Concludes that character development and values must be revealed in behavioral changes through learning which is the result of a change in the perceptual field of the individual and that this result can be achieved through literature. (RB)

This small booklet describes the Affective Education Program established in Philadelphia in 1967. The program uses various classroom techniques such as the problems, plans, and sharing classroom structure to foster student leadership and cooperation; using group roles, feedback, and processing; and being responsive to student concerns. In…

The paper is written in the form of a dialogue between Miss Theoretician, a teacher, and Mr. Practicality, a school administrator. The Teacher's philosophy can be summarized as follows: In terms of the whole child, there are four facets of personal growth: intellectual, social, emotional, and physical. Schools place too much emphasis on the…

Bibliotherapy, a humanistic approach to teaching, has been shown to make teachers more sensitive to the needs of children and to produce marked improvement in children's reading achievement. Books used for bibliotherapy (not for lessons or assignments) can provide children with reading that gives them greater insight into themselves, other people,…

A review of humanistic psychology literature by the author leads him to specify five major elements of a humanistic orientation. It is concluded that it is the teacher's orientation, rather than any specific technique, which is the significant determinant of whether or not the classroom experience will have a humanistic orientation. For journal…

Higher education is preoccupied with specialization and focused on the future work, career, and occupational competence of the individual. However, basic humanistic skills and hard moral choices should be as much a part of the education of a professional or scholar as are the knowledge and techniques of the discipline itself. (author/BB)

Suggests that teachers need practice in differentiating their responses to student behavior in order that they may enhance the effectiveness of their responses. The author gives some alternatives to the use of praise and also examines four types of praise. (Author/HMV)

Is higher education valuable? This article takes the position that higher education does, in fact, train students' minds to see more clearly how to make intelligent vocational choices. (Author/BP)

Presents the conflict between the liberal view of the teaching of English, in which teachers are responsible for the growth of each student, and the conservative view, which is meritocratic or elitist. (DD)

Greek humanism held that man is more important than his environment, that his duty is to make the best of human nature and, above all, the best of what is characteristics of, peculiar to, and highest in human nature. (Author/IRT)

It is time for a reconciliation among the competing factions among English teachers, including those in favor of humanistic education and those in favor of basic skills, and for the creation of an English for all seasons, immune to changing educational climates and periodic storms of public outrage. (DD)

The article describes an adaptation for nine deaf 14-year-old students of "The Magic Circle", an approach to affective education which focuses on personal maturity, competency and constructive social interactions. (CL)

In this article, the author defines humanistic intervention and discusses the results of his experiences in humanizing his interventions. (Author)

Examined the effects of selected group experiences from the Human Development Program (HDP) on the self-concept of sixth-grade pupils. HDP is a semi-structured, flexible and open-ended developmental curriculum in the area of affective education. Results indicate that HDP is a valuable guidance tool. (Author)

The use of literature offers one way of achieving some distance from the disturbing subject of sexual identity, enabling a group to deal with the topic with some degree of dispassion, and facilitating open and productive communication between men and women. (Author)