The problem-oriented biomedical framework shaping health care should be replaced with a more optimistic, collaborative, humane, goal-oriented approach for geriatrics and gerontology. This perspective uses a functional, open-ended definition of health and views illness and death as essential features of life. (SK)

Someone possessed of conventional thought processes shouldn't even try to discuss opinions with poststructuralists. Derrida, Barthes, and Foucault couldn't care less about contradictions. P and "Not-P" can exist comfortably together as true premises of an argument that for them is perfectly deductive, and in the name of whatever revolutionary…

Metacognition is a concept in psychology that refers to a variety of self-awareness process that help learners learn better. It grew out of the developments over the past few decades of cognitive models of learning. This paper presents a brief overview of these models and discusses their main features. It begins with a discussion of behavioristic…

A discussion of the role instructional television can play in nonformal, or affective education, in developing nations. (HB)

Presented is one individual's point of view concerning ways in which the science educator can combine the aspects of "openness" and "accountability" into the best of all possible worlds in the classroom rather than being frustrated by the demands of these two apparently contradictory beliefs. (PEB)

This article discusses accepting students as people and suggests some ideas for problem solving. (PD)

Suggests that true literacy is "a reaching out for understanding about the significance of human experience." (MKM)

Attempts to share an understanding of the humanistic perspective, i.e., a view of persons, an understanding of "community", an epistemological orientation, and a value hierarchy, and to examine the possibility of such perspective within the American cultural scene. (Author/RK)

Presents an interview with Carl Rogers regarding education today and what it could be in the future. Discusses topics including politics and power, free choice versus conservatism, censorship, facilitators of learning, knowledge children need in today's world, and the changing society as it relates to humanistic education. (BH)

A defense of the study of the humanities in light of the back-to-basics movement. (DD)

An invited comment on the array of ideas presented in the special feature on psychological education (School Counselor, May, 1973) as a new direction counseling is taking. (JC)

Secular humanism is not evil, as is charged by the Moral Majority, but is derived from early Christianity, with its concern for learning and human betterment. (Author)

Describes a program that uses Lazarus's factors that contribute to human growth and development as the basis for its program. The modalities covered are given the headings behavior, affect, sensation and imagery, cognition, interpersonal, and diet/physiology. (IRT)

This essay argues that the academic mind is leaning excessively toward the scientific model. (MM)