all students. Student attitudes, interests, and motivations can play a major role in the success or failure of these activities. (Author)

Much research has focused on the school dropout--the consequences of dropping out, dropout characteristics, and dropout rate. This paper takes a single community (Muncie, Indiana) and explores the reasons for the high school dropout rate at four different points in time: 1924, 1937, 1952, 1977. (KC)

Examines the role of Zarathustra as advocate and teacher in Friederick Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and relates Zarathustra's insights to modern education. Among Zarathustra's major characteristics are insight, ability to learn from failure, willingness to change, keen desire for knowledge, and acknowledgment of ignorance.…

Values clarification may be one of the tools counselors and psychological educators can use to help males determine their own value preferences. Research on values clarification over varying time sequences needs to determine if the spacing of values clarification strategies has an effect. (Author)

The study of literature is seen as one of the best ways to bring students through the curriculum to recognize and grapple with the moral dimension of human life. Such a focus for a basic course is especially important when students take only one literature course. (Author/MLW)

Advocates the use of daily journal entries as a vehicle for student expression to chart the process and progress of the course, "Facing History and Ourselves: The Holocaust and Human Behavior." Cites examples of student journal entries and suggests procedures for keeping journals. (JD)

Examines the acquisition of teacher skills which facilitate learning on both affective and cognitive levels. The successful teacher "intentionally" chooses between a wide range of alternative teaching behaviors when reacting to the situation at hand. Flander's Interaction Analysis System and Ivey Taxonomy provide information useful to…

Puts forth four hypotheses on the causes of declining Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. They are student drug use, the integration of ethnic minorities into the schools, teacher participation in collective bargaining, and humanistic education. (IRT)

Five possible scenarios for the future of graduate programs in the humanities are explored based on the economic realities of increasing costs, declining enrollments, employment trends for faculty, competition for scarce resources, and cooperation among various programs. (JMF)

Postulates that good citizens resemble self-actualized persons and that a goal of citizenship education should be to aid in the development of these traits. Offers nine examples of ways educators can promote good citizenship through humanistic education approaches. (CK)