This article discusses the need for man to change his ideas about his environment, accept the earth as a closed system, and take care of it. (PD)

Four elements of dehumanization in the schools which must be changed are described: (1) viewing students as passive, plastic, and environmentally determined objects; (2) ignoring the integration of students' feelings, emotions, aspirations, volitions, and cognition; (3) increasing bureaucratic authority and specilized disciplines; and (4)…

Criticizes humanists who consider computers confining, difficult to learn, and dehumanizing. (NKA)

Reviews the March 1985 issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political Science (vol. 478, pp.9-182) in which 18 authors describe and discuss various aspects of the problem of crowding in prisons and jails of the United States. (ABB)

Argues that technology in general and educational technology in particular tend increasingly to isolate us from the very processes by which we define our humanity. (JOW)

This paper is based on two interrelated themes concerning the problems arising from counseling at-risk youth in the push for world-class education and the unique cultural, social, and political conditions of each country and community. The first theme concerns guidelines for building relationships with at-risk youth. The critical assessment of…

Article cites the need for teachers to be re-educated for Human Rights. (GB)

The Humanization of Learning Mission is directed toward developing program alternatives which would accept as critical priorities for schooling the development of self awareness, empathic understanding, and the enhancement of social responsibility. (Author)

Extension programs are traditionally human, personal, and responsive in character. The challenge is to design, implement, and evaluate programs that maintain their humanistic qualities while meeting increased accountability demands. (SK)

Argues that the medical model and the current cognitive model in corrections are based on a subject-object relationship between keepers and prisoners. Suggests approaches to correctional rehabilitation that facilitate transformations in prisoners' lives by relating to them as subjects rather than as objects. (JOW)

The primary commitment to which the teacher should dedicate himself/herself is that of striving to be more humane. (RC)

Humaneness in education is a necessary ingredient, says this educator, but the urge to uplift each educational innovation as the ultimate answer to our educational problems should be held in check. (Author/RK)

Statistics gathered from class members can be used to discuss at least eight different statistical problems and concepts and serve to increase student interest in reading about and completing homework assignments in statistics. (JH)