Designed to provide practical assistance in implementing outdoor learning experiences for youth and adults, this book helps professionals plan their leadership development programs and create more humane climates in a variety of outdoor settings. The book treats the three topics of self-knowledge, human communities, and outdoor-environmental…

Designed as a forum for views on issues concerning the humanities in two-year colleges, this journal begins with "A Call for Common Learning," in which Ernest Boyer discusses the goals of education and outlines six themes which students should study to understand themselves, their society, and the world in which they live. Responding to…

Physical education teachers should determine the affective responses of students to their physical education experiences, and should use the results of such determination to integrate learning activities in the cognitive, affective and motor domains. Assessment of the affective aspects of a physical education curriculum helps teachers to plan…

The working conference "Student Teaching: Problems and Promising Practices" brought together experts representing three different role orientations: cooperating teachers, school system representatives, and teacher educators. Under discussion was the student teaching process and the nature of research that might contribute to its better…

Each chapter of this clinician's guidebook addresses a topic related to preventive mental health interventions with children. The first section discusses preventive services in terms of need, types, four approaches, and rationale. The second section reviews ways to effectively collaborate with the school system and provides discussion to help the…

While recognizing the popularity of the Bloom and Krathwohl taxonomies, this paper focuses on their shortcomings and proposes new affective taxonomies. The Bloom/Krathwohl approach to curriculum design is built around intellectual ends and ignores self-development and social intelligence. This has become particularly pronounced with the advent of…

This resource unit, a supplement to the Family Life Education Curriculum Guide (see related note), was designed to help secondary education home economics teachers provide students with learning experiences focusing on self-concept. The unit covers five principle topics regarding self-concept and includes for each topic an overall objective,…

The purpose of this presentation is to investigate both the liberal arts tradition and the preparation of teachers in colleges and universities committed to following that tradition. Historically, liberal education has addressed itself to the task of determining and clarifying human needs and values. The major goal of education, as defined in this…

The problems and challenges of teaching adolescents are discussed in this collection of essays on middle school education. Part I introduces five basic themes that underly suggestions and considerations offered in subsequent writings. These basic themes--Community, Caring, Connectedness, Color, and Collaboration--are the "Five C's" that form the…

Reviewing literature and research, this paper examines the arguments in the debate over the importance or desirability of a general education component in vocational technical programs. After an introductory section tracing the history and role of the community/junior college, the increasing curricular importance of vocational education, and…

An alternative program for the preparation of elementary teachers, based in part on the assumption that the development of human relations is part of the total learning process is described. The program incorporates the following special features: (1) It concentrates most of the professional training component into three full-time semester blocks…

The use of nontraditional adolescent literature in the secondary classroom and teacher training for this usage are discussed in this paper. After outlining a humanistic approach to adolescent literature, in which students are taught to use literature to illuminate their lives, the paper contrasts such an approach to the teaching of traditional…

Current and approaching crises in man's inhabitation of the Earth are discussed and enumerated. Education is proposed as a method of alleviating the social, ecological, psychological, and eventual biological pressures created by man's increasing subjugation to technology. The emerging pattern of disaster for man as a species is delineated, and a…

The proceedings consist of the presidential address, papers, summary reviews of papers, responses, and minutes presented at the annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society. Papers emphasize several themes: (1) areas of educational theory and practice in which philosophers could be helpful, (2) suiting educational efforts to…

Attitudinal data were collected on 606 teachers in the fall of 1978 and 426 teachers in the spring of 1979 concerning the prospects of solving, by the year 2000, problems of energy, pollution, hunger, threat of nuclear war, and teacher potential for influencing changes for the better in world conditions. The attitudes of the two groups were…