The goal of the model presented here is to help Latino students develop the ability to function bicognitively, biaffectively, biculturally, and assertively. If these methods are used by counselors, students will have a better opportunity to achieve these goals. (Author)

Therapeutic potential for working with adolescents is maximized with the passage through each of the five checkpoints: (1) establish a relationship attitude; (2) isolate the known problem areas; (3) adopt a tentative position; (4) confront inconsistencies and unrealistic goals; and, (5) be a match to the adolescent. (Author)

Counselors need to develop knowledge of the death process and examine their own attitudes. Then they can assist the terminally ill person to develop appropriate coping mechanisms. They can help families to express grief, progress through mourning, and restructure the family system. Finally, they can develop death education programs. (Author)

An informal assessment of ten years of effort to achieve pluralism and shared values in schools. (Author/MLF)

Project Aware represents an attempt to develop a human relations program for elementary school. The major purpose is to facilitate development of interpersonal understanding and problem-solving skills in children 5 to 11 years of age through group discussions and enrichment activities in language arts, social studies, art, music, and reading.…

Criticizes Arthur W. Combs's "Teacher Education: The Person in the Process," published in the April 1978 issue of this journal, and submits that teacher education is a process of developing highly trained and skilled professionals and that the procedure should be well-planned and designed, with specific outcomes produced. (Author/MLF)

Self-instructional materials foster humanistic instruction and encourage students to become independent, industrious, and committed learners. (DD)

Pre- and post-student teaching scores of student teachers in secondary education were compared in terms of a continuum of humanistic to custodial ideology of pupil control. It was found that student teachers became significantly more custodial after student teaching and that males were more custodial than females both before and after student…

The methods for teaching literacy must employ joy, inquiry, openness, and appreciation of difference or the literacy achieved will be rote, mechanical and subservient to rules and order. (DD)

Social studies educators in the coming years should concentrate on the humanizing elements of the curriculum to ensure that programs are social and humane. (MM)

Examined effect of program designed to teach self-regulation through relaxation training in 69 high school students. Relaxation training for 10 minutes was found to increase typing achievement of students significantly more than did traditional instruction without relaxation training. (Author/NB)

Discusses genocide as an historical problem. Focusing on twentieth-century events such as the Holocaust and the Armenian and Cambodian genocides. Assesses the values of the United Nations Genocide Treaty. Calls for world vigilance to prevent future tragedies. (GEA)

Describes how to use children's literature to teach about multiethnicity. Shows webbing activity diagrams and provides examples of children's books which fit the webbing categories. (JDH)

In spite of the criticism of humanism in public schools, the fact remains that humanism is a basic and vital part of modern education. Principles of humanism that are significant for today's education are outlined and examined from an historical perspective. (RM)

Correctional rehabilitation can be enhanced by affective education dealing with self-concept and moral development. Strong affective education programs can be designed using the ideas of Kohlberg and Freire in group discussions. (Author/SK)