This study investigated effects of dissonance and positive reinforcement as feedback mechanisms for altering the humanistic behavior of student teachers. The subjects were undergraduate education majors who were enrolled in a student teaching program. The student teachers were observed twice by their pupils using the Tuckman Teacher Feedback Form.…

How would your employees respond if asked to identify your management characteristics that lacked humaneness? The author provides a checklist to help you answer this difficult, thought-provoking question. (Editor)

Information science is presently a mechanistic discipline which needs to be humanized. There must be more communication between librarians and information scientists, perhaps through seminars and exchanges, to bring the advantages of computerization to bear on human needs. (LS)

Contends that if open education is to succeed, it is essential to move beyond the traditional curriculum. (Author)

Argues that the humanism movement is imperiled by ill definition, misunderstanding, and resistance. The author redefines it and calls for "real" humanists to advance the cause. (Author)

It is proposed that the question of humanizing the future is mainly a question of humanizing work and that it can be attained by (1) exploring the nature and meaning of work to man and by (2) studying, redesigning, and redirecting technology. (Author/EA)

This article contrasts the view of lifelong learning posed by the human capital discourse with Freire's understanding of education as a lifelong journey toward personal growth and social transformation. Rather than reducing learners to objects of economic globalization, Freire's pedagogy considers students as political participants who actively…

Almost since its inception, the word "dehumanization" has caused apprehension, especially as the words relate to educational technology. This paper is a brief analysis of educational technology's critics from the late 1950s through present time; it also serves as a study of how their rhetoric has affected the structure of elementary and…

Advocates return of collegiate debating to public forum format. (CH)

To further comprehend the roles of curriculum, instruction, and objectives -- those conceptualizations of the educational experience -- it is necessary to begin a systematic search of inner, human experience. (JH)

A leader in the field of education will be a man or a woman who has reflected and who continues to reflect on the values inherent in human life and on what constitutes the "good life." The principal as leader will challenge both teachers and students to seek their vision of human value and to engage in a dialogic search for truth. (Author)

Educators and computer scientists have the obligation to humanize students' images of the computer. This can be achieved if students can be brought to realize that computers can be viewed as extensions of the human brain, making possible otherwise inconceivable human advances. Students should be shown that these machines can perform functions…

Knowledge about computer hardware is growing in importance for the humanist because of the increasing impact of small personal computers. A basic knowledge of hardware need not be either difficult to acquire or too technical to be useful. The informed scholar can contribute greatly to the humanization of computer systems. (CMV)