By exposing the encroachments of the technological, highly centralized state on the individual, by discussing the struggle in the universities between authority and dissent, and by exploring the problems of an "air-conditioned," dehumanized world, teachers can bring new meaning to the study of "1984"--a novel which seems little…

As a result of personal observations of state institutions for the mentally handicapped, the author describes the tragic and inhuman conditions with vivid examples of specific patients and incidents. The account further explores the entire concept of human abuse which is propagated both by social institutions (such as the prison system) and by…

As a means of arguing the conviction that the teaching of imaginative literature in composition classes may prove an invaluable tool for the survival of human dignity, the following remarks were circulated among English department members. Although the relatively intangible benefits of literature and the subtlety of its processes make it more…

Black theatre has come a long way from the major stereotypes of black people established by white playwrights, but it is still trying to convey the fact that blacks remain in a kind of prison. The slow pace of black theatre in becoming art is obviously due to the long degradation of blacks, the tolerated injustice of whites, and the belated…

THERE IS A LACK OF THEORY AND EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING ADULT DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN THE AGES OF 30 TO 60. THE POSTULATE THAT THIS PERIOD IS CHARACTERIZED BY STABILITY IS QUESTIONED. EXPLORATION TAKES PLACE ALL THROUGH LIFE. ITS QUALITY AND FOCUS MIGHT CHANGE, BUT THE PROCESS IS THE SAME. DEVELOPMENTAL MODELS COULD PROVIDE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE…

Berkeley researchers and research administrators generally agree that the DHEW requirements and the campus policy of the implementation have resulted in increased protection for human subjects. Direct and indirect benefits of the requirements are discussed. For journal availability see HE 509 147. (LBH)

In examining the phenomenon of bureaucracy, the question is not of bureaucracy "for" humanity, nor of "humane" bureaucracy, but rather how much bureaucracy human beings or human endeavors can endure without losing their humanness, since it is beyond doubt that humanness remains unessential to bureaucratic control. (MJB)

Children are often capable of observing social injustice and of making moral and ethical judgments; the adults they associate with should understand and encourage this awareness in children. (JD)

The present paper attempts to provide a rationale for dealing with the ethical dimensions involved in protecting human subjects in educational research. (Author)

In Skinner's philosophy neither esthetic, religious, moral, or scientific experience or motive has any basis in the reality of the world or man's nature. (Author)